Paging Groups

A paging group is a group of extensions that will be contacted, automatically go off hook, and have an announcement message played. Polycom and LG Nortel phones are automatically configured to automatically answer a page. Other phones may need to be configured manually to receive a page.

The Paging Groups feature is accessed from the System Administration page by clicking on the Features menu and selecting the Paging Groups menu item. The following page will be displayed:

Click on the Add Paging Group hyperlink near the middle of the page and the Paging Group configuration page will be dislayed as seen in the following screenshot:

The following settings are available for configuration:

• Page Group Number: This is the number that will be dialed after the paging group feature code (the default feature code is *77). If the system will have many paging groups then start with double-digit codes and adjust your phone dial plans accordingly.

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