Avaya S8300 - Manual (Page 21)

Contents
Issue 9.1 June 2006 21
Verifying software version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628
Copying files to the S8300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629
Configuring network parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631
Verifying connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632
Installing post-upgrade Communication Manager
service pack file from your laptop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633
Disabling RAM disk on the media server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634
Reboot the media server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634
Restoring data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 634
Procedure One: Restoring data backup
(if upgrading from a Pre-1.2 release) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635
Procedure Two: Restoring data backup
(If upgrading from R1.2.x through 2.x) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 636
Enabling RAM disk on the media server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639
Reboot the media server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639
Verifying the time, date, and time zone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639
Verifying media server configuration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640
Installing the new license file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642
Installing the new authentication file, if any . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643
Saving translations (if not using IA770 and S8300 is not an LSP) . . . . . 644
Verifying operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 644
Next steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645
Upgrade the firmware on the G700 Media Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646
Manually upgrading G700 firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646
Verifying the contents of the tftpboot directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646
Determining which firmware to install on the G700 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 647
Installing new firmware on the P330 Stack Processor . . . . . . . . . . . 649
Installing new firmware on the G700 Media Gateway Processor . . . . . . 649
Installing new firmware on the media modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 651
Setting rapid spanning tree on the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653
Installing new firmware on other G700 media gateways . . . . . . . . . . 654
Post-upgrade tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655
If using IA770: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656
Restore AUDIX data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 656
Saving translations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661
Installing IA770 service pack (or RFU) files
and optional language files, if any . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661
If IA 770 fails to start after an upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 662
Complete the upgrade process
(S8300 is the primary controller) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663