Lucent Technologies DEFINITY User Manual page 199

Glossary
Console administration
The procedures that the System
Administrator uses to define your
environment. This includes identifying
the users who are authorized to access
the PC Console system, and specifying
how the buttons are configured at the
switch by configuring them the same
way within the PC Console software
Console Alarm Indicators
The built-in alarm lamps that indicate
major and minor troubles on the switch.
Feature buttons on the console can also
be administered as alarm indicators to
identify more specific problem
conditions.
Consult
The switch feature option that allows
you to talk with the called party after you
answer a redirected call.
Controlled Restrictions
The switch feature that allows the
attendant to activate or deactivate the
restrictions for individual telephones or
groups of telephones (on a COR basis).
Coverage Callback
The feature option that allows you to
leave a callback message for the called
party after you answer the redirected
call.
Direct Department Calling (DDC)
A switch feature that allows direct
inward access to an answering group
other than the attendant even if the
system does not have the DID feature.
Direct Inward Dialing (DID)
The switch feature that connects calls
from the public network directly to the
dialed extension without assistance from
the attendant.
Directory administration
The procedures that the System
Administrator uses to define, and later
identify, the database information
required by PC Console to communicate
with the switch.
display buttons
The administered buttons that access a
display function. Click the button to
perform the associated task. When the
button is activated, it turns white. If it is
deactivated, it turns gray. If the switch
needs to communicate a problem to
you, the button turns pink. The display
buttons required on every PC Console
are Normal, Next, and Return Call.
Distributed Communications Service
(DCS)
A configuration of 2 to 20 private
switches that are interconnected. These
switches may be in different
geographical locations.
Diversion features
Any features which, when activated,
cause the call to alert to a point different
from the dialed station.
Don' t Split
The switch feature that temporarily
disables Auto Start, and sends DTMF.
Emergency Access to the Attendant
The switch feature that provides for
emergency calls to be placed to the
attendant automatically by the system,
or dialed by system users; and allows
such calls to receive priority handling by
the attendant.
Emergency feature button
The administered feature button that
turns pink when an emergency call is
placed to the attendant.
Facility Busy Indication
The switch feature that provides a
visible indication of the active/busy
status of a particular trunk group or
extension.
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