Using Call Scheduling

- What is Call Scheduling ?

Call scheduling enables the mechanisim for the Prestige to run the remote node connection according to the pre-defined schedule.This feature is just like the scheduler ina video recorder which records the program according to the specified time. Users can apply at most 4 schedule sets in Menu 11 ( Remote Node Setup), and configure each schedule in Menu 26(Schedule Setup). The remote node configured with the schedule set could be "Forced On", "Forced Down", "Enable Dial-On-Demand", or "Disable Dial-On-Demand" on specified date and time.

- SMT Menu for Call Scheduling

1. Edit the Schedule sets in menu 26:

`` Copyright (c) 1994 - 2003 ZyXEL Communications Corp. Prestige 662 Main Menu Getting Started Advanced Management 1. General Setup 21. Filter Set Configuration 2. WAN Backup Setup 22. SNMP Configuration 3. LAN Setup 23. System Password 4. Internet Access Setup 24. System Maintenance 25. IP Routing Policy Setup Advanced Applications 26. Schedule Setup 11. Remote Node Setup 27. VPN/IPSec Setup 12. Static Routing Setup 14. Dial-in User Setup 99. Exit 15. NAT Setup Enter Menu Selection Number:

2. Select a Schedule Set number and give it a name:

Menu 26 - Schedule Setup Schedule Schedule Set # Name Set # Name ------ ----------------- ------ ----------------- 1 ZyXEL 7 _______________ 2 _______________ 8 _______________ 3 _______________ 9 _______________ 4 _______________ 10 _______________ 5 _______________ 11 _______________ 6 _______________ 12 _______________ Enter Schedule Set Number to Configure= 1 Edit Name= ZyXEL Press ENTER to Confirm or ESC to Cancel:

3. The Menu 26.1 Schedule Set Setup is as follows:

Menu 26.1 Schedule Set Setup Active= Yes Start Date(yyyy-mm-dd)= 2002 - 01 - 01 How Often= Once Once: Date(yyyy-mm-dd)= 2002 - 01 - 01 Weekdays: Sunday= N/A Monday= N/A Tuesday= N/A Wednesday= N/A Thursday= N/A Friday= N/A Saturday= N/A Start Time(hh:mm)= 12 : 00 Duration(hh:mm)= 16 : 00 Action= Enable Dial-on-demand Press ENTER to Confirm or ESC to Cancel:

Key Settings:

Start Date | Start date of this schedule rule. It can be unmatched with weekday setting. For example, if Start Date is 2000/10/02(Monday), but Monday setting in weekday can be No.
How Often | If once is selected, all weekday settings will ne marked as N/A. After the rule is completely, it will be deleted automatically.
Forced On | The node will always keep up during the setting period. It is equivalent to diable the idel timeout.
Forced Down | The node will always keep doen during the setting period. The connected remote node will be dropped.
Enable Dial-On-Demand | The remote node accepts Dial-on-demand during this period.
Disable Dial-On-Demand | The remote node denies any demand dial during the period. For the existing connected nodes, it will be dropped after idle timeout and no triggered up.
Start Time/ Duration | Start Time and Duration of this schedule.

- Apply the schedule to the Remote node

Multiple scheduling rules can program in a Remote node, and they have priority. For example, if we program the sets as 1,2,3,4 in remote node, then the set 1 will override set 2,3,4. set 2 will override 3,4, and so on.

`` Menu 11.1 - Remote Node Profile Rem Node Name= CHT Route= IP Active= Yes Bridge= No Encapsulation= PPPoE Edit IP/Bridge= No Multiplexing= LLC-based Edit ATM Options= No Service Name= N/A Edit Advance Options= No Incoming: Telco Option: Rem Login= N/A Allocated Budget(min)= 0 Rem Password= N/A Period(hr)= 0 Outgoing: Schedule Sets= 1, 2, 3, 4 My Login= cso@hinet.net Nailed-Up Connection= No My Password= ******* Session Options: Authen= N/A Edit Filter Sets= No Idle Timeout(sec)= 0

- Time Service in Prestige

There is no RTC (Real-Time Clock) chip so the Prestige should launch a mechanism to get current time and date from external server in boot time. Time service is implemented by the Daytime protocol(RFC-867), Time protocol(RFC-868), and NTP protocol(RFC-1305). You have to assign an IP address of a time server and then, the Prestige will get the date, time, and time-zone information from this server.

Menu 24.10 - System Maintenance - Time and Date Setting Use Time Server when Bootup= Daytime (RFC-867) Time Server IP Address= 202.132.154.1 Current Time: 00 : 11 : 38 New Time (hh:mm:ss): 00 : 11 : 36 Current Date: 2000 - 01 - 01 New Date (yyyy-mm-dd): 2000 - 01 - 01 Time Zone= GMT+0800 Daylight Saving= No Start Date (mm-dd): 01 - 00 End Date (mm-dd): 01 - 00 Press ENTER to Confirm or ESC to Cancel:

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