Unmanaged Zones

An unmanaged zone is a zone that is known by VRC but not managed by VRC. It is a zone within a foreign region.

You can add zone prefixes or hopoff tech. prefixes to an unmanaged zone.

Note: If there are no hopoff tech. prefixes contained by an unmanaged zone, then there must be at least one zone prefix.

Use this procedure to add an unmanaged zone to a foreign region.

Procedure

You must be in the Design View to add an unmanaged zone to a foreign region.

  1. Expand the dial plan tree to view all components.

  2. Locate the foreign region you want to add a unmanaged zone to.

  3. Right-click the foreign region.

  4. Choose Add to Dial plan and Unmanaged Zone from the menus. The Add Unmanaged Zone dialog box appears.

  5. Enter the unmanaged zone attribute information.

  6. Click Apply to add the unmanaged zone. The unmanaged zone is added to the foreign region.

The following table describes the attributes of an unmanaged zone.

General Attributes

Description

Name

The name of the unmanaged zone. The name must be unique with respect to all zone alias names and other unmanaged zone names.  Maximum value is 64 characters.

Domain

The domain name of the zone (for example, cisco.com). Maximum value 255 characters.

Cost

The cost associated with the zone. Value can be between 1and 99.

Priority

The priority associated with the zone. Value can be between 1 and 99.

Foreign Domain

If checked, indicates that this is a foreign domain.

Validation State

Indicates whether the Cisco VRC server can contact the element during the Validation process.

  • Unknown - The Validation status is unknown.

  • OK - The last validation detected no warnings or errors.

  • Warning - The last validation detected one or more warnings that you might be required to correct before you commit the dial plan, depending on your intent of the dial plan design.

  • Fatal  - The last validation detected one or more errors that you must correct before you commit the dial plan.

Refer to Validation Flags and Validation Issues for more information.

Details

Additional information regarding the validation status of the zone.

 Click Cancel to cancel the procedure.