This document describes how to configure one or more Avaya Breeze® platform nodes in a SIP telephony network with a System Manager that is independent from the System Manager that controls Avaya Aura® components.

This configuration allows you to:

• Access Avaya Breeze® platform snap-ins without upgrading your Session Manager or Avaya Aura® Communication Manager. You can run different versions of System Manager for Avaya Aura® and Avaya Breeze® platform. You can also run different versions of System Manager for each independently managed Avaya Breeze® platform cluster. 

• Manage different Avaya Breeze® platform clusters with different, independent System Manager instances. These may be independent of each other and independent of the System Manager that controls Avaya Aura® components.  Currently, response times on a System Manager begin to slow down when the number of managed Avaya Breeze® platform nodes exceeds its documented limit. By installing more System Manager instances, you can increase the number of Avaya Breeze® platform nodes that can be managed.

• Isolate management of Avaya Breeze® platform clusters to different sets of administrators than those for Avaya Aura®. For example, you can route calls for subsets of users through an Avaya Breeze® platform cluster in a lab for trials without allowing access to the Avaya Aura® production system.

In this configuration, an “Avaya Aura® System Manager” manages Session Manager and Avaya Aura® Communication Manager.

The “Avaya Breeze® platform System Manager” manages Avaya Breeze® platform. You can have multiple Avaya Breeze® platform System Manager instances if you want to independently manage Avaya Breeze® platform clusters.

Avaya Aura® Media Server instances that are used by Avaya Breeze® platform are provisioned on the System Manager that manages a particular Avaya Breeze® platform node. Avaya Aura® Media Server instances that are used by Avaya Aura® Communication Manager are provisioned on the System Manager that manages Avaya Aura®. In this configuration, each System Manager that performs media processing must have a dedicated Avaya Aura® Media Server.

For SIP signalling:

• Each Avaya Breeze® platform System Manager must have a set of "virtual" Avaya Aura® Session Manager SIP entities

• Each Avaya Aura® System Manager that manages Avaya Aura® Session Manager must have a set of "virtual" Avaya Breeze® platform SIP entities

This document is intended for people who install and configure Avaya Breeze® platform at a customer site.