How To Create Dial Plans - Cisco 7960G Administrator's Manual

How to Create Dial Plans

Relative DST Configuration
The following is an example of a relative DST configuration:
time_zone : PST
dst_offset : 01/00
dst_start_month : April
dst_start_day : 0
dst_start_day_of_week : Sunday
dst_start_week_of_month : 1
dst_start_time : 02/00
dst_stop_month : October
dst_stop_day : 0
dst_stop_day_of_week : Sunday
dst_stop_week_of_month : 8
dst_stop_time : 02/00
dst_stop_autoadjust : 1
How to Create Dial Plans
Dial plans enable the Cisco SIP IP phone to support automatic dialing and generation of a secondary dial
tone. If a single dial plan is used for a system of phones, the dial plan is best specified in the default
configuration file.
However, you can also create multiple dial plans and specify which phones are to use which dial plan by
defining the dial_template parameter in the phone-specific configuration file. If one phone in a system
of phones needs to use a different dial plan than the rest, you need to define a dial plan for that phone in
its phone-specific configuration file.
Prerequisites
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Procedure
Using an ASCII text editor such as vi, open a new file.
Step 1
Type the following to indicate the start of the dial-plan template:
Step 2
<DIALTEMPLATE>
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Ensure that your dial plans adhere to the following:
They are written with the understanding that rules are matched from start to finish with the
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longest matching rule taken as the one to use. Matches against a period are not counted as part
of the longest length.
They are in XML format.
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They are stored on your TFTP server.
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Specify which dial plan a phone is to use by specifying the path to the dial plan in the dial_template
parameter. Define the dial_template parameter in either the default configuration file or a
phone-specific configuration file.
To simplify maintenance and control, define this parameter in the default configuration file.
Note
Define it in a phone-specific configuration file only if that phone needs to use a different dial
plan than the one being used by the other phones in the same system.
Chapter 3 Initializing Cisco SIP IP Phones