Configuring Paging

Use Administration Console to configure paging.

To allow paging interactions to take place, provide the configuration information in the Administration Console.

To enable users to send pages:

  1. Specify a Vocera extension or a desk phone number in each user’s profile. Use either an actual desk phone number, a unique number that you enter manually, or an artificial number that Vocera provides through dynamic extensions.

    The Vocera extension, desk phone, or dynamic extension allows the user to receive a callback on a Vocera device from the recipient of the page.

  2. Specify the email address in each user’s profile to integrate the user with Vocera Messaging Platform (VMP). When the email address is not configured, the page is not sent as an alert through VMP.
  3. Users do not require explicit permission to send pages to other users. Any user can send a page to any other user who has a pager number defined.

To enable users to receive pages:

  1. Specify a pager number in the profile of each user who has a pager.
  2. Assign users who have pagers either the Have Toll-Free Pager Number or the Have Toll Pager Number permission.

    Users who have permission to receive numeric pages can use the following voice commands to specify whether they want to receive pages:

    • Enable pages
    • Disable pages
  3. Specify a pager number for address book entries who have pagers.

    No permissions are required for address book entries.