Lucent Technologies DEFINITY Enterprise Communication Server Release 8.2 Administrators Guide

DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2
Administrator’s Guide  555-233-506  Issue 1
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System basics 
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Establishing daylight savings rules
DEFINITY ECS allows you to set the daylight savings time rules so features, such 
as time-of-day routing and call detail recording (CDR), adjust automatically to 
daylight savings time. The correct date and time assure that CDR records are 
correct. You can set daylight savings time rules to transition to and from daylight 
savings...

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2. Complete the Start fields for rule 1.
a. Type 
Sunday in the Change Day field. 
b. Type 
April in the Month field. 
c. Type
 1 in the Date field. 
d. Type
 3:00 in the Time field. 
e. Type
 1:00 in the Increment field. 
This information specifies the day, month, date, and time and 
increment at which you want the system clock to transition to 
daylight saving time....

DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2
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System basics 
9 Setting the system date and time 
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Displaying daylight savings time rules
To display daylight savings time rules:
1. Type 
display daylight-savings-rules and press RETURN.
The Daylight Savings Rule screen appears. Verify the information you 
entered is correct.
Setting the system date and time
Update the date and time for events such as a leap year, the change to or from 
daylight savings time, or a system...

DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2
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2. Complete the Date fields.
a. Type 
Monday in the Day of the Week field.
b. Type
 November in the Month field.
c. Type 
3 in the Day of the Month field.
d. Type 
1998 in the Year field. 
3. Complete the Time fields.
Use the 24-hour clock to set the hour, so if the current time is 2:00 p.m., 
you enter 
14:00. You cannot update Second — it automatically resets to 0 
when...

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Related topics
Refer to ‘‘
Establishing daylight savings rules’’ for more information about setting 
system time.
Using the bulletin board
DEFINITY ECS allows you to post information to the bulletin board. You can 
also display and print messages from other switch administrators and Lucent 
Technologies personnel, using the bulletin board. Anyone with the appropriate 
permissions...

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Posting a message
In our example, we post a message to the bulletin board about a problem with a 
new trunk group, and a Lucent representative replies to our message.
To post a message to the bulletin board:
1. Type 
change bulletin-board and press RETURN.
The Bulletin Board screen appears. There are three pages of message space 
within the bulletin board. The first page has 19...

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2. Enter a space as the first character on each line of the message you want to 
delete and press 
RETURN.
3. Press 
ENTER to save your changes.
Saving translations
DEFINITY ECS retains all translation data in memory while the system is 
operating. If the switch goes down, you lose all translation data. You must save 
in-memory translation data to the memory card (flash ROM), disk, or...

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end of the specified grace period, otherwise you cannot access system 
management commands (such as: add, change, remove, and duplicate) that 
modify translation data. Lucent specifies the grace period during a system 
installation or following an upgrade.
Before you start
If you are saving translations to a memory card or tape, you must verify the 
memory card or tape is in place and...

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Fixing problems
NOTE:
You cannot see whether the translation ID on the flash card corresponds to 
the number on the Processor circuit packs. However, if the numbers do not 
match, the system issues an error message when you attempt a save 
translation operation.
When failures occur, the system responds with the following error codes. 
For more information about error messages and how...

DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2
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