Basic Administration
This section guides you through the administration procedures required to get your
MERLIN system up and running. A later section tells you how to customize your
system further.
Complete customization of your
MERLlN
system involves a series of administration
procedures at the control unit, at the administrator/attendant voice terminal, and at
individual voice terminals. However, to get your system up and running in a simple,
basic configuration, just follow the steps in this chapter: set a few switches on the
control unit, connect telephone company lines to the control unit, and assign these
lines to line buttons on voice terminals.
In many businesses, further customization is not necessary because the
MERLIN
system comes with a preassigned set of features, called initial feature assignments.
After just a few simple procedures, the MERLIN system voice terminals will have
the initial feature assignments, which you can choose to change or leave in place.
These are discussed on page 19.
Before you start administering your system, keep the following in mind:
1. It is best to do administration when the system is not is use, but this is not a
requirement. The system automatically alerts you with a single, low-pitched ring if
you try to administer a part of it that is in use.
2. Make sure the Feature Package 2 cartridges firmly seated in the slot at the upper
right hand corner of the control unit.
WARNING: ALWAYS TURN OFF POWER TO lNSERT OR REMOVE CARTRIDGE.
3. When you turn the system on, the green Power light should go on and the red
Warning light should be off.
4. Check that your
MERLIN
system voice terminals are plugged into the numbered
jacks on the control unit. These jack numbers correspond to intercom numbers.
THE ADMINISTRATOR/ATTENDANT VOICE TERMINAL
The voice terminal plugged into Intercom 10 (intercom 0 on Model

206) serves

double
duty. In normal day-to-day operation, it is the attendant’s voice terminal-the place
where most of the calls to your business are answered. During administration,
however, it becomes the administration voice terminal, the place where you enter
information into the system.
You will use the administrator/attendant voice terminal to assign lines to line buttons
on voice terminals as well as to customize other features of your system (if you
choose to do so).
For best results, the administrator/attendant voice terminal should be a 34-button
deluxe voice terminal. The diagram on page 22 shows the button labels that are
useful during administration. In addition, tear-out labels for use with a 34-button
deluxe voice terminal during administration are found in the feature cartridge box.
SETTING SWITCHES ON THE CONTROL UNIT
The first thing you need to do is to turn on the system and set a few switches on the
control unit.
1.
2.
3.
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Plug the control unit power cord into a grounded (3-prong) ac outlet that is not
controlled by a wall switch.
Turn the On/Off switch on the control unit to On (Model 820 only).
Set the Toll Prefix/Area Code switch to Toll Prefix if you use a 1 or a 0 as a prefix
when dialing Iong distance calls. If you do not use a prefix, set
the
switch to Area
Code.