Technical information

INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION GUIDE
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The first part of this flow diagram is identical to the normal (non-group) fax send flow diagram. Immediately after a fax
is submitted to the system, the system LNP is automatically run and if the system finds site or user LNPs, it runs them
in that order.
When a group fax reaches the Schedule Fax Attempt block, it is split into individual fax requests, one for each
recipient in the group. From this point forward, the notification mechanism for group faxes is different than the
mechanism for normal (non-group) faxes. The criterion for the Fax Done decision block is whether or not every fax in
the group fax job has either reached the maximum number of retries or been successfully sent.
Notice that the TNP blocks are shown in dashed lines. This is because the default behavior is to not run TNPs
against group fax jobs. The reason for this is that most TNPs email status for all failed fax attempts and a large group
job could generate lots of email. However, you can configure your fax server to run TNPs against group fax jobs by
adding the following setting to the VFXSCHED section of the $VSIFAX/lib/vsisrv.ini file:
group-tnp = YES
Group notify procedures (GNPs)
Group Notify Procedures (GNPs) are only run once after the entire fax job is done (not after each fax attempt). In
other words, this notification point can only provide notification for the entire group fax job (successful or
unsuccessful), it cannot provide notification of each individual fax attempt.
Receive notification
This figure shows the notification mechanism for received faxes: