Lucent Technologies DEFINITY System Little Instructions Manual

DEFINITY System’s Little Instruction Book
for basic administration  555-233-756  Issue 1
April 2000
Managing phones 
25 Adding new phones 
Now follow the instructions for adding a new phone. Your switch 
now recognizes the new type you enter in the Type field.
Be sure to refer to your phone’s manual for instructions on how to 
set feature buttons and call appearance buttons. Note that if you 
need to use an alias for a phone, you may not be able to take 
advantage of all the features of the new phone....

Managing phones 
26 Adding new phones 
DEFINITY System’s Little Instruction Book
for basic administration  555-233-756  Issue 1
April 2000
4. Type the button name that corresponds to the feature you 
want to add.
To determine feature button names, press 
HELP or refer to 
DEFINITY ECS Administrator’s Guide.
5. Press 
EN TER to save your changes.
Some phones have default assignments for buttons. For example, 
the following figure shows that the 8411D includes defaults for 
12 softkey buttons. It already...

DEFINITY System’s Little Instruction Book
for basic administration  555-233-756  Issue 1
April 2000
Managing phones 
27 Customizing your phone 
Customizing your phone
This section provides recommendations for setting up or 
enhancing your personal phone. You need a phone that is 
powerful enough to allow you to use all the features you may give 
to other employees. You may want to add feature buttons that 
allow you to monitor or test the system, so that you can 
troubleshoot the system from your phone....

Managing phones 
28 Upgrading phones 
DEFINITY System’s Little Instruction Book
for basic administration  555-233-756  Issue 1
April 2000
You may also find it handy to set up multiple phones for testing 
applications and features before you provide them to users. You 
may want to have a phone that mimics each type of user phone in 
your organization. For example, if you have four basic phone 
templates, one for executives, one for marketing, one for 
technicians, and one for other employees, you may want...

DEFINITY System’s Little Instruction Book
for basic administration  555-233-756  Issue 1
April 2000
Managing phones 
29 Swapping phones 
Swapping phones
You will often find that you need to move or swap phones. For 
example, employees moving from one office to another may want 
to bring their phones.
In general, to swap one phone (phone A) with another phone (B), 
you change phone A’s port assignment to 
x, change phone B’s 
port assignment to A’s old port, and, finally, change the 
x for 
phone A to B’s...

Managing phones 
30 Removing phones 
DEFINITY System’s Little Instruction Book
for basic administration  555-233-756  Issue 1
April 2000
11. Update the Room and Jack fields.
12. Press 
EN TER to save your changes.
13. Physically unplug the phones and move them to their new 
locations.
NOTE:
You can also use terminal translation initialization to merge an 
x-ported extension to a valid port. Refer to DEFINITY ECS 
Administrator’s Guide for more information.
Removing phones
Before you physically remove a...

DEFINITY System’s Little Instruction Book
for basic administration  555-233-756  Issue 1
April 2000
Managing phones 
31 Removing phones 
3. Type list groups-of-extension 1234 and press RETU RN.
The Extension Group Membership screen shows whether 
the extension is a member of any groups on the system.
4. Press 
CANCEL.
5. If the extension belongs to a group, access the group 
screen and delete the extension from that group.
For example, if extension 1234 belongs to pickup group 2, 
type 
change pickup...

Managing phones 
32 Removing phones 
DEFINITY System’s Little Instruction Book
for basic administration  555-233-756  Issue 1
April 2000
11. Type remove station 1234 and press RETURN.
The system displays the station screen for this phone so 
you can verify that you are removing the correct phone.
Tip:
Be sure to record the port assignment for this jack in case 
you want to use it again later.
12. If this is the correct phone, press EN TER.
The system responds with 
command successfully 
completed
.
If...

DEFINITY System’s Little Instruction Book
for basic administration  555-233-756  Issue 1
April 2000
Managing features 
33 Changing feature parameters 
Managing features
This section explains how to administer some of the major 
DEFINITY features. It provides instructions for changing feature 
parameters, using abbreviated dialing, creating pickup groups, 
setting up call forwarding, defining coverage paths, and 
administering bridged call appearances.
Changing feature parameters
You can modify the system...

Managing features 
34 Changing feature parameters 
DEFINITY System’s Little Instruction Book
for basic administration  555-233-756  Issue 1
April 2000
To change the time limit for parked calls:
1. Type
 change system-parameters features and press 
RETU RN.
The Feature-Related System Parameters screen appears.
Feature-Related System Parameters screen
2. Type 5 in the Call Park Timeout Interval field and press 
EN TER to save the change.
If a parked call is not answered within 5 minutes, the call 
returns...