Nortel Meridian Meridian 1 User manual

Background Terminal Facility Description
Meridian 1
Background Terminal Facility
Description
Document Number: 553-2311-316
Document Release: Standard 10.00
Date: June 1999
Year Publish FCC TM
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changes in design or components as progress in engineering and manufacturing may warrant. 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, and the radio interference regulations of Industry Canada. 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 their own expense.
SL-1 and Meridian 1 are trademarks of Nortel Networks Corporation.

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Contents
General information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Terminal setup and configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Using the Background Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
System options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Individual feature options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Accessing the Background Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Directory number expansion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
User modifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Configure port and identification codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Print port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Configure terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Restrict terminal features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Restrict terminal access to data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Managing terminal restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Define options for the Set command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Print system settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Print terminal setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Print at other terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Background Terminal displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

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Display format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Display wake-up events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Display message registration events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Display room status events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Automatic daily routines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Full Automatic list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Traffic data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Display option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Call Number Information Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Automatic Wake Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Guest Entry of Auto Wake Up (GEWU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Multi-Language Wake Up (MLWU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
VIP Automatic Wake Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Set wake-up call times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Set time for a secondary wake-up announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Set language identifiers for wake-up announcements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Find wake-up call times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Print wake-up call times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Print wake-up call map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Room Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Set room status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Set ready-for-sale criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Set automatic control of room cleaning status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Set cleaning status from room telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Set check-in, check-out parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

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Assign guest room categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Find current room status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Print current room status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Message Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Set meters to a given value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Erase meters (set to zero) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Turn meters on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Turn individual meter display on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Find non-zero meters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Print meter values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Call Party Name Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Set room for Call Party Name Display information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Print Call Party Name Display information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Room Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Set room status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Set ready-for-sale criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Set automatic control of room cleaning status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Set cleaning status from room telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Set check-in, check-out parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

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Assign guest room categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Find current room status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Print current room status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Operating parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Command summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Automatic Wake Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Message Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Room Status (Part 1 of 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Call Party Name Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Automatic List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Options for the Set command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Terminal functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Turning display messages on or off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Recorded Announcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Check-in, Check-out criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
For Sale Print criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Guest Room category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

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List of tables
Table 1
Background Terminal configuration (LD 17) (X11 Rls 17 and earlier) 5
Table 2
Background Terminal configuration (LD 17) (X11 Rls 18 and later) . 6
Table 3
Maintenance commands (LD 37) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Table 4
Set command to restrict or allow access to features examples . . . . . . 16
Table 5
System options printout example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Table 6
Printing at another terminal command examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Table 7
Display format (Maid ID, Multi-Language Wake Up, & VIP Wake Up) 24
Table 8
Display values (Part 1 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Table 9
Display format parameters (Part 1 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Table 10
Generating automatic daily routines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Table 11
Traffic printout format (Part 1 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Table 12
Using the Set command for Automatic Wake Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

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Table 13
Example of the Set command for the LAnguage option . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Table 14
Examples of the Find command for Automatic Wake Up . . . . . . . . . . 50
Table 15
Examples of the Print command for Automatic Wake Up . . . . . . . . . 52
Table 16
Wake Up call map example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Table 17
Room status examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Table 18
Using the Set command for Room Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Table 19
Using the Find command for Room Status (Part 1 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Table 20
Using the Print command for Room Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Table 21
Using the Set command for Message Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Table 22
Using the Set command to erase meters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Table 23
Using the Set command to turn meters on or off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Table 24
Using the Set command to turn display of meters on or off . . . . . . . . 83
Table 25
Using the Find command to find non-zero meters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Table 26
Using the Print command for Message Registration (Part 1 of 2) . . . . 87
Table 27
Room status examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Table 28
Using the Set command for Room Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

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Table 29
Using the Find command for Room Status (Part 1 of 2) . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Table 30
Using the Print command for Room Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

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Revision history
June 1999 Standard, Release 10.00. This document is reissued for X11 release 24.2x.
December 1998 Standard, Release 9.00. This document is reissued to include the Flexible
Direct Inward Dialing (FDID) feature.
August 1996 Standard, Release 8.00. Reissued for Release 22.
December 1994 Standard, Release 7.00. Reissued to include editorial changes and indexing.
Due to the extent of the changes, revision bars are not used.
October 1993 Standard, Release 6.00. This document is reissued to include new technical
information. Changes are noted with revision bars in the margins.
December 1992 Standard, Release 5.00. This document was reissued to technical updates.
Because of the extent of changes, revision bars were omitted.
December 1991 Standard, Release 4.00. This document was issued to include changes and
updates for X11 release 17. Because of the extent of changes, revision bars
were omitted.
December 1990 Standard, Release 3.00. This document was issued to include changes and
updates for X11 release 16. Updates were indicated by revision bars in the
margins.

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December 1989 Standard, Release 2.00. This document was issued to include changes and
updates for X11 release 15.
June 1989 Standard, Release 1.00. This document was issued to include changes and
updates for X11 release 14.