I was recently asked through a support forum how to administer an older model NEC Elitemail system via computer. The new IT person was taking over an Electra Elite IPK telephone system with an Elitemail “in-skin” voicemail system and the company he worked for wanted to offer employee directory look up through option 1 of their main auto attendant greeting.

Issue: When a CCPU-Us is new there is a 60 day license which enables all 16 ports of the UM8000. The desire is to have the UM8000 only take up the licensed number of ports during the initial 60 day license period…

Did you know that NEC’s latest voice mail platforms like the IM16-LX for the 2000 IPS or the EliteMail LX for the IPKII run on a Red Hat version of Linux?
So it didn’t come to any surprise that the web administration interface is provided through a version of the Apache web server. http://www.apache.org/
Interestingly, I was a little surprised that NEC didn’t document how to change the listening port for the installing and maintaining technicians out there.
By default, the system uses the basic defaults:
http = tcp port 80
https = tcp …