Inventory Site

It is important to understand that an Inventory Site is only an Inventory Site by name, not by type. An Inventory Site is just a regular site, and is no different than any other site, except that it does not have an Inventory Site check box, and is deployed exactly the same as any other site. It is only by convention that we’re calling this an Inventory Site and designating this site as the repository for lines to be shared across sites.

The Inventory Site is created from the Site Management > Sites menu. It requires an NDL and a Country, and requires a site dial plan to be deployed.

Note

There is no enforcement of configuration ensuring that, for example, only lines are configured at the Inventory Site and not phones. It is the responsibility of the administrator to ensure the proper procedures and conventions are followed as documented in this guide. Therefore, it is important to ensure a good understanding of how the Inventory Site is to be used, and how the Inventory Site configuration relates to the configuration of the “real sites”.

There are several caveats and restrictions that must be followed when using the Inventory Site as summarized below. Detailed configuration procedures are provided later in this document. For the purposes of this discussion, the term Site Group is used to describe an Inventory Site combined with the “real sites” which use the shared lines defined in the Inventory Site.

All sites in a site group must conform to the following rules:

• The sites must be configured with the same NDL and Country. Any site that has the same NDL and Country as the Inventory Site can participate in the same site group. In fact, the NDL and Country settings are what defines the site group.
• Shared lines configured in the Inventory Site of a site group can only be used by other sites in the same group, not in other groups. This means that shared lines cannot span NDLs, and cannot span countries.

Tip

If a line is potentially shareable, we recommend that you create the line in the Inventory Site, even if it will not be shared across sites immediately. The system does not support the ability to move a line from a real site to an Inventory Site, so to convert a line from site-local to cross-site shared, the line would need to be deleted from the real site and recreated in the Inventory Site.