Installation guide

7-2 System expansion
Meridian Mail Card Option Release 9.0
• Software upgrade or conversion (Refer to Chapter 6.)
• Hardware modification (Refer to page 7-2.)
• Storage expansion (Refer to page 7-3.)
• Language expansion (Refer to page 7-5.)
• Feature expansion (Refer to page 7-6.)
Failure to follow this order may cause problems with the system.
Of course, not all systems will require each of these steps—simply skip the
ones you don’t have to perform, but maintain the order. Don’t, for instance,
attempt a feature expansion before a language expansion.
Hardware modification
Hardware modification allows you add new hardware locations to your sys-
tem or modify the attributes of the existing hardware locations. The number
of hardware locations dictates how many people can use Meridian Mail at the
same time. The attributes dictate which services each hardware location can
provide.
Before adding any DVP or C25 cards, you must ensure that the DNs reserved
for the hardware locations the cards will enable have not been reassigned to
some other use.
1
Log on to the Meridian 1 PBX. (Refer to page 4-1.)
2 Print a hardware location report by following the prompts in Table 4-6 on
page 4-19.
3 Using the hardware location table on page 10-2, determine the two de-
fault channel DNs for the card you’re installing.
4 If the values in the report are different from those in the table, you can
do one of two things:
a. Reassign the service that is currently using the DNs. (Refer to
Me-
ridian 1 Option 11—Administration Guide.)
b. Change the hardware location DNs to DNs which are not in use by
following the procedures defined in “Changing a hardware location
DN” on page 4-14.
Once any conflicts have been resolved, you can add the cards, as follows: