Avaya S8100 Series User Manual

Contents
4 Upgrading, Migrating, and Converting Media Servers and Gateways
TN2312AP/BP IPSI circuit pack upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Preupgrade service pack for upgrades starting from R2.x only . . . . . . . 91
Upgrading LSPs, ESSs, and H.248 media gateways, if any . . . . . . . . . 91
Upgrading firmware on media gateways and media modules . . . . . . . . 93
SAMP card boot timeout if upgrading with remastering program . . . . . . . 94
Upgrade tasks (S8500 Main Server as main server). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Upgrade tasks (S8500 Main Server as ESS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Preupgrade tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Upgrading the SAMP firmware (S8500B only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Connecting to the media server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Stopping call processing on the LSPs or ESSs if being used
(main server only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Starting a SAT session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Checking link status with SAT (main server only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Recording all busyouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Checking synchronization with the SAT (main server only) . . . . . . . . . 99
Disabling scheduled maintenance with the SAT (main server only) . . . . 100
Checking for translation corruption with the SAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Accessing the media server maintenance web interface. . . . . . . . . . . 100
Copying files to the media server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Resolving alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Backing up recovery system files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Verifying the backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Suppressing alarming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Saving a copy of the 4600-series telephone configuration file, if
any (main server only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Checking software release, only if starting from R2.x . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Activating the preupgrade service pack, only if starting from R2.x . . . . . 104
Upgrade tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Inserting the Communication Manager CD-ROM into the media server. . . 105
Copying Communication Manager to the media server . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Installing Communication Manager on the media server . . . . . . . . . . 107
Rebooting the media server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Verifying reboot progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Verifying software operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Checking system status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Making the upgrade permanent on the media server . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Installing postupgrade service pack, if any, on media server . . . . . . . . 113
Setting the Processor Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Copying IP telephone firmware to the media server, if necessary
(main server only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Avaya S8100 Series Specifications

General

Brand	Avaya
Model	S8100 Series
Category	Server
Language	English