Lucent Technologies 5 manual Using This Guide, System Programming

MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 5.0	Issue 1
System Manager’s Guide 555-650-118	June 1997

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products. This section is helpful both to people who have used early releases of the system as well as to those who are accustomed to other communications systems.

■The “Index of Features by Activity” lists features according to tasks typically performed with the system. It describes the task and then tells you which Feature Reference entry explains it fully.

Using This Guide

Since the entries in the guide are in alphabetical order, you simply look up a feature by name. If you are not sure of the feature name, you can use the “Index to Feature Names” or “Index to Features by Activity” at the front of the guide and/or examine the general index at the back of the guide.

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This reference guide provides detailed, step-by-step instructions for programming all aspects of the system. You may use some of these programming procedures frequently, for example, the labeling functions to change the names, phone numbers, and extension numbers that display features use. Some you may use only occasionally, depending on how your system is set up. Others may never require your attention.

Since System Programming does not provide the full descriptions of features that the Feature Reference does, you may need to refer to both guides when you are programming a complex feature for the first time.

Contents and Organization

System Programming is organized into the following chapters:

■Programming Basics (Chapter 1). Provides an introduction to programming and idle states, and general information about using the guide.

■Programming with SPM (Chapter 2). Provides information about using SPM (PC-based software) that enables you to program the system from a PC rather than from a system programming console.

■Common Administrative Procedures (Chapter 3). Contains procedures that system managers use often (as summarized in Chapter 6 of this guide), including a programming summary, whether an idle state is required during programming, the system planning forms required, and the actual step-by-step procedures. This chapter also includes information about backing up system programming using a memory card.

NOTE:

After you are familiar with the step-by-step procedures, you can use the programming summaries to quickly refresh your memory.