
Avaya Site Administration Reference
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New Administrator's Guide Book
Voice system components
It is important that you be able to identify the different components of a Communication
Manager system. Below are the basic components with which all administrators should
be familiar.
Role of the administrator
Your role as a system administrator is directly related to the success of your organization.
When employees, vendors and customers are able to communicate quickly and easily, it
helps the organization increase productivity and performance by keeping costs down and
ensuring customer satisfaction.
As an administrator, you have three basic responsibilities:
Making sure the employees in your organization have the phones and features they
need and helping them make the best possible use of the telephone system.
Managing and administering access to private and public, local and long-distance
services. In other words, maintaining the connections between your organization and
the outside world.
Monitoring the security and performance of the telephone system. As a system
administrator, you are responsible for preventing toll fraud by seeing that hackers and
thieves cannot penetrate your telephone system and steal services for which your
organization will have to pay. You are also responsible for keeping both electronic and
paper records of your system configuration so you are prepared in the event of a
disaster.
Of course, the role of an administrator is much more than just being the "phone person"
or simply making changes to the telephone system. An important part of the role is to
solve communication problems and reinforce business policies related to
telecommunications that keep your organization running at peak efficiency.
As the administrator, you can help your organization gain a competitive edge if you
understand your phone users' needs. When you understand your phone users'
communication needs, you can apply the appropriate technology and create effective
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