Purpose:
Note: To migrate a network with
pre-MCD Release 4.1 software to RDN synchronization, refer to Mitel
Knowledge Base article 09-3070-00008, "Migrating to RDN Synchronization
via SDS," on Mitel Online.
Use this configuration form before you start sharing the
local network element with the members of its data-sharing network or
cluster. It allows you to
define the data-sharing scope
of a given form (see the "Share Form With" field described
in the table below)
identify which records to include
or exclude during a synchronization (see the "Share Records"
field in the table below).
For example, if you wish to share the Class of Service
(COS) form between all members of a cluster, specify "All Cluster
Members" in the "Share Form With" field. However, if you
also want to restrict COS records 1 through 10 within the scope, define
the "Share Records" field as "All Records with Exceptions"
to exclude only those records from the synchronization.
For more information:
For instructions on how to configure sharable
data, see
Identifying
the Shared Data. Then, to begin sharing the specified data with selected
elements, see
Sharing
Data.
Conditions
The SDS Form Sharing form can
only be modified by a
Root Administrator
(see
Assigning
Administrators).
The data-sharing scope of the
3300 Network Element Properties, Network Elements, Cluster Definition,
and Cluster Member forms cannot be changed, because the default scope
settings of these forms are required to support SDS.
If you share the SDS Form Sharing
form among elements that have different releases of software,
systems
with 3300 ICP Release 6.1 UR2 and later will display any new sharing
criteria that is not supported as "Not supported in this
Release".
systems
with software prior to 3300 ICP Release 6.1 UR2 will display any
new sharing criteria that is not supported as "Account Code".
If you share the SDS Form Sharing
form from a 3300 ICP Release 7.0 controller to a controller that has
an earlier software version (from Release 6.1 UR2 to pre-Release 7.0)
any new Release 7.0 fields that are not supported by the older software
are displayed as "Not supported in this Release" on the
controller with the older software.
If you share the SDS Form Sharing
form from a 3300 ICP Release 7.0 or later controller among controllers
that have pre-Release 6.1 UR2 software, restrictions in the Feature
Access Codes form may appear incorrectly. If you restrict sharing
of the Call Park and Call Park Retrieve fields from the Release 7.0
system, these restrictions are incorrectly displayed as "Account
Code" on the controllers with pre- 3300 ICP Release 6.1 UR2 software.
If you then save this Account Code restriction from the controller
with the pre-Release 6.1 UR2 software, SDS changes the Call Park or
Call Park Retrieve restriction to Account Code on the other controllers
in the cluster.
When implementing a new SDS network,
enable data-sharing for a limited number of forms in order to prevent
data from being overwritten in error. Once the SDS network is operational,
enable data-sharing for other forms.
Field Descriptions
Parameter
|
Description
|
Form Categories
|
Lists the forms by category.
|
Share Form
With
|
Identifies the data-sharing scope of
the form.
Configure a form with one of the following
data-sharing scopes:
All
Network Elements:
distributes updates to all network elements that support SDS.
All Cluster Members:
distribute updates to all 3300 ICP cluster elements.
All
3300 ICP: distribute updates only to the MCDs in the network.
This encompasses all MCD and MICD elements, including 3300 ICP
controllers.
Network
Group Members: this
option is for future use.
Admin
Group Members: distribute updates to all elements that
belong to an administrative group. Use administrative groups to
share data among groups of elements within a network group.
Resilient
Pair: distribute resilient user and device data between
a primary and secondary controller.
Member
Hosts: distribute group information and group member data
(for example, cluster pickup groups information and cluster pickup
group members) between all the elements on which the group members
reside. This sharing scope does not apply to network hunt groups
or resilient ACD hunt groups.
Hospitality
Gateway and Guest Room Host: distribute updates to all
3300 ICP elements in the hospitality
cluster.
Hospitality
Gateway and Suite Host: distribute updates to all 3300
ICP elements in the hospitality
cluster.
Application
Group: distribute updates to all elements that belong to an
application group. An application group is a group of elements
that have been configured to share licenses with each other on
the Application Management Center (AMC).
None:
do not distribute the form data.
|
Share Records
|
Specifies the shared status of individual
form records.
All
Records - All records are shared.
All
Records with Exceptions - Only select records are shared.
|
Shared
Icon
The

icon identifies
a shared form or record.
Forms that you have configured
as shared are identified in the System Administration forms menu (left-hand
browser frame) by the shared icon the next time that you log into
the System Administration Tool. Note that the shared icon indicates
that the form data is shared; however, you must initiate data sharing
from Network Elements form before the data will actually be shared
with the designated elements.
A form that you have configured
as shared will also display the

icon in the top-left hand corner of the form window. If you place
your mouse arrow over the icon, the sharing scope of that form is
displayed in a pop-up.
Shared records within a form are
also identified as being shared by the

icon. The
element must actually be sharing with another element before the icons
will be displayed beside the shared records.
If another administrator enables sharing for
a record, the system will not change the state of the sharing icon for
the record in your instance of the System Administration Tool until you
refresh your browser. You can refresh you browser by clicking the Refresh icon.
In the following example, the Admin Group Management, Admin
Groups, and Admin Policies forms are identified as forms that contain
shared data.
The following example shows how shared records are identified.
In the ARS Route Plans form shown below, Route 5 is not shared. Routes
1 to 4 and Route 6 are shared, so they are marked with a shared icon.
In the Zone Plan frame, Day Zone 1 is not shared. Day Zone
2 and 3 are shared.
SDS applies the shared data icon to devices
and groups as follows:
A pickup group is marked as shared
if it is a networked group. If a pickup group is shared, all of its
members are also shared, even if the member is otherwise shown as
local.
An ACD
group is marked as shared if its Skill Group ID Number is a resilient
DN.
The members of an ACD group are marked as shared if their DN numbers are resilient on the same pair of nodes as
the group ID.
User devices are listed in many
forms, such as the Multiline IP Sets form,
Single-Line IP Sets form, and the Wireless
IP Sets form. In all forms that list user
devices, a record is marked as shared if
the DN
for the record is resilient,
the record is sharing at the device
level, and
the resilient peer for the device
has 3300 ICP Release 6.0 or later software.
The telephone directory form is
also marked as shared if it contains resilient devices. A shared icon
appears beside each resilient device entry.
All
Call Coverage Services records are shared. Record exceptions are not
permitted.
In a shared form, you can display the sharing scope of
the form by placing the mouse pointer over the sharing icon in the title
bar of the form.