Administrator's Guide

Station Hunting
Issue 5 October 2002 1827555-233-506
Station hunting options
You can administer the system to perform station hunting prior to sending calls to
coverage. The Station Hunt Before Coverage option on the System-Parameters
Call Coverage/Call Forwarding screen provides that when a call is made to a busy
station, the switch checks to see if there is a hunt-to station assigned to the busy
station. If there is, the switch tries to connect to the hunt-to station before going to
coverage. If the hunt-to station is also busy, the switch continues hunting down the
hunt-to chain. If all stations in the hunt-to chain are busy, the call goes to the
dialed station’s coverage.
Administration commands
When you remove a station, the system attempts to maintain a station-hunting
chain. Consider the following examples:
■ Station 1 links to 2 and 2 links to 3. If you remove station 2, the system
links 1 to 3.
■ Station 1 links to 2. Station 2 does not link to another extension. If you
remove station 2, 1 no longer links to another extension.
When you duplicate a station, the extension in the hunt-to station field is not
copied into the duplicated station.
When you execute “
list usage extension xxxxx,” the system displays all stations
that contain the station’s extension as their hunt-to station.
Table 62. Station-Hunting chain — Example 3
Extension State
Rings on
extension
1Idle2
2Busy3
3Busy4
4Busy5
5Busy3