Chapter 12: Upgrade Of An Existing S8300B To R3.0; With Manual Upgrade Of G700 Firmware; About Upgrading The S8300B To Release 3.0; And Upgrading G700 Firmware - Avaya g700 Installation And Upgrades

Chapter 12: Upgrade of an existing S8300B to R3.0

This chapter covers the procedures to upgrade the software on an installed Avaya S8300B
Media Server from a 2.x release to 3.0. The procedures to upgrade the G700 firmware use CLI
commands instead of the Upgrade Tool. This chapter also covers the procedures to upgrade
the firmware on an installed Avaya G700 Media Gateway.
!
Important:
This chapter assumes that the currently installed S8300 is version B, which is
Important:
required to run Communication Manager release 2.0 or greater. If the currently
installed S8300 is version A, follow the upgrade procedures in
11: Upgrade of an existing S8300A to R3.0 with manual upgrade of G700
firmware

About upgrading the S8300B to release 3.0

and upgrading G700 firmware

The S8300 can be configured as either the primary controller or as a local survivable processor
(LSP). When the S8300 is an LSP, the primary controller, running Avaya Communication
Manager, can be either another S8300 or an Avaya S8500 or S8700 series Media Server.
The steps to upgrade an S8300 configured as an LSP are the same as the steps to upgrade an
S8300 configured as the primary controller, with the following additional considerations:
The version of Communication Manager running on the LSP must be the same as, or later
●
than, the version running on the primary controller.
If upgrading both the primary controller and the LSP, the LSP must be upgraded first.
●
Then, with Communication Manager turned off on the LSP, the primary controller is
upgraded.
The Upgrade Tool cannot be used on an S8300 configured as an LSP.
●
!
CAUTION:
This upgrade procedure requires a service interruption of approximately 2 hours,
CAUTION:
or up to 4 hours if IA770 is being used.
To upgrade the S8300B to release 3.0, it is necessary to install a pre-upgrade service pack that
prepares the server's Web Interface to load the upgrade RPM files from the Server CD onto the
S8300 hard drive.

with manual upgrade of G700 firmware

Chapter
Issue 8.1 June 2005 639