Cisco Systems 1.4 Manual De Usuario

With Personal Assistant, you must have a supported LDAP directory installed, to meet network 
requirements. The directory contains records for each user in your organization, and includes 
information such as name, phone extension, e-mail address, and office location. This LDAP directory is 
typically called the corporate directory. Personal Assistant accesses this directory when a user asks 
Personal Assistant to dial a number by telling Personal Assistant the applicable name.

Personal Assistant also uses the directory to maintain Personal Assistant configuration information and 
some Personal Assistant user information (for example, the call routing rules and spoken name of a 
user). For this information, Personal Assistant automatically uses the directory that Cisco CallManager 
uses.

You can also use the Cisco CallManager directory as the corporate directory, but this is not required. 
Many installations prefer a corporate directory that is independent from Cisco CallManager, and 
Personal Assistant fully supports this separation. Or, your corporate directory might already be 
integrated with Cisco CallManager. See the 

 

for information on identifying the directory to Personal Assistant.

The Personal Assistant system configuration includes a setting for unique user name attribute. This is 
the name of the field within your directory that is unique for each user. Ask your directory administrator 
for the name of this field if you do not know it. See the 

 for information on updating the Personal Assistant configuration with this information.

Personal Assistant interacts with many elements in your IP telephony network. Some network elements 
need to be informed of the presence of Personal Assistant; other elements interact indirectly with 
Personal Assistant and do not require such information. You should have a fully-functional 
voice-over-IP network in place before installing Personal Assistant in your telephony network.