Getting The Serial Number Of The G700, If Necessary; Setting Up The Tftp Server On Your Laptop Or On A Customer Pc, If Necessary; Downloading G700 Firmware Files To Your Tftp Directory - Avaya g700 Installation And Upgrades

Manual installation of a new G700 without an S8300
Getting the Serial Number of the G700,
if Necessary
For an upgrade of an existing G700, the existing license file can usually be reused. However, if
the customer is adding feature functionality (for example, adding BRI trunks), or if the upgrade
is between major releases (for example, 1.3 to 2.0), you will need the serial number of the
G700. To get this number, ask the customer's administrator to log in to the S8300 web page and
select View License Status from the main menu to display the serial number.
For a new installation, you need the serial number of the G700 Media Gateway in order to
complete the creation of the customer's license file on the rfa.avaya.com web site. To get this
number, look for the serial number sticker on the back of the G700 chassis. If the unit is
delivered directly to the customer and you will not have phone or LAN line access from the
customer site to access the rfa.avaya.com web site, this task will require a preliminary trip to the
customer site.
Setting Up the TFTP Server on Your Laptop or
on a Customer PC, if Necessary
A tar.gz file, which you obtain from a CD-ROM or a website, contains new G700 firmware. To
load the firmware on a G700 Media Gateway, you must place this tar.gz file on a TFTP server
that is connected to the customer's LAN. The TFTP server can be a customer computer or it
can be your laptop if you have arranged with the customer to connect your laptop to the LAN.
Note:
A Linux or Unix TFTP server should be used only if the customer already has an
Note:
existing one. In these cases, you download the tar.gz file to your laptop and give
it to the customer for proper placement and execution.
To obtain the TFTP server software and install it, see
server.

Downloading G700 firmware files to your TFTP directory

To install new firmware for the G700 processors and the media modules, you first need to move
the new firmware files to a directory on the TFTP server. The installation program reads the new
firmware files from this directory on the TFTP server.
Perform one of the two procedures in this section, depending on whether you have a bundled
tar.gz file on a CD or wish to download individual firmware files from the Avaya Support website.
524 Installation and Upgrades for Avaya G700 Media Gateway and Avaya S8300 Media Server
Appendix D: Install the Avaya TFTP