Testing The Dial-Out Setup - Liebert 300 series Installation, Operaton & Maintenance Manual

. T, P - Select tone or pulse dialing. Only one
of these can be used in a given number. They
are both prefixes, the T stands for tone (i.e.
touch tone) and the P stands for pulse. By
default, the modem
UPS is connected to a phone line which
requires pulse dialing, a P should be prefixed
to the number, i.e. P 555-8325.
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recorded voice to request further information
to be tone-dialed, such as a password and a
modem dials the phone number, waits for one
ring at the remote end, and then waits for 5
seconds before continuing to the next part of
the dial string. The @ imposes a 5 second
"quiet answern pause.
* - Used in pager display strings to generate
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a separator character between fields in the
display window. For example, if the pager
display string is 555*8325, it will appear in
the pager window as 555-8325.
-Used to force the modem to return to
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command mode after dialing. Unless you are
very familiar with modems and know exactly
what you're doing, do not use this command.
? -This character, if present in a pager
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display string, will be replaced with the event
ID code before being transmitted to the pager
service equipment (see the Dial-out Events
table for the list of ID codes and associated
events). For example, if the modem is dialing
a pager because of a battery test failed, the ?
character would be replaced with the number
would then appear in the pager display
The ? character has no meaning in a dial
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tone dialing. If the
Testing the Dial-cut Setup
Once you have set the phone numbers, Modem
Mode, and Call #2 field the way you want them,
you'll probably want to know if it all works
properly. That is what the Dial-out Test Screen
Dial Test: OFF
Last Attempt(s):
To test your dial-out setup, change the Dial Test
field from OFF to START. If you press ALABM
SILENCE while the Dial Test field reads
START, the dial-out test will begin. The
sequence of events will be identical to the
sequence that occurs when a 'real' dial-out event
happens. For example, if the Call #2 field is set
to #l FAIL, the UPS will only call the second
phone number 'if it can't connect to the Srst
number, or if the iirst number is a pager.
While the dial-out test is in progress, the Last
Attempt(a) fields will reflect the progress (or
lack of progress) of the dial-out. Note that
these fields are active during any dial-cut,
whether or it is a test. Since they
retain the result of the last dial-out
attempt, you can consult them to find out if
a previous attempt succeeded or failed. The
fields will display one of the following messages: