Lucent Technologies MERLIN LEGEND Release 5.0 User guide

MERLIN LEGEND®
Communications System
Release 5.0
System Programming and Maintenance (SPM)
555-650-140
Comcode 108005729
Issue 1
June 1997

Notice
Every effort was made to ensure that the information in this book was complete and accurate at the time of printing.
However, information is subject to change.
See Appendix A, “Customer Support Information,” for important information. It follows
Maintenance and
Troubleshooting
in this binder.
Your Responsibility for Your System’s Security
Toll fraud is the unauthorized use of your telecommunications system by an unauthorized party, for example,
persons other than your company’s employees, agents, subcontractors, or persons working on your company’s
behalf. Note that there may be a risk of toll fraud associated with your telecommunications system, and if toll fraud
occurs, it can result in substantial additional charges for your telecommunications services.
You and your system manager are responsible for the security of your system, such as programming and
configuring your equipment to prevent unauthorized use. The system manager is also responsible for reading all
installation, instruction, and system administration documents provided with this product in order to fully understand
the features that can introduce risk of toll fraud and the steps that can be taken to reduce that risk. Lucent
Technologies does not warrant that this product is immune from or will prevent unauthorized use of common-carrier
telecommunication services or facilities accessed through or connected to it. Lucent Technologies will not be
responsible for any charges that result from such unauthorized use. For important information regarding your
system and toll fraud, see Appendix A, “Customer Support Information.”
Federal Communications Commission Statement
This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of
the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the
equipment is operated in a commercial environment. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio
frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful
interference to radio communications. Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful
interference, in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense. For further FCC
information, see Appendix A, “Customer Support Information.”
Canadian Department of Communications (DOC)
Interference Information
This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class A limits for radio noise emissions set out in the radio interference
regulations of the Canadian Department of Communications.
Le Présent Appareil Numérique n’émet pas de bruits radioélectriques dépassant les limites applicables aux
appareils numériques de la classe A préscrites dans le réglement sur le brouillage radioélectrique édicté par le
ministère des Communications du Canada.
Trademarks
5ESS, ACCUNET, ACCULINK, CONVERSANT, DEFINITY, Magic On Hold, Megacom, MERLIN, MERLIN II,
MERLIN LEGEND, MERLIN MAIL, MultiQuest, Music on Hold, PassageWay, and Systimax are registered trade-
marks and 4ESS, Lucent Technologies Attendant, AUDIX Voice Power, FAX Attendant System, HackerTracker,
MERLIN Identifier, MLX-5, MLX-5D, MLX-10, MLX-10D, MLX-10DP, MLX-16DP, MLX-20L, and MLX-28D, are trade-
marks of Lucent Technologies in the US and other countries.
Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
ProComm and ProComm Plus are registered trademarks of DataStorm Technologies, Inc.
Supra, StarSet, and Mirage are registered trademarks of Plantronics, Inc.
UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories, Inc.
PagePac is a registered trademark of DRACON, a division of Harris Corporation.
Okidata is a registered trademark of Okidata Corporation.
NORTEL is a registered trademark and DMS a trademark of Northern Telecom.
MCI, Prism, and Vnet are registered trademarks of MCI Communications Corporation.
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Contents
Contents iii
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS v
About This Book ix
■Intended Audience ix
■Terms and Conventions Used x
Typographical Conventions xi
■Product Safety Labels xi
■Security xii
■Related Documents xiii
■How to Comment on This Document xiv
System Programming and Maintenance 1
■System Requirements 2
■Installing the SPM Software 4
DOS Installation 4
DOS Installation with Windows 95 7
Initializing the SPM Software 11
■Connecting the PC 16
Direct Local Connection 16
Local Modem Connection 19
Remote Modem Connection 19
■Accessing SPM 21
With a Direct Local Connection 21
With a Local or Remote Modem Connection 22
■Using SPM 26
SPM Screens 27
SPM Main Menu Options 30

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SPM Help 31
Backup 32
Boards 38
Browse 41
Convert 42
Language 49
Maintenance 50
Monitor 51
Pass-Thru 51
Password 54
Print Options 57
Restore 58
■System Programming 62
Basic Programming Information 62
Idle States 63
Accessing System Programming 66
Printing Reports 67
■Upgrading the System 69
Before You Begin 70
Inter-Release Compatibility 71
Upgrade Procedure 74
■Surrogate Mode Programming 89
Index 91

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IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
The exclamation point in an equilateral triangle is
intended to alert the user to the presence of important
operating and maintenance (servicing) instructions in the
literature accompanying the product.
When installing telephone equipment, always follow basic safety precautions to
reduce the risk of fire, electrical shock, and injury to persons, including:
■Read and understand all instructions.
■Follow all warnings and instructions marked on or packed with the
product.
■Never install telephone wiring during a lightning storm.
■Never install a telephone jack in a wet location unless the jack is
specifically designed for wet locations.
■Never touch uninsulated telephone wires or terminals unless the
telephone wiring has been disconnected at the network interface.
■Use caution when installing or modifying telephone lines.
■Use only Lucent Technologies-manufactured MERLIN LEGEND
Communications System circuit modules, carrier assemblies, and power
units in the MERLIN LEGEND Communications System control unit.
■Use only Lucent Technologies-recommended/approved MERLIN
LEGEND Communications System accessories.

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■If equipment connected to the analog extension modules (008, 408, 408
GS/LS) or to the MLX telephone modules (008 MLX, 408 GS/LS-MLX) is
to be used for in-range out-of-building (IROB) applications, IROB
protectors are required.
■Do not install this product near water, for example, in a wet basement
location.
■Do not overload wall outlets, as this can result in the risk of fire or
electrical shock.
■The MERLIN LEGEND Communications System is equipped with a
3-wire grounding-type plug with a third (grounding) pin. This plug will fit
only into a grounding-type power outlet. This is a safety feature. If you
are unable to insert the plug into the outlet, contact an electrician to
replace the obsolete outlet. Do not defeat the safety purpose of the
grounding plug.
■The MERLIN LEGEND Communications System requires a
supplementary ground.
■Do not attach the power supply cord to building surfaces. Do not allow
anything to rest on the power cord. Do not locate this product where the
cord will be abused by persons walking on it.
■Slots and openings in the module housings are provided for ventilation.
To protect this equipment from overheating, do not block these openings.
■Never push objects of any kind into this product through module
openings or expansion slots, as they may touch dangerous voltage
points or short out parts, which could result in a risk of fire or electrical
shock. Never spill liquid of any kind on this product.
■Unplug the product from the wall outlet before cleaning. Use a damp
cloth for cleaning. Do not use cleaners or aerosol cleaners.
■Auxiliary equipment includes answering machines, alerts, modems, and
fax machines. To connect one of these devices, you must first have a
Multi-Function Module (MFM).

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■Do not operate telephones if chemical gas leakage is suspected in the
area. Use telephones located in some other safe area to report the
trouble.

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!
WARNING:
!
■ For your personal safety, DO NOT install an MFM yourself.
■ ONLY an authorized technician or dealer representative shall install, set
options, or repair an MFM.
■ To eliminate the risk of personal injury due to electrical shock, DO NOT
attempt to install or remove an MFM from your MLX telephone. Opening
or removing the module cover of your telephone may expose you to
dangerous voltages.
SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS

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Intended Audience
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About This Book
System Programming and Maintenance (SPM) is a software tool develped
specifically for the MERLIN LEGEND Communications system to allow
programming, administration, and maintenance tasks to be done on a PC.
Intended Audience
This book is intended for anyone who uses a PC to perform programing or
maintenance tasks for the communications system. It is especially aimed at
system managers and support personel.
‘‘Related Documents’’ later in this section, provides a complete list of system
documentation together with ordering information.
In the USA only, Lucent Technologies provides a toll-free customer Helpline (1
800 628-2888) 24 hours a day. Call the Helpline, or your Lucent Technologies
representative, if you need assistance when installing, programming, or using
your system.

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Terms and Conventions Used
Terms and Conventions Used
In this document, the terms in the following list are used in preference to other,
equally acceptable terms for describing communications systems.
Lines, Trunks and Facilities
Facility is a general term that designates a communications path between a
telephone system and the telephone company central office. Technically a
trunk
connects a switch to a switch, for example the MERLIN LEGEND
Communications System to the central office. Technically, a
line is a loop-start
facility or a communications path that does not connect two switches (for
example, an intercom line or a Centrex line). However, in actual usage, the
terms
line and trunk are often applied interchangeably. In this book, we use
line/trunk and lines/trunks to refer to facilities in general. Specifically, we refer to
digital facilities . We also use terms such as personal line, ground-start trunk,
Direct Inward Dialing (DID) trunk, and so on. When you talk to your local
telephone company central office, ask them which terms they use for the
specific facilities they connect to your system.
Some older terms have been replaced with newer terms. The following list
shows the old term on the left and the new term on the right:
trunk module line/trunk module
trunk jack line/trunk jack
station extension
station jack extension jack
analog data station modem data station
digital data station terminal adapter
7500B data station terminal adapter
analog voice and analog data station analog voice and modem data
digital voice and analog data station MLX voice and modem data
analog data only station modem data only station
digital data only station terminal adapter only station
7500B data only station terminal adapter only station
digital voice and digital data station MLX voice and terminal
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Product Safety Labels
MLX voice and 7500B data station MLX voice and terminal
adapter station
Typographical Conventions
Certain type fonts and styles act as visual cues to help you rapidly understand
the information presented:
Product Safety Labels
Throughout these documents, hazardous situations are indicated by an
exclamation point inside a triangle and the word CAUTION or WARNING.
Example Purpose
It is
very important that you follow
these steps. You
must attach the
wristband before touching the
connection.
Italics indicate emphasis.
The part of the headset that fits over
one or both ears is called a
headpiece .
Italics also set off special terms.
If you press the Feature button on an
MLX display telephone, the display
lists telephone features you can
select. A programmed Auto Dial
button gives you instant access to an
inside or outside number.
The names of fixed-feature,
factory-imprinted buttons appear in bold.
The names of programmed buttons are
printed as regular text.
Choose Ext Prog from the display
screen. Plain constant-width type indicates text that appears on the telephone display or
personal computer (PC) screen.
To activate Call Waiting, dial
*11 . Constant-width type in italics indicates
characters you dial at the telephone or
type at the PC.

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Security
!
WARNING:
!
Warning indicates the presence of a hazard that could cause death or
severe personal injury if the hazard is not avoided.
!CAUTION:
Caution indicates the presence of a hazard that could cause minor
personal injury or property damage if the hazard is not avoided.
Security
Certain features of the system can be protected by passwords to prevent
unauthorized users from abusing the system. You should assign passwords
wherever you can and limit knowledge of such passwords to three or fewer
people.
Nondisplaying authorization codes and telephone numbers provide another
layer of security. For more information, see Appendix A, “Customer Support
Information” following
Maintenance and Troubleshooting .
Throughout this document, toll fraud security hazards are indicated by an
exclamation point inside a triangle and the words Security Alert.
!Security Alert:
Security Alert indicates the presence of a toll fraud security hazard.
Toll fraud is the unauthorized use of your telecommunications system
by an unauthorized party (for example, persons other than your
company’s employees, agents, subcontractors, or persons working on
your company’s behalf). Be sure to read “Your Responsibility for Your
System’s Security” on the inside front cover of this book and “Security
of Your System: Preventing Toll Fraud” in Appendix A, “Customer
Support Information.”

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Related Documents
Related Documents
In addition to this book, the documents listed below are part of the
documentation set. Within the continental United States, these documents can
be ordered from the Lucent Technologies BCS Publications Center by calling
1 800 457-1235.
Document No. Title
System Documents
555-650-110
Feature Reference
555-650-111 System Programming
555-650-112 System Planning
555-650-113 System Planning Forms
555-650-116 Pocket Reference
555-650-118 System Manager’s Guide
Telephone User Support
555-650-122
MLX-5D*, MLX-10D*, MLX-10DP*, MLX-28D*, and
MLX-20L* Display Telephones User’s Guide
555-630-150 MLX-5D, MLX-10D and MLX-10DP Display Telephone
Tray Cards (5 cards)
555-630-152 MLX-28D and MLX-20L Telephone Tray Cards (5 cards)
555-650-124 MLX 10* Nondisplay Telephone User’s Guide
555-630-151 MLX-5 and MLX 10 Nondisplay Telephone Tray Cards
(6 cards)
555-630-155 MLX-16DP Display Telephone Tray Cards (5 cards)
555-650-120 Analog Multiline Telephones User’s Guide
555-650-126 Single-Line Telephones User’s Guide
555-650-138 MDC 9000 and MDW 9000 Telephones User's Guide
System Operator Support
555-650-134 MLX Direct-Line Consoles Operator’s Guide
555-650-132 Analog Direct-Line Consoles Operator’s Guide
555-650-136 MLX Queued Call Console Operator’s Guide
Miscellaneous User Support
555-650-130
Calling Group Supervisor’s Guide
555-640-105 Data and Video Reference

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How to Comment on This Document
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System Programming and
Maintenance
The System Programming and Maintenance (SPM) software package offers an
alternate method of programming the MERLIN LEGEND Communications
System using a PC. This method frees the system programming console for
other uses and also provides the additional functions listed below:
■Backing up system programming information
■Restoring system programming information from a backup
■Converting system programming information from one release to another
(part of the upgrade procedure)
■Upgrading the communications system to a newer release
■Printing, viewing, and storing reports
■Programming the communications system remotely
■Programming in surrogate mode
SPM runs on a DOS-based PC as a standalone program or on a UNIX System
platform as part of Intuity, Integrated Solution II, or Integrated Solution III (IS
II/III). It is available on a 3.5-inch diskette for DOS or UNIX, or on a 5.25 inch
diskette for DOS.
NOTE:
SPM software can be used directly from the floppy disks on a DOS
machine; however, if your PC has a hard disk, you should install SPM
onto the hard disk.

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System Requirements
This book describes the use of SPM on a PC with a DOS operating system. If
your system has the Intuity or IS II/III application, you have the UNIX System
version of SPM.
For information about accessing SPM from the IS II/III application, refer to the
following books:
■Integrated Solution III System Manager’s Guide, order no. 555-601-010
■Integrated Solution III Installation and Maintenance Guide, order
no. 555-601-011
■Integrated Solution II System Manager’s Guide, order no. 555-600-726
■Integrated Solution II Installation and Maintenance Guide, order
no. 555-600-720
System Requirements
To use SPM for system programming, you need the SPM diskette and an
approved PC with version 3.3 (or later) of MS-DOS. At a minimum, your PC
should support and include the following items:
■At least 640 kbytes of RAM
■A floppy disk drive that will accommodate the SPM diskette (3.5-inch or
5.25-inch)
■A monochrome or color monitor
■A serial port that can use either a DB-9 or DB-25 connector
■For a DB-9 connector, use a 9-pin to 25-pin adapter to attach the 25-pin
connector of the RS-232 interface cable.
■An RS-232 interface cable of appropriate length for your site
connection(s)

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Depending on how you connect the PC to the control unit, you also need the
following items:
■Direct local connection, if the PC is within 50 ft. of the control unit.
— Either a 355AF modular adapter (if there is a male connector on
the interface cable) or a 355A modular adapter (if there is a
female connector on the interface cable)
— A four-pair modular cord (D8W)
■Direct local connection, if the PC is more than 50 ft. from the control unit.
— 355AF adapter
— EIA crossover cable
— Two Z3A2 Asynchronous Data Units (ADUs)
— ADU crossover cable
— 400B2 power adapter
— 2012D transformer
— BR1A-4P adapter and either a 102 connecting block or 103
connecting block
— 248B adapter
— eight-position wall jacks
— four-pair plug-ended cable
—D8Wcords
— D6AP power cord
— EIA-23D cables
■Modem (local or remote) connection
— A modem that supports 1200- or 2400-bps connections
In addition, a parallel printer is useful for reports (the PC needs a parallel port
for the connection).

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Installing the SPM Software
NOTE:
SPM uses Interrupt 4 and I/O address 3F8 for COM1. It uses Interrupt 3
and I/O address 2F8 for COM2.
Installing the SPM Software
Before you install or run SPM, use diskcopy on a DOS PC (see your operating
system guide) to make a backup copy of the SPM diskette and store the
original in a safe place. Use the backup copy to run the installation program.
For installing SPM on a DOS PC, follow the appropriate instructions in the next
section of this book.
NOTE:
If your PC does not have a hard disk, you do not need to run the
installation program. Go to “Initializing the SPM Software.”
DOS Installation
Use the following procedure to install SPM on the hard drive of a DOS PC.
NOTE:
If you are updating SPM, you do not need to remove the current SPM
files. The new files will overwrite your current SPM files.
Considerations
Review the following items before you begin the installation procedure.
The installation program automatically performs the following:
■Checks available space on the hard disk. If space is insufficient, the
installation is terminated and an error message is generated.

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■Checks the autoexec.bat and config.sys files. If either file is
write-protected, the installation is terminated and an error message is
generated. SPM must make changes to these files.
■Saves a copy of autoexec.bat as autoexec.old.
■Saves a copy of config.sys as config.old.
■If autoexec.bat has not already been configured for SPM, performs the
following:
— Adds c:\spm to the path statement
— Adds the line SET AMS_PATH=C:
— Adds the background print command
PRINT /D:PRN /B:4096 /U:3 /M:200 /S:1
>NUL
■Adds the following line to config.sys if it is not already present
DEVICE=C:\ANSI.SYS.
■Copies the ansi.sys file from the floppy disk to c:\.
■Creates the directory c:\spm.
■Copies the following files from the floppy disk into c:\spm:
—spm.exe
— ams_hlp.eng (English language help file)
— ams_hlp.fre (French language help file)
— ams_hlp.spa (Spanish language help file)
■Creates the following directories if they do not already exist:
— c:\spm\backup
— c:\spm\reports
— c:\spm\tmp

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■Does one of the following:
— Creates the SPM configuration file c:\spm\ams.cfg, if it does not
already exist. In this case, the ams.cfg file consists of only one
line, in which the language attribute is specified: LANG 1 if you
specified English or did not specify a language with the install
command;
— Modifies the ams.cfg file, if it already exists, by adding or changing
the LANG value.
Follow the steps below to install SPM on the PC’s hard disk.
 Switch to Drive A, if it is not already the current drive.
A:> appears on the screen.
 Insert the backup copy of the SPM diskette into Drive A.
 Type one of the commands shown below and press 2 .
■ install
■ install french
■ install spanish
Because English is the default language, install and install english have
the same result. If you do use the language argument (english,french,or
spanish),you must type it in lowercase letters as shown. The command
install may be uppercase or lowercase.
 Wait for the message shown below to appear.
SPM HARD DISK INSTALLATION PROGRAM
Strike a key when ready