Defining an ELA Class of Service

The following task contains instructions for defining a Class of Service (COS) for ELA. If you previously created a Class of Service for ELA when you created other system Classes of Service, skip this step.

Before you perform the following tasks, ensure that you have an unused Class of Service that you can define for ELA. To verify that there is an unused Class of Service, view the list of Class of Service names and verify that at least one Class of Service has an n under Modified?.

 

Note: The ELA COS can be used only for ELA mailboxes.

To administer a COS for ELA:

1. Start at the Administration main menu and select:

Global Administration
     Messaging Administration

The system displays the SSH User Authentication dialog box. Enter your login, for example, sa or vm, in the User name field and your password in the Password field. Click Login. The system then displays the AUDIX Command Prompt screen.

2. At the enter command: prompt, enter change cos COS_number, where COS_number is the unique Class of Service you want to use for ELA. For example, enter change cos 8.

The system displays the Class of Service screen, page 1.

3. Although not required, it is recommended that you change the name of the COS to be more descriptive; for example, enter ELA in the Name: field.
4. Write down the COS number. You will need it later when you administer the ELA server.
5. If you would like ELA to be able to distribute call answer messages, enter call-answer in the Type: field (under PERMISSIONS:). Otherwise, enter none.


 

Note: If you administer your system so that ELA mailboxes are accessible only by direct addressing and later decide you would like some ELA mailboxes with call-answer capability, you do not need to create two Classes of Service. Administer the ELA COS to be call answer, but administer the ELA mailbox extension only as a number on the switch if and when you decide to allow call answer messages to be distributed to the members of that enhanced list.

6. Make sure that the following fields are set to y: Priority Messages, IMAPI Access, IMAPI Message Transfer, Fax Creation, and Trusted Server Access.
7. Press F7 (NextPage). The system displays the Class of Service screen, page 2.
8. Enter the following information:
• 14 in the Retention Times (days), New: field. (This setting acts as a safety measure, should ELA encounter an operational problem and cannot send messages for a couple of days.)
• 14 in the Retention Times (days), Old: field. (Ordinarily, there are no old or unopened messages. ELA forwards old/unopened messages in the event service is interrupted.)
• 14 in the Retention Times (days), Unopened: field. (Ordinarily, there are no old or unopened messages. ELA forwards old/unopened messages in the event service is interrupted.)
• nufda in the Outgoing Mailbox, Category Order: field
• 0 in the Retention Times (days), File Cab: field
• 1 in the Delivered/Nondeliverable: field
• 6 in the Maximum Mailing Lists: field
• 1500 in the Total Entries in all Lists: field
• 32767 in the Mailbox Size, Maximum Length: field

9. Press F3 (Enter) to save the information in the system database.

The cursor returns to the command line, and the system displays the following message:

Command Successfully Completed.

10. Enter another administrative command at the enter command: prompt or click Return to Main.

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