Programming Overview; Types Of Programming - Lucent Technologies MERLIN LEGEND Release 7.0 System Manager's Quick Reference

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Programming Overview

Programming Overview
The MERLIN LEGEND Communications System offers easy-to-use,
menu-driven software for system programming. As part of the installation, your
system was programmed with features, settings, and options selected by you or
a representative from your company. The system programming software allows
you to easily modify the system programming to accommodate your company's
changing needs for such enhancements and modifications as upgraded lines,
additional modules, and new extension programming.
There are three types of programming, as well as two ways, or methods, to
perform the programming. The types of programming and methods of
programming are described in the following sections.

Types of Programming

Three types of programming are available for the MERLIN LEGEND
Communications System:
• System Programming. This type of programming enables the system
manager to program features that affect all or most system users; it
requires one of the following:
— A system programming console which is an MLX-20L telephone
connected to one of the first five jacks of the first MLX module in the
control unit. For more information about the system programming
console, see "System Programming Console" in Chapter 1,
"Programming Basics," in System Programming .
— The System Programming and Maintenance (SPM) software in a
Windows format called WinSPM. For Release 6.0 and later systems,
WinSPM provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for those tasks
most commonly performed by the system manager (for example, add
or delete members of groups, perform system inventories, create
reports, administer multiple systems, make station labels shown on
display telephones, and more). Pictorial representations of system
components, such as modules and their vintages, and the creation of
MLX telephone button labels are available with WinSPM. WinSPM
also provides an SPM DOS Emulator mode that allows basic SPM
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