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Posted By: gtrs Hunt Groups - 06/14/04 01:36 PM
I have a customer who has several exts in different hunt groups, two or three groups to one phone. All appr and ring on the phones. Every now and then some phones will be removed from certain hunt groups and it's not the same group all of the time, or the same phones. In order to fix this problem you have to go into programming and remove the phone that isn't in the group and add it back in, then it will start working again. In programming the phone still exists in the hunt group, but it won't work. The System is a MICS 5.0 XC. Any help on this matter greatly appreciated
Posted By: Kevin L Re: Hunt Groups - 06/21/04 05:33 PM
Here's some suggestions:

What is the distribution mode of the hunt groups set to:

Broadcast: rings each set in the hunt group simultaneously, calls are handled one at a time, other calls are queued. Once one call is answered, the next call in the queue is presented.

Sequential: Starts call at the first set in the hunt group. The calls are distributed by first free set.

Rotary: The call starts at the set after the one which was last presented, and distribution is completed when it finds an available set.

I would think you would want to be in broadcast mode. With the busy setting set to Queue.

From the book: Moving Members of A Group
Member order within a hunt group is important. The member order determines how a call is routed through the hunt group.

1. Press MOVE to move an existing member to another place within the hunt group. The display shows the member number followed by an arrow.

2. Enter new position number for the set.

Hope this helps with your problem. I think you really want to look to see if your hunt groups are set to broadcast.

Kevin
Posted By: gtrs Re: Hunt Groups - 06/21/04 05:56 PM
Kevin thanks for responding. There are a total of six different hunt groups, some are broadcast and some are sequential. It's not one group that is having this problem it happens to all of them. It seems to me that something is going on with a call to the phone or two calls from different groups to the same phone is causing these phones to drop out of the hunt group, they do use the dnd feature but if it's turned off on the phone, and the phone is already kicked out, the call will skip that phone, even though it still shows in programming that the phone is still in the group.
Posted By: Kevin L Re: Hunt Groups - 06/22/04 05:33 PM
This is a first, so I'm grasping at straws. Do you have a test system that you can set up to see if it acts the same way. Maybe if the test KSU works fine maybe you have a software problem. Seems odd that the phone still stays in the group, but is skipped. Like I said maybe you can try to recreate the problem on a test KSU. Just a quick question are the hunt groups attached to a CCR option in the voice mail?

Here is another tip from the book to look at.

Hunt group set numbers cannot be in a ringing group

Hunt group set numbers cannot be in a page zone.

It does not explain why those two things are important, but its worth a shot.
Posted By: AndrewPacom Re: Hunt Groups - 08/17/04 05:49 PM
NEW QUESTION, SIMILAR TOPIC...

Hello all, hoping anyone can provide some assistance with this:

Have set up a hunt group for incoming tech-support calls. (#290)
If no response, or all busy, want caller forwarded to VM - have set up a dummy mailbox (ie: no set assigned) on #237.

This works great internally - I can dial 290 and, after 3 rings, the call is forwarded off the hunt group, 2 more "rings" and I'm into that voicemail box as planned.

BUT, if someone dials in and is sent to the Hunt Group by the Auto Attendant (eg: they press 1 for support as prompted in the CCR, or press 290 - which I did to test) then, after the first 3 rings on the hunt group, another 2 rings occur, then the system responds with "The person you have called isn't available" and the caller bounces back to the AA.

I have to guess I've set up the dummy set wrong, but I don't see how when it works internally... also, if I dial the dummy extension (237) when AA answers the phone, I DO get into the right voicemail.

Obviously any help on this will be greatly appreciated.
Posted By: dtmf Re: Hunt Groups - 08/17/04 05:57 PM
Set up Forward on busy and Foward no answer on the dummy VMS box.
Posted By: JOHNYREB Re: Hunt Groups - 08/17/04 06:08 PM
Andrew what software version are you using? I ran into the same problem trying to use hunt groups on 6.0 and actually had to downgrade the software (at the time 6.1 wasn't out yet). It's been quite awhile ago but I believe that was the issue that made us downgrade. Don't swap on my advice just yet wait for some more insight, someone else may remember for sure.



[This message has been edited by JOHNYREB (edited August 17, 2004).]
Posted By: dtmf Re: Hunt Groups - 08/17/04 06:39 PM
Do you suppose it may be a Hunt timming issue due to it being in a hunt group? Just guessing.
Posted By: AndrewPacom Re: Hunt Groups - 08/17/04 07:57 PM
I am 99% sure it's CICS 4.2... having a braindrain at the moment.

I have the FWD's set up right (I think) otherwise it wouldn't work internally, or with a direct call (would it?)

... how about ... what if I created a VM box to match the hunt group (290) and made the hunt group roll into the voicemail extension (235)...? Might give that a shot tomorrow.
Posted By: AndrewPacom Re: Hunt Groups - 08/18/04 08:10 AM
For those curious...

Making the hunt group roll over into the voicemail "extension" (235) did the trick.

Used the mailbox that was already created (237) and assigned it to extension 290.
Posted By: JJ Re: Hunt Groups - 08/18/04 04:02 PM
On your Hunt Groups glosing program. I had same problem with KSU running 5.0. This happened every time they lost power or a hard restart was done. We put a battery-backup on system and recommended to customer to upgrade software.

Good Luck!!
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