outbound calls

[jpodplesky]

I have CME 7.1 on a 2811 with a four port FXO card and 3 pots lines. I have 2 dial-peers (1 local pattern and 1 long distance pattern) for each pots dial peer. I have an ephone-dn for each pots line and each phone has a button assignment for each ephone-dn.

My question is I want to be able to press say the button assigned to ephone-dn 2 and have the call to use the number 2 fxo port.

How would I accomplish this?                 

[jpodplesky]

A little more info. For incoming calls I am using exchange unified messaging which presents a menu to direct the calls to the desired extension. Basically my overall needs are this

xxx x140 is ephone-dn 2000 and is incoming calls

xxx x434 is ephone-dn 2001 and is forwarded from an offsite pbx for incoming calls

xxx x066 is ephone-dn 2002 and the line I would prefer to be the first line for outgoing calls

Or an easier solution would be to be able to define the order of the pots lines for outgoing calls

[Gregory Brunn]

Jack,

So I did this in the past with Trunk groups.

ephone-dn 288

number 3A11 no-reg primary

label CO Line1

trunk A2 monitor-port 0/1/2 

There is a little more to the trunk group configuration but you should be able to find the documentaiton for it if you search

Let me know if this was helpful.

[Gregory Brunn]

You second request is done much simplier

You would  use the preference statement in the dial peer with overlapping dial-peers.

So basically you  have overlapping dail peers that point to each port than you use the perfence statement to pick the first one.

I used to do this all the time. 

[Gregory Brunn · Accepted solution]

Sorry to confuse you even more but I meant to say I did this with duplicate dial peers. Not over lapping  Let me know if this works for you.

[jpodplesky]

Great thanks, I never thought of the preference number. Too dependent on my one remaining brain cell