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I am helping a private school that had a CTX-100 donated to it. I am planning the trunks which will be 4 CO analog lines going on an RCOU card. In the process of filling out my planning sheets I have run across some unfamiliar terminology. Could someone tell me what "GCO Key Number" and "Pooled Key Number" mean and how to use them in trunk planning worksheet? Also DRL, FRL and QPL?

Thanks,
Karl

Group Co and Pooled COs I would not worry about too much for 4 lines. It would be far easier just to have all 4 lines appear on all phones. They are if you wanted to group the lines together and access them with a pooled line key, in the case of pooled lines. GCO I chave only used once with a T1.

DRL is Desrtination restrictions, if you wanted to restrict people from dialing long distace for example. FRL is facility restiction level and I have never used it. And I will admite that after working with Toshiba for years I am not sure what QPL is.

Queuing Priority Level

Has something to do with a an ABR situation and first available... I think, as I've never used it either,

BTW... funderburg,
Welcome to the board!

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Also, if you're working on a CTX, without the basic programming knowledge, it might not be a bad idea to call in your local Toshiba vendor and have them do the initial set-up/programming. It's always a good idea to establish a rapport with them, incase you get in over your head.

Just lookin' out

Tony

Thank you Newtecky and MacOSX. I am learning Toshiba fast. I am a telephone button programmer since I have not procured WinAdmin yet. I am comfortable using button programming from my 20 and 40 button sets but I do not yet understand all the parameters and codes. When I fired up the switch after installation, I ran the autoconfig program which gave me a basic setup with defaults. Now I want to setup a day and night service where day service has incoming lines ring on phone A and night service rings on phone A and B. Also would like to be able to direct one of the 4 incoming lines to a fax machine on my analog (BSTU) card. And because this phone is in a school I want to restrict certain phones from making long distance calls. Any ideas on what program numbers and parameters I need to change?

And don't worry, for safety I have a smart card in the system with a backup of my last working configuration so I can go back if I hose it up.

I am glad you are learning and attempting to do so correctly...

BUT

even an experienced Toshiba Technician will be ten times longer doing programming through the phone.

You really would be best served to have a local authorized Toshiba dealer come out for an hours labor and program it correctly. You may want to ask for a copy of the most recent admin software too, that way you can continue to make changes in the future.

That's for sure! Been there. Plus the telephone programing guide is a bit old and may not show features your system has, if your software is more recent then the guide.

If you can get a Toshiba vendor to install eManager for you and provide some basic training, that will save you tons of time later on. I would allow at least 2 hours and make sure you have a PC with all the required componants.