Chapter5CutoverGuides
Thepreviousdeviceneedstobepoweredoffandremoved.Ifthecutoverfails,the
servicewillberestoredtotheprevioussystem.Afaultmayoccurwhentheprevious
systemispoweredonagain.Therefore,itisnecessarytoprepareenoughspareparts
fortheprevioussystem.
lBackupdata.
Backupthedataontheprevioussystem,ensuringthatthedataisthelatest.
Performthefollowingstepstocarryoutthecutover:
1.Preliminarysurvey
lCommunicatewiththetechniciansfromotherrelatedequipmentmanufacturers.
Makesurethepurposeandthesignicanceofthecutover.Cutoverisnotthebest
choiceifthereareothereasiermethodstodealwiththeexistingproblems.
lDotheon-sitesurveythoroughly.Conrmthattheconditionsforhardware
installation,theopticallineresources(foruplinkanddownlink)andthe
upper-layerdeviceresourcesaresufcient.
lFullyknowaboutthedetailednetworkingsituationofthecutoverservice.
lSpecifytherelateddepartmentsandsupervisorsforeachnodeinthenetwork
concerned.
Caution!
Anyunauthorizedorillegaloperationisnotallowed.Theexecutionofanyplanand
theprocessingofunexpectedeventsmustbeimplementedwiththeformalapproval
oftheoperatorandthetechnicalsupport.
2.Makecutoverplan.
a.Draftacutoverplanaccordingtothenetworksituationofactualservices.
b.Urgetheoperator’ssupervisiondepartmenttoorganizetherelateddepartments
andtheirsupervisorsateachnodeinthenetworktoattendameetingfor
discussingthedraft.Recordalltheopinionsfromeverydepartmentandthe
relatedprecautionsforactualoperationindetail.
c.Workoutthestartandendtimeofinstallingthenewdevice,debuggingsoftware
andtestingthesystem.Decidethetimeforcutover.
d.Afterdeterminingthecutoverplan,applyfortheapprovalofthehigherauthority.
3.Commissionnewsystem.
a.Performthecommissioningworkonthenewsystem.
b.Implementthesimulatedtestaccordingtothefeaturesoftheonlineservicesto
ensurethattheonlineservicescanrunproperlyafterbeingtransittothenew
equipment.
4.Implementcutover.
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