Installation guide

4-8 Basic system procedures
Stopping Meridian Mail
Standard 2.0 Meridian Mail Mini and Enhanced Card Option May 2000
Installation and Maintenance Guide
Stopping Meridian Mail
Introduction
Before you perform software upgrades, system restores, or
hardware maintenance, you should courtesy down the system.
This allows anyone using Meridian Mail to finish their sessions
before the system is brought down. During this time, no further
users are allowed to log on to Meridian Mail, and calls are
directed to the Meridian Mail attendant.
Stopping the system
To courtesy down the system, follow these steps.
Before upgrades,
restores, or
maintenance
After stopping the system to perform software upgrades, system
restores, or hardware maintenance, follow this step.
Step Action
1 Log on to Meridian Mail at the system administrator’s
terminal.
2 From the Main Menu, choose
5 System Status and Maintenance.
→
1System Status.
3 Select <Courtesy Down System>.
4 At the prompt, “Do you want to courtesy down the
system?”,
press the up arrow key to choose Yes, and press
<Return>.
The display charts the progress of the courtesy down.
Hardware locations are put out of service as users finish
their sessions. System Status displays CourtesyDown
when the process is complete.
Step Action
1 Disable the data ports for the console and the AML.
(Refer to “Disabling the console and the AML data ports”
on page 4-6 for Release 17 systems and earlier or
“Disabling the console and the AML data ports” on page
4-7 for Release 18 systems and later.)