Lucent Technologies DEFINITY Enterprise Communications Server Release 8.2 Instructions Manual

DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2
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There are 2 types of users — superuser and non-superuser.
nA superuser provides access to the add, change, display, list, and remove 
commands for all customer logins and passwords. The superuser can 
administer any mix of superuser/nonsuperuser logins. The superuser can 
administer between 10 and 19 logins depending on your system.
The DEFINITY One...

DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2
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Instructions
Establishing daylight savings rules
In our example, we set daylight savings time rules for the Central and Eastern 
time zones.
To modify a daylight savings rule:
1. Type 
change daylight-savings-rules and press RETURN. 
The Daylight Savings Rules
 screen appears.
2. Complete the Start fields for rule 1.
a. Type 
Sunday in the Change Day field. 
b. Type...

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3. Complete the Stop fields for rule 1.
a. Type 
Sunday in the Change Day field.
b. Type 
October in the Month field.
c. Type 
25 in the Date field.
d. Type 
3:00 in the Time field. 
This information specifies the day, month, date, and time you want 
the system clock to transition back to standard time.
4. Complete the Start fields for rule 2.
a. Type 
Sunday in the...

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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 restart after a power failure. The correct date 
and time assure that CDR records are correct. CDR does not work until the date 
and time have been entered. 
NOTE:
Changing the date and time may modify CDR data by 9 hours and...

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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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 can use the bulletin board for messages. Only one user can post or 
change a message at a time. 
Whenever you log...

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Displaying messages
To display the bulletin board: 
1. Type 
display bulletin-board and press RETURN.
The Bulletin Board
 screen appears.
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...

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Deleting messages
To delete a message from the bulletin board: 
1. Type 
change bulletin-board and press RETURN.
The Bulletin Board
 screen appears. 
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
NOTE:
An alternate method of saving (backing up) and restoring...

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Translation copy protection assigns a number to a specific phone system and to 
the flash card or set of flash cards that belong to that system. On a G3csi or G3si, 
this number is the same on both the translation storage device (flash card) and the 
Flash PROM (Programmable Read Only Memory) of the processor circuit pack. 
In a duplicated system, the Flash PROM of each processor...

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When mass storage system (MSS) devices on both processors in a duplex system 
are specified, translation data is saved from the active processor to the active and 
standby MSS devices at the same time. If the save to one device fails or one 
device is out of service, the other save continues. You receive the status of each 
save separately.
NOTE:
If you have a duplex...