Obtaining S8300 Software And G700 Firmware; Obtaining Service Pack Files; Pre-Upgrade Service Pack - Avaya g700 Installation And Upgrades

Upgrade of an existing S8300B to R3.0 with manual upgrade of G700 firmware
Check with your project manager or the customer for this information.
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Important:
Before going to the customer site, make sure that you can use a customer server
Important:
for backups.

Obtaining S8300 software and G700 firmware

The file containing the software for the S8300 has a *.tar extension and contains both the
S8300 software and the G700 firmware. The *.tar file is on a CD-ROM that you take to the site.
This CD is called the "Server CD" because in contains software for all of the Linux servers.
Additional files that may be needed are:
License file
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Authentication file
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Software service pack files (most recent version)
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G700 firmware file (most recent version)
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Obtaining service pack files

Pre- and post-upgrade service packs may be needed for this upgrade. If the service pack files
are not on your software CD, download the service pack files from the Avaya Support web site
to your laptop.

Pre-upgrade service pack

This upgrade requires a pre-upgrade service pack. The service pack filename differs,
depending on which software load the media server is on. See
pack filenames for software release and load
release.
642 Installation and Upgrades for Avaya G700 Media Gateway and Avaya S8300 Media Server
Table 37: Pre-Upgrade service
for the software load associated with each