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Avaya Unified Communications Management

Line of GUI software programs from Avaya

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ4827868 ↗
Source-derived summary

Avaya Unified Communications Management in Computer Networking is the name of a collection of GUI software programs from Avaya. It uses a service-oriented architecture (SOA) that serves as a foundation forunifying the configuration and monitoring of Avaya Unified Communications Servers and data systems.

History

Origins

These management tools were originally named and created by Synoptics, carried on by Bay Networks, and later updated with the family name Unified Communications Management by Nortel. The products, in a similar fashion as the Optivity product predecessors, are notable for their innovative use of a web browser-based user interface not only for access to network management data, but also for the configuration of the network. This was something that, heretofore, was only possible with an installed binary application.

Version history

In June 1996, release 7.0 included the Optivity Network Management System, which included version 7.0 which provided SNMP-based auto-discovery of the data network switches, analysis, planning tools, policy services, and telephony management. This management tool was rated very highly by Info World with an analysis of the tools from Bay Networks, HP, 3Com, and Network General Solutions, with HP Open View receiving the highest marks.

Capabilities

The products in the Unified Communications Management (UCM) suite integrate into the same SOA-based Web Services framework to provide a comprehensive [7] set of management capabilities all available through a web browser [8] single sign-on. Web browser [9] sessions of the Unified Communications Management Suite use HTTP Secure sessions to provide access to the UCM Home Page. From the UCM Home page, each user can access any of the UCM applications by clicking on the application link from the navigation bar on the left-hand side of the page.

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“Avaya Unified Communications Management” enters the record as line of GUI software programs from Avaya. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Avaya, Unified and Communications can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4827868. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “Avaya Unified Communications Management” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.