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Admin Guide > Configuring the FaxPress Premier
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Configuring the FaxPress Premier
This chapter describes the basic configuration required for the FaxPress Premier to be able
to send and receive faxes. This chapter also describes the configuration required for auto-
matic routing and integration with your PBX system and DID trunk line. For help configur-
ing additional FaxPress Premier Server Properties after the unit is operational see Setting
the FaxPress Plus Server Properties on page 145
.
Before using the FaxPress Premier to send and receive faxes, you’ll need to configure, at
minimum, the FaxPress Premier’s:
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Line Settings
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Dialing Properties
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Email settings
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PBX/DID to integrate the FaxPress Premier with your PBX system and/or DID trunk.
See Automatic Routing and PBX Integration on page 89 for more information.
The FaxPress Premier’s Email settings can be configured with the name of your SMTP or
Exchange server to allow your users to access their email address books for addressing
faxes and send faxes to email recipients as well as fax recipients. Mail server information
is also required for use with the Email Gateways.
About FaxPress Premier Line Optimization
Castelle’s Minimum Idle Lines parameter provides a patent-pending way to prioritize in-
coming fax jobs and optimize line usage. The FaxPress Premier by default always reserves
one idle line for incoming faxes, no matter how many lines are momentarily sending or
receiving. This limits the number of busy signals delivered, and maximizes the incoming
call connect rate.
The reservation of one idle line for receiving faxes is a configurable number that can be
set to zero for customers who only want to send faxes, or to a higher number for custom-
ers who want more resources dedicated to maximizing the incoming call connect rate (see
Modifying the Number of Idle Lines on page 103.)
This line utilization method relieves the administrator of having to predict a static setting
for the expected send and receive workload. The Minimum Idle Lines parameter controls
the acceleration in receiving resource allocation, and doesn’t require a static dedicated al-
location in order to do so.
This means that an 8-line FaxPress Premier, even with all eight lines set to Bi-Directional,
will by default still only use a maximum of seven lines at any one time to send faxes. An
eighth line will always be kept idle, reserved for incoming fax traffic.
If, for testing purposes, you connect only a single phone line to your FaxPress Premier, at
least two of the FaxPress Premier’s lines (e.g., Line 1 and Line 2) must still be configured
for the Premier to send faxes. Configure the FaxPress Premier line connected to the outside
line as Bi-Directional, then configure an additional FaxPress Premier line as Input Only,
rather than Not Connected.
With the minimum idle lines set to the default one, and only one FaxPress Premier line
configured, the system won’t be able to send faxes, even if that one line is configured for
Output Only. With only one line configured, the FaxPress Premier will not send faxes, au-
tomatically reserving that line for incoming fax calls. Modifying the number of idle lines to