Lucent Technologies 5 User Manual

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MERLIN LEGEND Communications System Release 5.0
System Manager’s Guide  
555-650-118  
Issue 1
June 1997
Learning More 
Page 7-7
Guides 
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products. This section is helpful both to people who have used early 
releases of the system as well as to those who are accustomed to other 
communications systems.
The “Index of Features by Activity” lists features according to tasks typically 
performed with the system. It describes the task and then tells you which 
Feature Reference 
entry explains it fully.
Using This Guide
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Since the entries in the guide are in alphabetical order, you simply look up a 
feature by name. If you are not sure of the feature name, you can use the “Index 
to Feature Names” or “Index to Features by Activity” at the front of the guide 
and/or examine the general index at the back of the guide.
System Programming
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This reference guide provides detailed, step-by-step instructions for programming 
all aspects of the system. You may use some of these programming procedures 
frequently, for example, the labeling functions to change the names, phone 
numbers, and extension numbers that display features use. Some you may use 
only occasionally, depending on how your system is set up. Others may never 
require your attention.
Since 
System Programming 
does not provide the full descriptions of features that 
the 
Feature Reference 
does, you may need to refer to both guides when you are 
programming a complex feature for the first time.
Contents and Organization
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System Programming
 is organized into the following chapters:
Programming Basics (Chapter 1). Provides an introduction to 
programming and idle states, and general information about using the 
guide.
Programming with SPM (Chapter 2). Provides information about using 
SPM (PC-based software) that enables you to program the system from a 
PC rather than from a system programming console.
Common Administrative Procedures (Chapter 3). Contains procedures 
that system managers use often (as summarized in Chapter 6 of this 
guide), including a programming summary, whether an idle state is 
required during programming, the system planning forms required, and the 
actual step-by-step procedures. This chapter also includes information 
about backing up system programming using a memory card.
NOTE:
After you are familiar with the step-by-step procedures, you can use 
the programming summaries to quickly refresh your memory.