Introduction

The Personal Agent (PA) is an extension of the PC Client that allows the user to have more options. It lets you:

• Define how your incoming calls will be treated

• View and customize all your personal information and services

• Start the Multimedia Web Client from the Personal Agent

• Share files with other Personal Agent users or Multimedia Web Client users

• Manage and track and maintain contact information

• Establish a call between you and another user or contact

The PA is a Web-based GUI that works off of the IPCM much like the Provisioning Client that was covered in an earlier chapter. Since this is a Web-based GUI, you can connect from the PC Client tool bar, or you can bookmark the IP Address of the IPCM with the PA client ending to pull it up anytime from a Web browser. This is very helpful if your company has this set up on a SSL connection from the outside for authentications. In some places you might be able to get to your computer or have access to it.

If you have an outside IP address set up for your PA then you may go straight to it and log in; this will also let you log into a version of the PC Client that is for the Web. It has all the same features but allows you to use it anywhere you can get onto the Web page. It comes in very handy when you really need to send an...