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This chapter describes how to move around in the Cisco Software Release 4 telephony controller configuration tool.
To open the configuration tool, open Netscape Navigator and type in the URL for the configuration tool on your system. The URL will contain your server name (and possibly other addressing information) followed by \LSIconfig (for example, http://<servername>/LSIconfig).
After startup you will see the opening panel, which contains the Sites tab. The default is Net net before a site has been added. (See Figure 4-1.)
Select a site you want to work with or click on the right mouse button (from here on, referred to as a right-click) to get a popup menu of choices. (See Figure 4-2.)
The popup menus appear on your screen where your pointer is. Position your pointer to avoid covering something you need to see with a menu.
The Cisco Software Release 4 telephony controller configuration tool provides a series of tabs and popups to help you move around and work in the application. The tabs appear at the top of the screen along with the Save button and information about where you are in the configuration tool. (See Figure 4-3.)
Popups (data entry dialog boxes or menus) appear when you right-click.
Highlighting a TPx or access server name causes the related tabs to appear.
The following tabs are available in the configuration tool for your Cisco Software Release 4 telephony controller: (See Figure 4-4.)
When you right-click on an area or a highlighted item, either a popup menu of options (see Figure 4-2) or a dialog box with data entry fields (see Figure 4-5) will appear.
When you edit the configuration of a site or its contents, you are actually working on a temporary copy of the site configuration.
You can save your work at any point while editing a site or its contents (except when you are in a dialog box, which requires input first). Just click on Save at the top center of the screen.
You can also save a site by selecting it in the tree on the Sites tab, right-clicking it, and selecting the Save option from the popup menu. (See Figure 4-6.)
Saving a configuration copies the temporary tables in the server memory to a permanent place in the database.
There is no explicit Exit function in the Cisco Software Release 4 telephony controller configuration tool because it runs as an applet.
You can close a site you have opened by choosing Close from the popup menu (click on the site name, then right-click to get the menu). When you close a site in which you have made changes, the configuration tool prompts you to either discard or save your changes.
When you terminate your browser, abandon the applet, or otherwise end your connection with the server while you have a site with unsaved changes, the site is locked to other users. When the next user tries to access this site, the icon is yellow and a message appears stating that there are unsaved changes from a previous session.
The choices are to either discard the changes or keep them. If you right-click on the site, the popup menu choices available now begin with Reattach to Previous Edits and Discard Previous Edits. (See Figure 4-7.)
The Sites popup menu (see Figure 4-6) includes options for Build and Deploy.
Build---This operation writes a configuration from the database to a set of flat files.
Deploy---This operation copies the flat files to specific locations for use by the Cisco Software Release 4 telephony controller.
These activities are normally transparent to you.
You can only build and deploy a single site. When you select Build or Deploy from the menu, you will quickly see a message below the tab on the lower left side that says either Build complete for sitename or Deploy complete for sitename. (See Figure 4-8.)
A confirmation box displays after a build or deploy when there is a problem with the configuration file.
Posted: Fri Nov 12 16:21:13 PST 1999
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