AT&T 2.1.1 manual Fax Transmission Control

System Operations

Fax Transmission Control

The Fax Transmission Control feature allows you to view the list of jobs currently in the fax queue that are waiting for transmission. The Fax Transmission Control feature provides a ‘‘snap-shot’’ of system transmissions at the moment you select Fax Transmission Control from the Fax Equipment Operations menu and press Enter .

This feature allows you to improve the performance of the system by eliminating jobs that overload the fax transmission queues and hinder system performance. You can also cancel large jobs that subscribers may have sent by mistake.

Overloading can be caused by a subscriber sending a large document to a large number of people while the system is already busy handling many other transmissions. In this case, the large job will significantly slow down the performance of the system.

When you select Fax Transmission Control from the FAX Equipment Operations menu, the system presents the Fax Transmission Control screen. This screen lists the time and date you selected this feature, the name of the person who originated the transmission, the destination of the transmission, the time the fax was submitted, the size (in pages) of the fax, and the transmission status of each fax transmission. The origin can be one of the following:

A subscriber who wants FAX Attendant to send a fax job to one or more destinations

A subscriber who requests that FAX Attendant print one or more held fax messages

A subscriber or outside caller who sends a fax message that FAX

Attendant automatically prints

Fax response messages to be routed to a third number

The destination is the place where FAX Attendant will print the fax message. This can be either a telephone number (which has a fax machine connected) or a laser printer (LP).

FAX Attendant assigns one of three status labels to each fax message:

ACTIVE signifies that the job is currently on one of the fax lines or a laser printer

SPOOLED signifies that the job has been submitted to the print spooler

WAITING signifies that the job is waiting for a free channel

The Fax Transmission Control screen lists the status of the transmission queue at the time you selected Fax Transmission Control from the FAX Attendant menu. However, the system does not automatically update the Fax Transmission Control screen when new entries are added to the fax queue while you are looking at the screen.

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