As Professor Fox used to always say, "Be careful"......OTM classifies licenses in two ways. One is the Terminal Number license that allows a certain number of TNs to be administered over one or more PBX systems. A second is the Reporting Unit license that governs how many entries are allowed in the Employee Directory whether downloaded from the PBX, or added manually. These licenses are used for the Telecom Billing System module for running CDR reports. Also they are used with the General Cost Allocation System module for adding additional extraneous charges, such as cell phones, equipment costs and Internet charges, which can then be combined with your regular PBX phone call charges in a consolidated report. Most of the entries in the Employee Directory are driven by Directory Number assignments to Terminal Numbers from the Nortel PBX. This RU license needs to be at least the same number as the TN licenses. When using GCAS, you may be defining additional users and numbers(cell phone numbers or numbers from other non-Nortel phone systems)so you would need to increase the RU capacity.
As far as deleting TNs from the Station Administration database that you don't need, this gets tedious and time consuming especially if you process a scheduled Full Retrieval on a regular basis. Every time there is a full download from the PBX, the deleted stations will reappear and you'll have to manually remove them again. And how many licenses are the voicemail stations going to save you?.....24, 36 max? Splurge, spend the minimal dollars and get an extra 50 or 100 licenses and use the software the way it was meant to be used.
Mark D. Sikes ISI Telemanagement Solutions, Inc. OTM Support Services
800.326.6183 snipped-for-privacy@isi-info.com