Cisco Shell Schema Groups: Overview

To deploy your own existing dial plan rather than one of Cisco’s out-of-the-box dial plans, use the shell schema group to enable core functionality without deploying a preconfigured VOSS-4-UC schema group. The shell schema group provides a starting point for you to build your own dial plan. The shell schema group has no preset site default values other than Default Device Pool and Default CUCM Group. The shell schema group does not contain any default core schemas, features schemas, or country schemas. You can clone the shell schema group instance and tailor all other settings to your own specifications.

On the Custom Workflows tab, the shell schema group provides default workflows for the following registry events used to create customer inventories and associations:

  • addDnInventory - allows you to create DN inventory without enforcing any rules or constraints on the DN numbers
  • addE164Inventory - allows you to create E164 inventory without enforcing any rules or constraints on the E164 number other than enforcing the country code prefix for a given site
  • associateE164ToDn - allows E164 to DN number association (N to N) on VOSS-4-UC without configuring anything on Cisco Unified CM
  • unassociateE164ToDn - removes E164 to DN number association (N to N) from VOSS-4-UC without removing anything on Cisco Unified CM
  • associateE164ToSingleDn - allows E164 to DN number association (N to 1) on VOSS-4-UC without configuring anything on Cisco Unified CM
  • unassociateE164ToSingleDn - removes E164 to DN number association (N to 1) on VOSS-4-UC without removing anything on Cisco Unified CM

For more information on configuring schema groups and associating them with customers, refer to the Provider HCS Dial Plan Management Support Guide.