THE FORMS AND LABELS YOU NEED
Before you begin performing administration procedures, be sure to complete all the necessary forms:
●A System Configuration Form to keep a record of how the lines in your system are arranged.
●Voice Terminal Configuration Forms to record the lines and features assigned to all voice terminals. Fill out one of these for each voice terminal. -
When you ordered your system, you should have filled out these forms when you completed the MERLIN Communications System Planning Guide: Models 7030 and 3070. If you did not, turn to the Appendix, copy the forms included there, and fill them out before you proceed further. These forms serve as important references’
throughout later system administration procedures.
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During system administration the buttons on the administrator/attendant console per- form completely different functions than they do when the console is being used to handle calls. Therefore, you need a different set of button labels whenever you use the console for system administration. There are two sets of administration mode button labels in the back of this manual: one set for a small administrator/attendant console (systems with switch H on the control unit set to
CHOOSING A TIME TO ADMINISTER YOUR SYSTEM
Before you begin administration procedures, choose a time when you do not expect many people to be using their voice terminals. When you perform some administra- tion procedures, the system blocks all calls on the lines or voice terminals with which you are working. Blocked voice terminals generate soft, periodic beeps to alert peo- ple that they cannot be used. If you accidentally try to administer a voice terminal that has an active call, you do not cut off the caller. Rather, you are unable to con- tinue administering that voice terminal until it is idle.
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