Avaya Control Manager overview

Last Updated : Jan 16, 2022 |

Avaya Control Manager is an operational administration solution that administrators can use to control key administrative elements across Avaya Oceana®. Control Manager operates in Avaya-based contact center and Avaya Aura® unified communications environments.

With Control Manager, technical and non-technical administrators can manage several day-to-day operations from a single web-based user interface, such as agents, users, extensions, voice mails, and skills administration. Administrators become more productive as agent provisioning and skill assignments take a fraction of the time required earlier, maximizing preparedness for customer interactions.

Control Manager is a user-friendly centralized administration tool for users to administer day-to-day administration tasks across their complete Avaya-based environment. Control Manager is offered as an entitlement when bundled with Avaya Oceana®.

Control Manager facilitates as a single point of administration for Avaya Oceana® elements such as reporting, multimedia, and multichannel. Administration is performed through a centralized administration portal integrated with Control Manager.

Control Manager can work with Avaya Aura® Call Center Elite. When you deploy Control Manager at an existing Call Center Elite customer site, it can extract the existing configuration information from Call Center Elite. Using Control Manager, an administrator can use Avaya Oceana® to target an existing Call Center Elite agent.

In Avaya Workspaces, Avaya Oceana® includes a connector to Control Manager to provide centralized management capabilities. This capability is included in the Avaya Oceana® base license. Administrators can use Control Manager as a consolidated place for all Avaya Oceana® related contact center administration functionality, such as user administration of agents and supervisors, Work Assignment attributes, hunt groups, skills, VDNs, tenants. Administrators can continue to manage other Avaya solution elements supported by Control Manager.

Unified Collaboration Administration stores the configuration information entered in Control Manager and makes this information available to the other multicenter applications as required.

Control Manager for Avaya Oceana® and Avaya Workspaces

  • There is a tracking material code for Control Manager when accompanied by Avaya Oceana®.

  • Control Manager connectors bundled under this entitlement include Avaya Aura® core, Call Center Elite, and Avaya Oceana®. Other connectors must be purchased. Enabled connectors can be combined with an existing Control Manager license, if owned by the customer. The quantity of entitled concurrent users included must be linked to the quantity of Avaya Oceana® supervisors purchased in a one-to-one ratio.

  • This entitlement does not include:
    • the new Multiplex High Availability (HA), using the Microsoft SQL AlwaysOn feature

    • the Legacy HA features.

    There is a tracking material code for Control Manager when accompanied by Avaya Workspaces. It includes Avaya Aura® core, Call Center Elite, Avaya Workspaces connectors, and an entitlement for 25 concurrent administrator logins.

Supported Avaya Oceana® administrative capabilities

  • Create, edit, and delete agents

  • Create, edit, and delete Work Assignment attributes

  • Configure Work Assignment channels and multiplicity per agent

  • Assign Work Assignment attributes and proficiency to agent

  • Set agent supervisor

  • Bulk updates of agent properties

  • Configure system parameters

  • Support up to 15 instances

  • Support video-enabled agents

  • Create, edit, and delete email templates

  • Edit email settings

  • Configure email signature settings

  • Configure email deferral codes

  • Add, edit, and delete Workspaces groups

  • Assign Workspaces groups to users

  • Create and configure thresholds for Avaya Analytics™

  • Configure service and reserve level thresholds

  • Configure Channel Exclusivity global settings

  • Add users for Workspaces

  • Add users for the supervisor reporting dashboard for Workspaces

  • Assign reporting access to Workspaces users

  • Configure agent timeout for the Avaya Oceana® and Avaya Workspaces

  • Configure a default Not Ready reason code for the Avaya Oceana® and Avaya Workspaces

  • Configure Auto answer timeout for a provider

  • Configure Auto answer for a user profile template

  • Assign a user profile template with Auto answer to an agent

  • Create routing service groups for Work Assignment