Lucent Technologies DEFINITY Enterprise Communication Server Release 8.2 Administrators Guide

							DEFINITY ECS Release 8.2
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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 time outside of normal business hours, so the number of affected CDR 
records is small. 
You can set up 15 customized daylight savings time rules. This allows 
administrators with switches in several different time zones to set up a rule for 
each. A daylight savings time rule specifies the exact time when you want to 
transition to and from daylight savings time. It also specifies the increment at 
which to transition (for example, 1 hour).
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.
 
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS RULES
Rule Change Day Month___Date Time____Increment
0: No Daylight Savings
1: Start: first Sunday
___ on or after April___ 1  at _3:00 01:00Stop:  first Sunday___ on or after October_ 25 at _3:002: Start: first Sunday___ on or after April___ 1  at _4:00 01:00Stop:  first Sunday___ on or after October_ 25 at _4:003: Start: first _________ on or after ________ __ at __:__
Stop:  first _________ on or after ________ __ at __:__
4: Start: first _________ on or after ________ __ at __:__
Stop:  first _________ on or after ________ __ at __:__
5: Start: first _________ on or after ________ __ at __:__
Stop:  first _________ on or after ________ __ at __:__
6: Start: first _________ on or after ________ __ at __:__
Stop:  first _________ on or after ________ __ at __:__
7: Start: first _________ on or after ________ __ at __:__
Stop:  first _________ on or after ________ __ at __:__ 
						

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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.
NOTE:
You cannot delete a daylight savings rule if it is in use on either the 
Locations or Date and Time screens. However, you can change any 
rule except rule 0 (zero).
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 Change Day field.
b. Type 
April in the Month field.
c. Type 
1 in the Date field.
d. Type 
4:00 in the Time field.
e. Type 
1:00 in the Increment field. 
5. Complete the Stop fields for rule 3.
a. Type 
Sunday in the Change Day field.
b. Type 
October in the Month field.
c. Type 
25 in the Date field.
d. Type 
4:00 in the Time field. 
6. Press 
ENTER to save your changes. 
						

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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 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 59 
minutes. Therefore, you should change the date and time after normal 
business hours. After you change the date and time, review the time settings 
for any adjunct (other than AUDIX) linked to your system that uses the 
system time. 
Before you start
Before you can set the date and time, you need to know whether it is currently 
daylight savings or standard time and know which daylight savings rule number 
you want to use. Daylight savings rule numbers are located on the Daylight 
Savings Rule screen.
Instructions
Setting the system date and time
In our example, we set the date and time to Tuesday, November 3 at 8:30 p.m. 
standard time.
To set the system date and time:
1. Type 
set time and press RETURN. 
The Date and Time
 screen appears. 
						

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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 you save your changes.
a. Type 
20 in the Hour field.
b. Type 
30 in the Minute field (8:30 p.m.).
c. Type 
standard in the Type field.
d. Type 
1 in the Daylight Savings Rule field.
4. Press 
ENTER to save your changes.
NOTE:
When you change the date or time, some display phones may not 
automatically refresh the display. If this occurs, have each user press 
the date/time button on their phone to update the display.
Displaying the system date and time
To display the system date and time:
1. Type 
display time and press RETURN.
The Date and Time screen appears. Verify the information you entered is 
correct.
 
                           DATE AND TIME
DATE
 Day of the Week: Tuesday
Month: NovemberDay of the Month: 3 Year: 1998
TIME
Hour: 20 Minute: 30Second: XX Type: standardDaylight Savings Rule: 1 
						

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System basics 
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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 can use the bulletin board for messages. Only one user can post or 
change a message at a time. 
Whenever you log in, the system alerts you if you have any messages on the 
bulletin board and the date of the latest message. Also, if Lucent Technologies 
personnel post high-priority messages while you are logged in, you receive 
notification the next time you enter a command. This notification disappears after 
you enter another command and reoccurs at login until deleted by Lucent 
personnel.
You maintain the bulletin board by deleting messages you have already read. You 
cannot delete high-priority messages. If the bulletin board is at 80% or more 
capacity, a message appears at login indicating how much of its capacity is 
currently used (for example, 84%). If the bulletin board reaches maximum 
capacity, new messages overwrite the oldest messages.
NOTE:
The bulletin board does not lose information during a system reset at level 1 
or level 2. If you save translations, the information can be restored if a 
system reset occurs at levels 3, 4, or 5.
Instructions
Displaying messages
To display the bulletin board: 
1. Type 
display bulletin-board and press RETURN.
The Bulletin Board
 screen appears. 
						

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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 lines, but you can only enter 
text on lines 11-19. The first 10 lines on page 1 are for high-priority 
messages from Lucent Technologies personnel and are noted with an 
asterisk (*). The second and third pages each have 20 lines, and you can 
enter text on any line. The system automatically enters the date the message 
was posted or last changed to the right of each message line.
2. Type your message.
You can enter up to 40 characters of text per line. You also can enter one 
blank line. If you enter more than one blank line, the system consolidates 
them and displays only one. The system also deletes any blank line if it is 
line one of any page. You cannot indent text on the bulletin board. The 
TA B 
key moves the cursor to the next line. 
3. Press 
ENTER to save your changes.
Deleting messages
To delete a message from the bulletin board: 
1. Type 
change bulletin-board and press RETURN.
The Bulletin Board
 screen appears. 
Message (* indicates high-priority)  Date
*Lucent is in the process of  03/02/98
*investigating your trunk lockup problem. 03/02/98
*The Bulletin Board will be updated as 03/02/98
*we find information. 03/02/98
*
*
*
*
*
*
We recently added a new trunk group (14) 03/02/98
and have had many of the members getting 03/02/98
locked up. 03/02/98 
						

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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 tape. Saving 
translation data to memory card or tape is the same as backing up your system.
NOTE:
Save translations on a daily basis. You may want to save translations after 
business hours to prevent dial tone delays or during slow business hours if 
your business is open 24 hours.
The save translation command writes two time-stamped identical copies of the 
translation data to the selected memory card, disk, or tape. The save writes one 
complete copy first, then writes the second copy in a different area of the device 
— both with the same time-stamp. Failure during a save, including a system crash, 
usually affects only one copy. The affected copy is marked “bad” and should not 
be used for backup.
You can set save translation to be completed automatically as part of regularly 
scheduled maintenance or manually, as needed. For more information about 
saving translations automatically, refer to the maintenance book for your system.
Tip:
To determine if your system saves translations automatically, type display 
system-parameters maintenance
 to see if you have scheduled 
maintenance.
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 circuit pack has a 
translation ID and both ID’s are stored on the memory card.
An attempt to initialize (boot) the system with translations that do not contain the 
same identification number as stored in the processor circuit pack raises a major 
alarm and disables access to the save translations command for all non-Lucent 
logins. You also receive a warning message on the copyright screen notifying you 
of the mismatch. Contact your Lucent representative to correct this mismatch and 
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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 clear any active alarms from the alarms panel. 
If your switch is a G3csi or G3si, verify the memory card translation ID matches 
the translation ID of your switch’s Flash PROM.
Instructions
In our example, we save translations to the tapes on both processor A and B.
To save translations manually:
1. Type 
save translation both tape and press RETURN.
The save process can take up to 10 minutes. You cannot administer your 
system while the save is in process. The Save Translation screen appears.
2. If there is an error message in the Command Completion Status field and 
an error code in the Error Code field, clear the error and repeat the save 
process.
More information
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 system and you save translation data to both MSS 
devices one at a time, translation data inconsistencies between the two 
devices can occur.
SAVE TRANSLATION
Processor Command Completion Status Error Code
SPE_A Success 0
SPE_B Success 0 
						

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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 to correct them, refer to the 
maintenance book for your system.
Related topics
Refer to your maintenance book for information about backing up or restoring 
your system.
Refer to ‘‘
Saving announcements’’ on page 369 for information about backing up 
announcements for your system.
Refer to ‘‘
Restoring announcements’’ on page 371 for information about restoring 
announcements to your system.
Problem Possible causes Solution
1 Save translation cannot write 
to the active drive.Repeat the save translation 
process for the active drive.
2 Save translation cannot write 
to the standby drive.Repeat the save translation 
process for the standby drive. 
						

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