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DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2
Administrator’s Guide
555-233-506
Issue 1
April 2000
Features and technical reference
1538Tenant Partitioning
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Tenant Partitioning provides advantages to both the telecommunications service
provider and individual tenants:
■ Shared resources offer enhanced services at lower cost to the tenant, with
increased profit for the service provider.
■ The tenant has the appearance of a dedicated DEFINITY ECS without the
expense.
■ All tenants can have attendant services.
■ A trained, full-time system administrator can install, administer, and
maintain the switch.
With proper administration, tenant resources, including trunking facilities, and all
other switch endpoints can be protected from access by other tenants.
Partitioning tenants
The default for Tenant Partitioning is one universal tenant for the system. This
tenant, partition 1, is usually reserved for the service provider. By default it has
access to all facilities and any other tenant can access it.
The service provider creates additional partitions based on tenant requirements.
When deciding which tenant partitions to create, remember:
■ You can assign each switch endpoint to one and only one tenant partition.
And, you must pass each switch endpoint to a partition. For example, you
must assign each telephone, attendant console, trunk, and virtual endpoint,
such as an listed directory number (LDN) or vector directory number
(VDN), to a tenant partition.
■ Most tenant partitions are discrete, separate units. By default, the system
prevents all tenants, except partition 1, from accessing stations or trunking
facilities belonging to other tenants. However, you can change this default.
You can give explicit permission for one tenant to access another. For
example, you can allow tenant 6 to call tenants 9 and 16 only.
NOTE:
If a tenant has permission to call another tenant, it has access to every
endpoint belonging to that tenant. For example, if tenant 6 has
permission to call tenant 9, tenant 6 can also use any trunking
facilities present in tenant partition 9.