MSYoung

First, please define what emergency transfer means to you so we are talking about the same thing.

To me emergency transfer is power failure transfer and that is hardware, no programming required.

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smetse

Sorry, I need to be more specific.

Here is a quote from the Definity Maintenance manual:
“The system provides the ability to cut designated analog phones through to CO
trunks if the switch cannot provide even minimal phone service. This ability is
known as Emergency Transfer. Each port network PPN and EPN can have a
separate Emergency Transfer capability…”

On the remote Prologix system, I got this alarm:

Port Maintenance On Alt Alarm Svc Ack? Date Date
Name Brd? Name Type State 1 2 Alarmed Resolved

01 EMG-XFER y WARNING 10/02/12:50 00/00/00:00


After running “status system all” command, I got this:

EMERGENCY SELECT SERVICE CABINET
TRANSFER SWITCH EXP-LINK STATE MODE TYPE
1A off - CMC
1B -


Well, the switch is OFF on the processor circuit pack. I assume I can turn it ON and it will clear the alarm, but what is next? What phones will be assigned as emergency phones?

Does it make sense?

MSYoung

Yes, I know what your problem is now. That switch should be in the middle position labeled as auto. That will clear the alarm. The off position and the on position will trigger an alarm in the PBX.

Emergency transfer uses an external device that Avaya calls an 808 Emergency Transfer panel. Phones are assigned to this by physically running jumpers. You need copper CO lines (T1 will not do this). What you do is run the trunks thru this panel and then run the jumpers of the analog phones that you want to use for power fail thru the panel also. The panel is powered by a crossconnect to the Aux cable in the PBX. When the PBX loses power that will trip the 808 automatically into power fail mode and the phones you have selected will now be able to receive and make phone calls.

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