calls coming in on any line other than these three cannot be answered on or transferred
to a 5-button voice terminal. Before doing any administration on a square system,
see “SPECIAL INFORMATION ABOUT SQUARE SYSTEMS," page 38, for more
information.
THE ADMINISTRATOR/ATTENDANT CONSOLE
The administrator/attendant console is a dual-purpose voice terminal and is different
from all others in the
MERLIN
system. It is always the Intercom 10 voice terminal,
and under ordinary day-today operating conditions, it functions as your primary at-
tendant console. In addition, it serves a unique administrative purpose — you use
it to administer the lines on the voice terminals throughout your business. Administering
lines means giving the system information about which lines should appear on each
voice terminal and how the lines should work (for example, whether they are Touch-
Tone or rotary, or part of a line pool). To put the administrator/attendant console into
administration mode so you can use it in this way, you simply set a switch on the
control unit and another switch on the console itself. After doing this, you insert a
special set of administration mode button labels (see the Appendix) into the console
itself, so you know which buttons to touch when you administer lines.
The system automatically configures the administrator/attendant console for square
operation; that is, all lines appear on it separately, even though your system may have
a line pool. Because it is essential that you be able to see what is happening on
individual lines when you administer them, only a 34-button deluxe model voice ter-
minal is practical for your administrator/attendant console. The 34-button deluxe model
voice terminal has lights beside each button to give you information about lines, while
the standard model does not.
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