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Cooling Overview
Number cooling allows for the automatic aging of numbers after service delete to prevent immediate reuse of a number. For example, if a user leaves the company, the phone number that was in use can be placed into a cooling period for a pre-configured number of days to prevent a new user from receiving unwanted calls on that number. This feature can be enabled per hierarchy level.
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Number cooling is enabled and configured in Global Settings.
During the cooling period, the number cannot be reused until either the cooling period has elapsed, or until a provider administrator has manually removed the number from the cooling period. Once a number has been removed from the cooling period, it will be reintroduced into the pool of available numbers for allocation to a subscriber, phone, device, etc.
A number cooling auto expiry schedule runs daily. This schedule polls the cooling Release Date field on the number inventory list view to determine which numbers have completed their cooling period. These numbers are then returned to the list of available numbers at the specific hierarchy level. For more details refer to "Number Cooling Auto Expiry Schedule" in the Advanced Feature Guide.
The Cooling & Reservation form (default menu Number Management > Cooling & Reservation) allows a provider administrator to manually add numbers to a cooling period (thereby removing them from the list of available numbers), or to manually remove numbers from a cooling period (thereby adding them back to the list of available numbers).
Enable Cooling
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Manage Cooling
Apply cooling
Remove from cooling
See also:
Number Cooling Auto Expiry Schedule in the Advanced Configuration Guide
Reservation Overview
The Reservation feature allows numbers to be reserved for future use. Reserved numbers cannot be allocated to a device or line.
The Cooling & Reservation list view (default menu Number Management > Cooling & Reservation) allows a provider administrator to manually reserve numbers at the selected hierarchy (Provider, Customer or Site) for a specified number of days. While a number is within the Reservation duration (days) period, it is unavailable and cannot be used by a device or line.
If the Reservation duration (days) period is left blank, the numbers remain in the Reserved status. Currently reserved numbers can be unreserved manually, thereby adding them back to the list of available numbers.
Manage Cooling
Reserve numbers
Navigate to the required hierarchy level (Provider, Customer or Site) from which you want to reserve numbers.
On the Cooling & Reservation form, choose Reserve from the Select action drop-down.
In the Reservation duration (days) field, enter the number days for which you want to reserve the numbers.
Enter Reservation Notes for the reserved numbers to describe why the numbers are being reserved. This is displayed in the Reservation notes field on the Number Inventory list.
Set Filters to determine which numbers will be included in the Available box in the Select Numbers area:
Select one or more numbers in the Available box and click Select to move them to the Selected box.
Click Save. The selected number(s) are placed into a Reserved status, and are no longer available for allocation to a subscriber or phone, etc.
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Individual numbers can also be reserved directly from the Number Inventory list view (default menu Number Management > Number Inventory) by clicking on the required number on the list view and then selecting Reserve Number on the button bar.
Unreserve numbers
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Show available numbers | Default: True |
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Show reserved numbers |
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Show numbers at/below hierarchy |
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Show numbers that contain |
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Show numbers expiring from cooling within the next (days) |
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Select Number |
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Control field for GUIR async behaviour |
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