CONFIGURATION
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CONFIGURATION
OVERVIEW
The user configurable parameters for the ELI option
reside in two locations: the Site Controller computer’s
database and the GTI units’ database. The configuration of
these two databases is covered in this section.
SITE CONTROLLER DATABASE
The overall operation of the ELI option is controlled by
the software in the Site Controller computer and the active
configuration of the Site Controller computer’s database.
This active configuration must reflect the installed telephone
interconnect hardware and the desired operational
characteristics. The Site Controller must use Release 5
(group 5, version 6.xx) or higher software to support ELI.
However, it is highly recommended that the Site Controller
use Release 7 (group 7, version 7.xx) or higher software to
ensure the proper and efficient operation of the ELI system.
Operation without System Manager
If the Site Controller computer is not connected to a
System Manager, the active configuration of its database
will always be the default configuration contained in its
Personality PROMs. Therefore, this default configuration
must reflect the installed telephone interconnect hardware
and the desired operational characteristics.
If the telephone interconnect hardware or the desired
operational characteristics change, it will be necessary to
order a new set of Site Controller computer Personality
PROMs. To assure that the new PROMs will accurately
reflect these changes, it is important to pay particular
attention to the following two data fields used by the Site
Controller personality programmer to make the new
Personality PROMs. (This is because telephone lines are
typically numbered differently in the ELI option than they
were in the previous telephone interconnect option.)
Max Line - Defines the highest telephone line number
used. For the ELI option, the standard procedure is to
assign telephone line numbers to the highest equipped radio
channel numbers, with the telephone line numbers
corresponding to the channel numbers. Therefore, a seven-
channel ELI site with three telephone lines would have
telephone line numbers five through seven, and you would
enter 7 in the Max Line field.
Rotary Defaults - Defines which line numbers are to be
considered when hunting for an available line. This field
should only list existing line numbers. Listing non-existent
line numbers may delay the line assignments for radio-
initiated interconnect calls. In the previous example, line
numbers one through four would not exist and should not be
entered in the Rotary Defaults field.
Interconnect Timing Parameters
If upgrading to Release 7 Site Controller
Application Software, check these interconnect
timing settings.
NOTE
If the Site Controller has Release 7 or later site
controller software, the interconnect timing parameters in
the Site Controller personality may need to be altered.
These timing parameters are designed to guide system
response time to certain interconnect sequences, such as dial
tone detection and DTMF digit detection. The Site
Controller pre-Release 7 software added significant time to
these timing parameters. As an example, the dial tone
detection duration defaults to one second. Prior to this
release, the site controller would in fact wait 1.6 seconds for
dial tone. Another example is the DTMF digit detect
duration, which defaults to 20 seconds for ELI. Prior to this
release, the 20 second time-out was in reality 32 seconds.
These examples indicate that rotary hunts would take longer
and interconnect resource recovery would be further delayed
beyond what a customer called out in the Site Controller
personality. At best this causes confusion, making it more
difficult to tailor an EDACS system per customer needs.
With Release 7 and later software, the interconnect
timings are accurate. The accurate timings provide the
benefit of reliable customization of system operation per
customer needs (e.g., dial tone detection) and increased
interconnect call throughput by more quickly recovering
interconnect resources for use by future calls. This carries
certain implications, most notable of which is dial tone
detection. If a customer application reports dial tone within
1 to 1.5 seconds, for example, previous software releases
would reliably process dial tone detection with a personality
value of 1 second. Release 7 (or later), however, would not,
resulting in either a rotary hunt or, worse, misdialing on one
or more lines (see open DSR #4324). To remedy this
problem, the site controller personality should be updated
concurrent with the Release 7 (or later) upgrade to provide
the same relative time margin for dial tone detection, namely
increase the duration from 1 second to 1.6 seconds.