Administering Your System At The Administrator/Attendant Console - AT&T MERLIN 3070 Administration Manual

Administering Your System at the
Administrator/Attendant Console
Once your control unit is properly set to the operating conditions of your system, you
can use the administrator/attendant console for line administration. That is, you can
specify Touch-Tone or rotary signaling for each line, create a line pool, assign individual
lines or remove them from your voice terminals, and specify the lines you want to
activate extra-alerting night service devices. In addition to line administration, call
restrictions for each voice terminal in your business are assigned from the
administrator/attendant console.
In most cases, the lines and voice terminals that you are administering must be free
while you perform these operations, so choose a time when people are not using
their voice terminals. Once you begin using the administrator/attendant console for
the line administration described in this section, the system blocks incoming and outgo-
ing calls on the lines or voice terminals with which you are working. Blocked voice
terminals generate soft, periodic beeps to alert the people in your business that they
cannot use their voice terminals.
To carry out these instructions for administering your lines, you need the System Con-
figuration and Telephone Configuration Forms as well as the special administration
mode button labels for the administrator/attendant console. (See the Appendix for these
forms and labels.)
Before you can administer lines from the administrator/attendant console, it must be
in administration mode. The boxed instructions below tell you how to put the console
into administration mode.
Setting the Administrator/Attendant Console to Administration Mode
1. Go to the control unit and set switch A on the Processor Module to Administer
(down).
2. Go to the administrator/attendant console and slip the set of administration
mode button labels into it (see the Appendix).
3. Set the T/P switch on the left side of the administrator/attendant console to
the P position by sliding it towards you.
Red and green lights flash beside the buttons labeled Adm Pool, Adm
Tel, Tone/Pulse, and Night Service. These buttons indicate the various
types of system administration that you can do.
Once you set the administrator/attendant console to administration mode, you can
use it to perform any of the system administration procedures described in the following
sections. Each of these sections begins by instructing you to touch one of the ad-
ministration buttons (Adm Pool, Adm Tel, Tone/Pulse, Night Service). When you
do so, the green light beside the button should stop flashing and remain steadily lit,
and, in the case of Adm Pool and Adm Tel, you should hear a two-beep signal alert-
ing you to begin. If the light flashes rapidly instead, your system is in use and you
cannot begin. When this happens, the system continues to check the lines and voice
terminals and alerts you when they are free by making the green light steady and
giving the two-beep signal for the buttons that have it. If you do not want to wait,
you can always return to normal operating mode by sliding the T/P switch to the center
position.
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