NEC ELECTRA ELITE IPK II, User Manual

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Duration Monitoring
SMDR can include calls of any duration, or only those that last longer than the interval you specify.
If you want to keep track of all trunk activity, use a short duration. To keep track of only significant
usage, use a longer duration.
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Extension Exclusion
You can selectively exclude extensions from the SMDR report. This ensures privacy for
high-profile callers. For example, the company attorney negotiating a merger may not want his
calls to show up on an in-house report.
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PBX Call Reporting
If your system is behind a PBX, you can have SMDR monitor all traffic into the PBX or just calls
placed over PBX trunks. The SMDR record can include all PBX calls (including calls to PBX
extensions) or just calls that include the PBX trunk access code.
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Serial and USB SMDR Communication
The system is compatible with both serial and USB SMDR devices. This gives you many SMDR
output options. For example, you can output the SMDR report to a high speed printer or send it to
disk through a PC’s serial or USB port.
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Trunk Exclusion
Use Trunk Exclusion to exclude certain trunks not subject to per-call charges (like WATS lines)
from the SMDR report. This makes call accounting easier, since you review only those calls with
variable costs.
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Usage Summaries
SMDR can automatically print daily, weekly and monthly call activity summaries. Each summary
includes the total number of regular trunk calls and ISDN trunk calls, and the costs for each type.
The daily report prints every day at midnight. The weekly report prints every Sunday night at
midnight. The monthly report prints at midnight on the last day of the month.
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Extension Name or Number
The SMDR report can include an extension name or extension number. Choose the method that
makes it easier for you to track call usage.
This feature requires a connection to the system using a CTA or CTU adapter, or through the serial port
on the Electra Elite IPK II CPUII (requires the USB driver).
(The LAN port only provides information through LAN-capable programs, such as HyperTerminal.
Printing of the SMDR information must be done from that program.)