Solved: Unity answers after 2 rings

smolz · ‎12-20-2007

I have hopefully a quick question; what dictates how many rings a subscriber hears before Unity answers? Originally Unity answered immediately, now subscribers here 2 rings before Unity answers and prompts for pin.

Ginger Dillon · ‎12-21-2007

Hi -

You can check the status of the voicemail ports from the Unity server. Right-click the Unity icon on the server's systray and select Launch Status Monitor. When this opens, click on the second icon, which is Port Status (looks like a phone with lines). Check to see if you have any ports in the State Column which show Busy with a high Time Count. Occasionally you may see one or more ports with 1000+ in the Time Count, indication of possibly a hung port. You can try to Reset the hung port, but I've found it more successful to stop/restart Unity, or if that doesn't work, to reboot the server.

Ginger

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Chris Deren · ‎12-20-2007

It is controlled on the CallManager (or other PBX), with late CM versions the Ring No Answer (RNA) timer can be set globally as well as overritten per each DN. In US each ring cycle is 4 seconds, so 2 rings indicates the timer is set to 8 seconds or so, which sound owfully low.

HTH,

Chris

smolz · ‎12-20-2007

How would I go about changing that and what should it be set to?

smolz · ‎12-20-2007

Why would it be the ring no answer that would control when Unity picks up? It is the user that is pressing the messages button on the phone and can hear it ring twice before unity picks up.

Chris Deren · ‎12-20-2007

Sorry, I misunderstood your question.

What version of Unity are you running?

Make sure all of your VM ports are registered, also when it finally connects which port does it connect on, is it the first one in the Line Group or another one?

It could be that some of the ports are stuck and CallManager is hunting through all of them until a good one is found.

Chris

smolz · ‎12-20-2007

Unity 4.0

How do I check the status of the ports? If I go to Feature->Voice Mail->Cisco Voice Mail Port----All ports show as status the IP address of the primary CCM

Ginger Dillon · ‎12-21-2007

Hi -

You can check the status of the voicemail ports from the Unity server. Right-click the Unity icon on the server's systray and select Launch Status Monitor. When this opens, click on the second icon, which is Port Status (looks like a phone with lines). Check to see if you have any ports in the State Column which show Busy with a high Time Count. Occasionally you may see one or more ports with 1000+ in the Time Count, indication of possibly a hung port. You can try to Reset the hung port, but I've found it more successful to stop/restart Unity, or if that doesn't work, to reboot the server.

Ginger

smolz · ‎12-21-2007

checked and none of the ports were hung. I did notice that when I called in, it always went to port 2, then 3, etc. I never did see port 1 answer. I tried resetting that port, with no change. I will have to schedule to do a reset of unity if that may make a difference.

Also, ran a Port Time Usage and for the last week(as far back as the logs are kept) there is no port 1 usage.

smolz · ‎12-21-2007

thank you for the help. Watched the monitor and saw that port 1 never picked up even after reseting it. Went to callmanager and reset it there and now everything is working again.

Thanks again

tom · ‎11-15-2010

Guys and Girl

I had the same problem as Smolz and reset VM port 1 and it fixed the problem.

Thanks Tom