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DMA Operations Guide Dial Rules
234 Polycom, Inc.
Edit Dial Rule Dialog Box
The following table describes the fields in the Edit Dial Rule dialog box.
The following table describes the Action options and how the system attempts
to resolve the destination address (dial string) for each.
Table 10-8 Edit Dial Rule dialog box
Field Description
Dial Rule
Description The text description displayed on the Dial Rules page.
Action The action to be performed. When you select some
actions, additional settings become available. See the
table below for more information about the actions.
Enabled Clearing this check box lets you turn off a rule without
deleting it.
Preliminary A preliminary is an executable script, written in the
Javascript language, that defines processing actions
(filtering or transformation) that are part of a dial rule
and may be applied to a dial string before the dial rule’s
action is performed.
“Sample Preliminary and Postliminary Scripts” on
page 236 provides some examples you can experiment
with and modify for your purposes.
Enabled Lets you turn a preliminary on or off without deleting it.
Script Type (or paste) the preliminary script you want to apply.
Then click Debug this script to open the Script
Debugging Dialog Box for Preliminaries/Postliminaries
and test the script with various variables.
Table 10-9 Dial rule actions
For this action: The system attempts to resolve the address as follows:
Block Blocks the call.
Resolve to IP address Tries to treat the dial string as an IP address, and if it can, assumes
that it’s the address of an unregistered endpoint.
Resolve to registered
endpoint
Looks for a registered endpoint (active or inactive) that has the same
alias or signaling address.
Note: This action employs the H.323<->SIP gateway function if
applicable.