SPA508G with 500S Sidecar & DND

[Help Desk]

Ok...I dont think there is a fix for this, but I wanted to see if anyone else had any suggestions/solutions for this.  This seems like a design flaw with the Sidecars for the 500S.  I have users who all have 508G Phones with 500S sidecars.  The issue is DND.  There is no way to differentiate between when a user is on a call and when they are DND.  I have disabled MWI because if you use the Watch feature, it will show when they extension you are watching has a VM waiting to be answered.  So the question becomes, how do you show the difference between when a user is away and when they are on a call.  The light is the same for both.

Thank you,

Sean

[Help Desk]

Nothing Cisco Forums?  Not a one?     

[mcasimirc63]

With DND you can't tell what their status is.  The feature you are looking for is called presence.  Presence is where people can see other people's statuses and that is only available with an application called smart call connector (UC500)  or unified call connector (ISR).