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16 Nortel DECT Messenger Administrator Guide

After you make changes in Users, Groups, or Devices, these changes

are stored in the eCONFIG database on your PC. The changes are also

immediately stored in the operational database on the DECT Messenger

(server) PC and are, therefore, immediately active.

Note 1:

If there is more than one eCONFIG active at the same

time, on different PCs, the individual eCONFIG databases are not

updated/synchronized after a user makes a change in one eCONFIG.

Only the database in the eCONFIG module where the change is made

is updated, together with the operational database. Changes made in

Groups using the eWEB interface are not written into the databases

of the eCONFIG modules — these changes are only written into the

operational database.

Note 2:

The database is never saved to the server PC when you work

on a remote PC.

Restarting the eCONFIG After you restart the program, eCONFIG finds

a database in its directory. The eCONFIG asks you whether you want to

continue with this database, or retrieve a fresh copy from the operational

database. Nortel recommends that you make a fresh copy of the

operational database to ensure that there is no database inconsistency.

Database inconsistency can occur after other users make changes in the

database from another PC or at the server PC.

DECT Messenger concepts

DECT Messenger receives alarms (messages) from input modules.

Understanding how these incoming alarms are processed is an important

step towards understanding the eCONFIG menu structure.

Figure 4 "Alarm processing structure" (page 16) shows the relation among

the modules and how messages are processed.

Figure 4

Alarm processing structure

Alarms originate at an input program (input module). An incoming alarm

carries an alarm identifier and a group identifier. The alarm identifier must

match an identifier in the Alarm Properties functional block, which specifies

how the alarm is processed (priority, time intervals, and so on). The group

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