
Do you know what happens when a BCM component fails?
Here, I found the Effects of Inactive BCM Components slide when checkig it for a customer. This slide is for BCM 6.0 and I believe it is valid for BCM 7 too.
Inacvive Component | Effects on the softphone | Effects on Hardphone/MTD phone | Effects on calls in queue |
---|---|---|---|
CEM Server/Call Dispatcher | Connected call is terminated | Connected call is terminated | Calls are terminated |
MRS | No on-hold music for a connected call. | Currently played prompts are interrupted. New prompts are played on available MRS servers. | The currently played prompts are interrupted. New prompts are played on available MRS servers. |
IIS | The current session is closed. | The directory searches fail until the other IIS has started properly. MTD will notify about the session closing and the agent needs to re-login in order to obtain full functionality. | No effect. |
H.323 Bridge | Calls traveling via the failed bridge will terminate immediately | Calls traveling via the failed bridge will terminate immediately | Calls traveling via the failed bridge will terminate immediately |
SIP Bridge | Calls traveling via the failed bridge will terminate immediately. | Calls traveling via the failed bridge will terminate immediately. Exception: internal SIP-SIP calls will stay active but no new calls are connected. | Calls traveling via the failed bridge will terminate immediately. |
Connection Server | Connected calls are not disturbed but new calls cannot be connected in the BCM system. | No effect. | Calls cannot be distributed to agents. |
Data Collector | No effect. | No effect. | No effect. |
Databases (CPM, CEM, Reporting & Monitoring) | All currently logged-in users can serve calls. All database related actions, e.g. directory, are unavailable for the users. New users cannot log into the system. | All currently logged-in users can serve calls. All database related actions, e.g. directory, are unavailable for the users. New users cannot log into the system. | Calls remain in the queue and are distributed to the agents currently logged in. |
High Availability Controller (HAC) | No effect. | No effect. | No effect. |
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