populate-sm-busy-from-mm-ixns
Section: gim-etl-populate
Default Value: false
Valid Values: true, false
Changes Take Effect: On the next ETL cycle
Dependencies: None
Introduced: 8.5.016.04
Enables you to align reporting of agent states more correctly in multimedia deployments with Interaction Server Cluster where:
- The Interaction Servers are configured as an Interaction Server Cluster, but each ICON connects directly to an individual Interaction Server in the cluster, instead of to the proxy.
- Only one ICON (or ICON HA pair) is configured to write agent state information (the ICON role option value includes gls).
Genesys Info Mart introduced support for this scenario in release 8.5.016.04, to resolve reporting inconsistencies that would otherwise occur if more than one ICON (or ICON HA pair) recorded agent state information. However, when only one ICON (or ICON HA pair) is configured with the gls role, only that ICON (or ICON HA pair) will report a BUSY state for an agent when the agent is engaged in an interaction handled by the Interaction Server to which that ICON (or HA pair) is connected. Other ICONs in this configuration will write interaction data when the respective Interaction Server to which the ICON is connected handles an interaction, but these other ICONs will not provide BUSY states.
To enable Genesys Info Mart to support the scenario without losing any BUSY state information, set populate-sm-busy-from-mm-ixns to true. With this setting, Genesys Info Mart generates BUSY states for agents based on multimedia interaction data, resulting in more accurate agent state reporting.
However, be aware that state durations might still be affected if time is not synchronized among the Interaction Servers in the cluster—for example, a state’s duration might be reported as one second less than actual.
Database Access Point
Also known as a DAP. An object that provides the interface between an application in the Genesys installation and the databases to which the application requires access. Refer to the Framework Database Connectivity Reference Guide for more information about configuring and using DAPs.
Glossary
Key-Value Pair
Also known as a KVP. A data structure that is used to communicate or store a piece of information. A KVP consists of a key, whose value is a string, and a value, which may be any of a variety of data types, including a key-value set (thus, making the structure recursive). The key identifies the meaning of the data that is contained in the value.
Glossary
High Availability
Also known as HA. The use of Redundancy to enable contact centers to minimize interruptions that are due to hardware, software, or network connectivity issues.
Glossary
Supported Topologies
Genesys Info Mart supports a number of data-source and Genesys Info Mart topologies. This page discusses various topology considerations.
Provided that the requirements for storage of ICON details are observed, the Genesys Info Mart architecture is flexible and scalable. The topology that you choose for each data source depends on several deployment-specific factors, including the number of sites, the data network capacity between sites, the interaction volume, and the required level of data-source redundancy or high availability (HA). For example, supported topologies can include:
- Single- or multi-site deployments, with one T-Server per site or several T-Servers per site.
- For the deployment as a whole or on each site, a single media type or data domain (for example, voice only) or a combination (for example, voice and multimedia; voice and Outbound Contact; or voice and Outbound Contact and multimedia).
- Common components located at one of the data-source sites or at some other, central location. Common components include the Configuration Server and the Genesys Info Mart application and Info Mart database.
Review Interaction Concentrator Topologies and the topologies illustrated on the Topology Diagrams page to determine which ones meet your contact center’s needs for performance and HA.
Data Domains
The Interaction Concentrator server (ICON) monitors data sources and stores data about data-source activity in the Interaction Database (IDB). Genesys Info Mart extracts data from one or more IDBs, according to configuration. Genesys Info Mart extracts each of the following data domains separately:
- ICON Configuration details — The data source for Configuration details is Configuration Server. [+] Tell me more
- ICON Voice details — The data source for Voice details is T-Server. [+] Tell me more
ImportantIn this document, the term T-Server is used generically to refer to all T-Server types (premise and network TDM Voice, SIP Server, IVR Server, and Virtual T-Server).
- ICON Multimedia details — The data source for Multimedia details is Interaction Server. [+] Tell me more
- ICON Outbound Contact details — The data source for Outbound Contact details is Outbound Contact Server (OCS). [+] Tell me more
Genesys Info Mart has specific minimum requirements for the types of ICON details that must be included in the deployment. For more information, see Genesys Info Mart Requirements for ICON Details Storage.
Interaction Concentrator Topologies
In a contact center that has a large Genesys configuration environment or that processes high call volumes — possibly, with large amounts of KVP user data — you can improve performance of both ICON and Genesys Info Mart by deploying multiple ICON instances to collect data for a particular data domain. When data is stored in multiple IDBs, Genesys Info Mart extracts data from these IDBs in parallel, thus decreasing the extraction time.
Genesys Info Mart Requirements for ICON Details Storage
The Interaction Concentrator topologies that Genesys Info Mart supports are similar for all types of ICON details, except for the following special requirements:
- Your deployment must include only one IDB (or one HA set of redundant IDBs) that stores Configuration details.
- Your deployment must include at least one IDB (or one HA set of redundant IDBs) that stores either Voice or Multimedia details.
- You can mix partitioned and non-partitioned IDBs for Voice details or Outbound Contact details within the same deployment.
- Each ICON application must populate its own IDB. In other words, consider each ICON-IDB pair (Interaction Concentrator instance) a unit.
- You can have one instance or multiple Interaction Concentrator instances (or HA sets) that store Voice, Multimedia, or Outbound Contact details.
- Each Interaction Concentrator instance can store data from one or multiple instances (or HA pairs) of T-Server, Interaction Server, or OCS, as applicable. In other words, the relationship between the data source(s) and Interaction Concentrator can be one-to-one, many-to-one, or many-to-many.
- If your deployment includes multiple Interaction Servers, see Login Session Consideration in the ICON Deployment Guide for additional information.
In Genesys Info Mart releases earlier than 8.5.007, the following additional requirements apply to all supported topologies:
- Genesys recommends that each Interaction Concentrator instance (or HA set) process and store data for only one data domain.
- You must use separate Interaction Concentrator instances (or HA sets) for Voice details and Multimedia details.
- You can combine storage of Outbound Contact details with Voice details. However, Genesys recommends that you use separate Interaction Concentrator instances (or HA sets) to store Voice and Outbound Contact details.
- You can combine storage of Configuration details with any of the other types of ICON details. However, Genesys recommends that you use a separate Interaction Concentrator instance to store Configuration details.
- To minimize the possibility of missing configuration data, Genesys further recommends that you co-locate the Configuration details IDB on the same host as the Configuration Database (see Recommendations on Hosting).
ICON Roles
The role option in the ICON application specifies the type of data that each ICON instance processes; similarly, the role option in the Interaction Concentrator DAP specifies the type of data that the ICON instance stores in IDB. For a thorough discussion of ICON roles, see the Interaction Concentrator Deployment Guide for your release. For more information about setting the roles that are required for Genesys Info Mart, see Configuring the ICON application.
When you plan your deployment, consider the following requirements for the various data domains.
ICON Configuration details
You cannot have more than one ICON instance (or HA set) monitoring the same Configuration Server (or HA pair) and storing configuration data in the same IDB. To store Configuration details, the role option of the ICON application must contain the value cfg. Be aware that the default value of the ICON role option is all. If you have more than one ICON application in your deployment, ensure that you specifically exclude cfg from the value of the role option in the ICON applications that will not be storing Configuration details.
ICON Voice or Multimedia details
- The ICON application(s) must be configured to store interaction activity, attached data, virtual queue, resource login, and agent state and work mode details.
- In releases earlier than 8.5.016.04, the role option of the ICON application must contain the values gcc, gud, and gls.
- Starting with release 8.5.016.04, Genesys Info Mart does not require the gcc, gud, and gls values to occur together. In multimedia deployments with Interaction Server Cluster, Genesys Info Mart release 8.5.016.04 and later supports scenarios where each Interaction Server in the cluster is connected to a separate ICON (or ICON HA pair) and, to meet the Login Session Consideration requirement noted above, only one of the ICONs (or ICON HA pairs) has the gls role. To improve agent state reporting in these scenarios, Genesys recommends setting the populate-sm-busy-from-mm-ixns configuration option to true.
- Optionally, the ICON application may also be configured to store UserEvent-based and, starting with ICON release 8.1.507.06, CustomReporting-based KVP data, in which case you must also configure options in the [custom-states] section of the ICON application (EventData or store-event-data) as required.
- A single ICON application (or a single HA set of redundant ICON applications) must record all activity for a particular agent. If, for example, a particular agent in your contact center logs in to two switches, the same ICON application (or the same HA set of redundant ICON applications) must monitor both switches.
ICON Outbound Contact details
In all Genesys Info Mart topologies for ICON Outbound Contact details, the role option of the ICON application must contain the value gos. For a dedicated ICON, the role option must contain only gos.
All ICON details
In all Genesys Info Mart topologies, each ICON must use only one DAP to access its IDB. For example, to store data for a Voice or Multimedia details ICON configured with role=gcc,gud,gls, do not use separate DAPs for the gcc, gud, and gls ICON providers. Ensure that the role configured in the [callconcentrator] section of the DAP matches the ICON role.