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Group Calling Feature
Automatic Configuration of the MERLIN Messaging System
To ease the amount of effort during a system installation, the MERLIN MAGIX
system can automatically configure a voice mail system when Release 2.0 of the
MERLIN Messaging System is housed in one of the system's carriers. This capability
takes the current data on the MERLIN MAGIX system and passes it to the MERLIN
Messaging System, thereby allowing the System Administrator to configure the
messaging system without having to manually enter a lot of data. Although primarily
intended for installation, the automatic configuration can be used at any time.
There are two forms of the automatic configuration: the Default
Configuration and the Custom Configuration.
Default Configuration
The Default Configuration automatically sets up the Voice Mail Calling Group
and the coverage group that receives the voice mail. The MERLIN Messaging System
clears all current extension mailbox information and sets up mailboxes for those
extensions that the MERLIN MAGIX system indicates should have them.
The MERLIN MAGIX system does the following:
- Sets up Calling Group 32 as the Voice Mail Calling Group with extension
7929.
- Removes all current members and parameters of the group.
- Assigns all the ports on the messaging system to Calling Group 32. The
calling group is assigned as an Integrated VMI and Linear Hunt group.
- Makes Calling Group 32 the receiver for Coverage Group 30. If Coverage
Group 30 has been programmed to go to another calling group, that programming
is removed and coverage is reassigned to extension 7929.
- Sets up all the MERLIN Messaging System ports for rotary-enabled dialing.
This allows the out-of-band dialing required by the MERLIN Messaging System.
- Removes any previously assigned lines from Calling Group 32.
- Removes all members from Coverage 30.
- Assigns all multiline extensions to Coverage Group 30 (including ETR extensions
not programmed for tip/ring operation). Extensions assigned to Coverage Group
30 receive mailboxes from the messaging system.
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Tip/ring, MFM, Queued Call Console (QCC), and tip/ring extensions
on ETR modules are not assigned to this coverage group. Also not assigned
to this coverage group is the second extension assigned for each TDL
port. Except for the MFM and TDL extensions, these extensions become
transfer-only extensions.
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- Sends all the Calling Group 32 and Coverage Group 30 information to the
messaging system.
- Sends extension labels to the messaging system, thereby allowing dialing
by name. (No labels are sent for the MERLIN Messaging System extensions.)
- Sends system date and time.
The MERLIN Messaging System does the following:
- Clears all extension mailbox information.
- Creates mailboxes for all extensions in Coverage Group 30.
- Sets up tip/ring extensions, QCC extensions, and ETR extensions programmed
for tip/ring operation as transfer-only extensions.
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The MERLIN Messaging System does not create mailboxes for the second
extension number assigned to a TDL port or for MFM extension numbers.
The only time a mailbox is created for one of these extensions is
when the extension has been added to Coverage Group 30. This applies
to both the Default and Custom configurations of the Automatic Configuration
of MERLIN Messaging System feature.
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- Sets up the directory based on the label information received, thereby
allowing for dialing by name.
- Synchronizes its time and date with that sent by the MERLIN MAGIX system.
- Sets the number of digits in the dial plan to the maximum length of an
extension sent by the MERLIN MAGIX system.
Custom Configuration
The Custom Configuration of the automatic configuration function gives the
System Administrator more flexibility in setting up or updating the MERLIN Messaging
System. (The Custom Configuration is called "Update" on the system
programming screens.) Although the Custom Configuration performs many of the
same tasks as the Default Configuration, it is different in significant ways:
- Coverage Group 30 is not set up automatically. The current members of the
group remain.
- Extension mailbox information is not cleared.
- The System Administrator can keep or delete extension mailboxes that do
not match the extensions sent by the MERLIN MAGIX system.
- If a sent extension has a mailbox, that mailbox remains intact.
During the Custom Configuration, the MERLIN MAGIX system does the following:
- Assigns the MERLIN Messaging System ports to Calling Group 32.
- Sets up all the MERLIN Messaging System ports for rotary-enabled dialing.
This allows the out-of-band dialing required by the MERLIN Messaging System.
- Sends all current extensions in Coverage Group 30 to the MERLIN Messaging
System, indicating that they should receive mailboxes. This includes MFM extensions
and the second TDL extensions for each TDL port; these are assigned to Coverage
Group 30 and used as phantom extensions.
- Sends all other extensions, indicating that these should be transfer-only
extensions. (MERLIN Messaging System extensions are not sent as transfer-only
extensions; they receive no mailbox of any kind.)
- Optionally, sends all labels to the MERLIN Messaging System (except the
MERLIN Messaging System labels).
- Sends the system time and date.
- Sends to keep or delete extensions that do not match the system dial plan.
During Custom Configuration, the MERLIN Messaging System does the following:
- Creates mailboxes for new extensions.
- Leaves mailboxes intact for existing extensions.
- Deletes mailboxes for extensions no longer on the system when the System
Administrator has chosen to delete extensions that do not match the system
dial plan.
- If chosen by the System Administrator, updates the directory entries from
the labels sent by the MERLIN MAGIX system.
- Updates the time and date sent by the MERLIN MAGIX system.
