Use the following checklist as a guide for administering the sites and topology of Messaging for the first time. In large organizations with specialized administration roles, the Messaging administrator typically completes these tasks.
Complete the tasks in the following sequence:
| Location | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | SMI page | Task | Single-server systems | Front-end / Back-end systems | 
|
| 1 | Sites | Setting site properties for the first time | Single server | Storage server | |
| 2 | Sites | Defining dial rules | Single server | Storage server | |
| 3 | Sites | Assigning an attendant number | Single server | Single server | |
| 4 | Sites | Adding additional sites | Single server | Storage server | |
| 5 | Topology | Adding the first application server | Single server | Storage server | |
| 6 | Topology | Adding additional application servers | — | Storage server | |
| 7 | Cluster | Configuring a cluster | — | Each application server in the cluster | |
| 8 | System Operations | Verifying the link to the AxC | Single server | Each application server in the cluster | |