General

These operational directions give a summarized overview description of the administration of the External Database function which can be used for example for an “alpha-tagging function”, i.e. storage of public subscriber names.

This function allows connections to external LDAP databases, and it is possible to look up information. The database name determines the MX-ONE functionality.

There is currently one database function defined:

• PublicName

  The PublicName function is used to get the name of a public A-party. This can be done on public trunk lines where the number of the calling A-party is received. However, the function is only supported for ISDN and SIP trunks. The calling party number is used to search for a name in the name database. The name received from the database query will be displayed on the called party terminal with name display support.

  Before querying, the received calling party number can be rearranged using the MX-ONE number conversion functionality. It is also possible to prefix the international country code and add ´+´ for national numbers if all incoming traffic in the same country.

  When inserting a value to a query, it will look for an ‘=’ sign and insert the value after the ‘=’ sign.

  The query response will insert the received data as name1 and name2. There will be 3 attributes to choose from, where the 1:st is considered surname, the 2:nd given name and the 3:rd a generic display name. The first two have the highest priority and the 3:rd will only be used if any one of the first two is unavailable.

For detailed information on parameters see the command: “external_database --help”.