Specifications

Glossary

Automated software distribution: Software upgrades can be distributed to networked

PBXs automatically. Maintenance personnel are not required on site to monitor or interact

with the procedure.

Cluster element identifier (CEID): A unique number that identifies each network element

within a cluster network.

Element or network element: A PBX in the network, which is managed from the OPS

Manager station.

Home element: The element (PBX) that the user’s device is connected to.

Integrated Directory Services (IDS): This software application synchronizes the

telephone directory entries in the OPS Manager database with the directory entries in a

central corporate directory server. Integrated Directory Services is an optional software

application that is available for OPS Manager Windows for NT Release 6.0 and later

releases.

OPS Manager station: A MITEL management tool that allows you to maintain a network

of elements (SX-2000 LIGHT PBXs, and so forth) from a central location.

Physical location identifier: See PLID.

Plane A/Plane B: An SX-2000 system with main control redundancy has two separate

main control planes—Plane A and Plane B.

PLID: Identifies each circuit (and hence the device assigned to that circuit) within a PBX.

The PLID is determined by the system configuration. In the case of telephone circuits, the

PLID is a series of numbers that identify the cabinet, shelf, slot, circuit, and in some cases,

channel. For example, a voice set PLID could be 1 1 7 14.

Portable directory group: A group of network elements (cluster) that share a common

telephone directory in which the extension numbers are not restricted by the element that

they are connected to. PDGs allow users to keep their extension numbers if they move from

one network element to another.

Primary Node Identifier: See PNI.

PNI: A digit string that identifies a network element. Automatic Route Selection for the

network is set up to route calls to the network elements based on the PNIs.