How to Create broadcast hunt groups in CallManager Express

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How to Create broadcast hunt groups in CallManager Express

CallManager Express supports three types of hunt groups out of the box.

  • Sequential hunt groups—Ephone DNs always ring in same order.
  • Peer hunt groups—Ephone DN's ring in a circular order picking up from the last DN that did not ring.
  • Longest-idle hunt group—Longest Idle DN gets the next hunt group call.

    Some users desire a hunt group that rings on all phones at once.  In the full blown CallManager world this is referred to as a "broadcast hunt group".

    To make CallManager Express emulate this broadcast hunting we can use Overlay DNs.

    Lets say our help desk has extension 4357( 4357 spells help on a phone touchpad)

    Plar to extension 4357 from your fxo ports.

    Overlay extension 4357 on to multiple phones

    ephone-dn 6 dual
    number 4357
    huntstop channel
    no huntstop

    ephone-dn 7 dual
    number 4357
    huntstop channel
    pref 1

    ephone 1
    button 1o6,7

    ephone 2
    button 1o6,7

    That should work.


Comments

Parallel hunt groups coming up!

The use of overlay DN's has some caveats, but works pretty ok in the real world. I'm happy to say that with the introduction of CME 4.3 (very soon on the ISR platform, still a couple of months to go for UC500), parallel (or broadcast) hunt groups will be supported.

Log in/out?

Hi

Is there any methode to make the login/logout funktion work? I really need this to work!

The above works but..

The above works but you lose the ability to log in/log out of hunt groups like you can with the sequential, peer, longest idle hunt groups.

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