AT&T Merlin II R3 System administration Quick Reference Manual

Quick Reference Guide For

Merlin II R3 – System Administration

System Administration – Place the administration overlay on the Merlin II display

console. Enter System Administration from station 10 by pulling the switch on the left-
hand side of the Merlin II display console down to ‘P’ and pressing the Conference
button 2 times. The following procedures are performed while in System

Administration mode.

System Administration programming procedures

Attendant Positions – Press System, Attendnts, Position. Press the DSS button of a

station to assign it as an attendant (green light on). Only every fourth Merlin station jack
may be assigned as an attendant (10, 14, 18, etc.). A max of 8 attendants can be assigned.

Call Restriction – Press Stations, Restrct. Press the DSS button of the station to
restrict. Press Enter. Press a key for the restriction desired; NoRestr = unrestricted,

Local = toll restricted, Intercom = outward restriction.

Group Call Distribution – Press Stations, More, GrpCall. Dial group number

(870-875). Press Enter. Press the DSS buttons of the stations to assign (green light on).
To associate lines or pools with this group press the line or pool button to assign (green
light on).

Group Page – Press Stations, More, PageZn. Dial group number (881-886). Press
Enter. Press the DSS buttons of the stations to assign (green light on).

Loudspeaker Page – Press More, Options, XtrnPg. Press the line button to be assigned

as the Loudspeaker Page jack (green light on). A line must be unassigned from pools or
any line appearances before it can be assigned to Loudspeaker Page.

Music-On-Hold – Press More, Options, Music. Press the line button to be assigned as
the Music-On-Hold jack (green light on). A line must be unassigned from pools or any
line appearances before it can be assigned to Music-On-Hold.

Recall Timer Interval – Press More, Options, More, More, Recall. Dial number to
specify Recall Timer Interval; 0 = 350 msec, 1 = 450 msec, 2 = 650 msec, 3 = 1 sec.
Press Enter.

System Renumbering – Press System, More, Renumbr. Wait for system to restart.
This procedure is performed when modules are changed in the control unit.

System Size – Press System, Size. Press Small (8 lines or less and 20 phones or less), or
press Large (more than 8 lines or more than 20 phones).

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Quick Reference Guide For

Merlin II R3 – System Administration

System Type – Press System, Type. Press a button for the desired System Type:
Square, ButnAcc (Pooled), ARS (Pooled), Dial Acc (Pooled).

Transfer Return Interval – Press More, Options, TfrRet. Dial number of rings

(0-9) before a transferred call returns to the originator. Note: 0 rings means transferred
calls will not return to originator.

Line Assignments – Square System - Press Stations, Line/Pool. Press the DSS button
for the station being programmed. Press Enter. Press line buttons to assign (green light
on) or unassign (green light off) lines. To customize line assignments remove all line
assignments from a station, then press line buttons in the order of desired assignment.
Lines will appear in the order that line buttons were pressed.

Line Assignments – Pooled System – Press Stations, Line/Pool. Press the DSS button
for the station being programmed. Press Enter. Press line buttons to assign (green light
on) or unassign (green light off) pools. The main pool (dial 9) is automatically assigned
to the 2 line buttons above the Intercom buttons. These button assignments cannot be
changed.

Assigning Lines To Pools – Press Lines, Pools. Dial pool code (9 or 890-899). Press
Enter. Press line buttons to assign (red light on) or unassign (red light off) lines to pools.

A line can only be assigned to one pool. To change a line’s pool assignment it must first
be removed from its current pool assignment.

System Speed Dial – Press More, SpdDial. Dial System Speed Dial code (600-729).
Press Enter. Press Bksp to remove current entry. Dial * to mark the code secret. Dial
telephone number. Press Enter. Special dialing characters can be inserted in System

Speed Dial numbers as follows: Pause = press Hold, Stop = press Drop, Flash = press
Recall, press Hold, Touchtone Enable = press Transfer.

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