# Test Message Waiting Indication (Text Console only)

This procedure describes how to test message waiting lights after they have been configured for mailboxes in your server.

Prerequisites for this procedure are:

- All appropriate hardware has been installed.

- Telephone lines have been installed and tested for dial tone.

- Test mailboxes have been configured for message waiting lights.

To test MWI:

1. If you have not already done so, obtain a System Configuration Report. Refer to the report as needed for the configuration parameters that you have set.

2. Use Event Recorder to monitor server activity during test pages and report the resulting data:

   - Specify the line on which the pager being tested is defined.

   - Specify the message level to be saved.

   - Enable Event Recorder.

   - Run Event Recorder.

   - Display the data at the server maintenance console.

3. From the Main Menu, select (S) System Maintenance, and then (O) Additional Options.

4. Select (L) Lights Test and enter the number of the mailbox to light or a range of mailbox numbers separated by a hyphen.

   Note: If you select a large range of mailboxes, the Lights Test could queue up a long list of message waiting requests and could take a long time to process.

5. At the Light off/on/existing value (0/1/2): prompt, enter 0 to turn the message waiting lights off.

6. At the Message waiting type: prompt, enter the number of the message waiting type assigned to the mailboxes you selected or press Enter for all message waiting types.

   Number | Message Waiting Type
   --- | ---
   0 | None
   3 | DTMF to PBX
   5 | Pager (See Pager Application)
   7 | Program RS232
   9 | Centrex RS232
   11 | Centrex
   16 | HIS PMS
   17 | Unified Integration
   21 | Hitachi PMS
   28 | MiTAI Messaging

7. At the Mailbox to light (1-99999999999): prompt, enter the same mailbox number, or range of numbers that you entered in step 4.

8. At the Light off/on/existing value (0/1/2): prompt, enter 1 to turn the message waiting lights on.

9. At the Message waiting type: prompt, enter the number of the message waiting type assigned to the mailboxes you selected or press Enter for all message waiting types.

10. The server prompts for another mailbox to light. To repeat the test, perform steps 4 through 9 again.

11. Review Event Recorder data reported at the server maintenance console to determine if any errors were encountered.

12. At the Mailbox to light (1-99999999999): prompt, enter another mailbox number to test OR press Enter to stop the Lights Test, then Exit to the Main Menu.

Parent topic: Message Waiting Application