Administer the Feature-Related System Parameters screen to support the Conference feature on your system.
Procedure
Type change system-parameters features. Press Enter.
Optional For 12-party conference, enable the 12-party conference field.
On the Feature-Related System Parameters screen, click Next until you see the Public Network Trunks on Conference Call field.
In the Public Network Trunks on Conference Call field, type the maximum number of participants with public network trunks that you want to participate in a conference call.
The valid entries for this field are 0 to 5, or 11.
Type 0 if you do not want any public network trunks to participant in a conference call. If you type 0 in this field, the Conference Parties with Public Network Trunks field does not appear on the Feature-Related System Parameters screen.
In the Conference Parties without Public Network Trunks field, type the maximum number of participants without public network trunks that you want to participate in a conference call.
The valid entries for this field are 3 to 6, or 12.
In the Conference Tone field, perform one of the following actions:
If you want the participants in a conference call to hear the conference tone if there are three or more participants on a conference call, type y.
If you do not want conference participants to hear the conference tone if there are three or more participants on a conference call, type n.
Click Next until you see the No Dial Tone Conferencing field.
In the No Dial Tone Conferencing field, take one of the following actions:
If you want a user who is on hold to hear dial tone while the conference owner adds another conference participant, type n.
If you do not want a user who is on hold to hear dial tone while the conference owner adds another conference participant, type y.
In the Select Line Appearance Conferencing field, take one of the following actions
Type y to activate select line appearance conferencing.
Type n to deactivate select line appearance conferencing.
In the Abort Conference field, perform one of the following actions:
If you want the user to stop a conference call if the user hangs up the telephone before the conference call is set up, type y.
If you do not want the user to stop a conference call when the user hangs up the telephone before the conference call is set up, type n.
In the No Hold Conference Timeout field, type the number of seconds that you want the system to wait while a user uses the No Hold Conference capability to add a participant to a conference call.
Note that you must set the Answer Supervision field on the Trunk Group screen to fewer seconds than the seconds in the No Hold Conference Timeout field.
