Site Administration to Session Manager?

[smith1932]

Hi -
What are all the cool kids using instead of Site Administration for simple station/extension adds, moves and deletions? My sense is that administrative function should be somewhere in System Manager ----> Session Manager but I cannot find the right section to duplicate what we do in SA. And I don't seem to be able to add users so that they can log in to Site Admin.

My first exposure to Avaya was when we upgraded to Aura 7.1 so I'm more than a little behind the curve. Do we need to import a database from SA? Doesn't seem right because somehow updates made in Site Admin are currently taking effect.

I appreciate your insights!

[smith1932]

Maybe related - I noticed that the Session Manager Dashboard shows the Service State as Maintenance Mode. I ran the Maintenance Tests and they all pass. Should I set the Service State to Accept New Service or will that reboot the system, drop calls and cause riots in the streets?

[mlombardi1]

System Manager can be used to administer Communication Manager. CM needs to be added into SMGR as an inventory element. SMGR will pull a copy of the CM translations and periodically synchronize. Once that is complete, use the "Communication Manager" section within SMGR to manage CM using the GUI interface. The CLI has also been ported into SMGR under the name "cut-through." This is accessible from the Inventory section.

Myself, I use neither SMGR nor ASA. CLI via SSH client is fastest for me.

[smith1932]

Thanks for that. Between your guidance, a few videos and a fair bit of reading I have the CM as a managed element, the database synch'd and ASA-like functionality from Session Manager. All is well