Migrating From An S8700 Media Server To An S8710 Media Server; Pre-Migration Setup; Before The Day Of Migration - Avaya S8500 Manual

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Migrating from an S8700 Media
Server to an
S8710 Media Server
These procedures explain how to migrate existing S8700 Media Servers on release 1.2 through 2.0 of
Avaya Communication Manager to a S8710 Media Servers on release 2.1. If the media servers are on
release 1.0/1.1, you must upgrade them to release 1.2 or 1.3 before the migration. In this migration, you
reuse the system and translation files from the S8700 Media Servers. If on release 1.2 or 1.3, this
migration requires a new license file. If on release 2.0, no new license file is required unless the customer
purchases new features.
Because with this migration you are upgrading to Release 2.1 of Communication Manager, you must
upgrade local survivable processors (LSPs), if they are being used, before the S8710 Media Server takes
control.

Pre-Migration Setup

Same as for the S8700 except where noted.
The pre-migration team should have completed the following tasks. If they were not all done, do not
continue with the migration.

Before the day of migration

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S8710: If migrating from S8500 or S8700, verify that you have the:
— external flash drive and formatted disk if backing up files to the flash disk.
— IP addresses, subnet mask, and gateway for port 1 (Eth0) if backing up files to the
customer's network.
— appropriate login and password if backing up to and restoring files from the customer's
network.
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S8710: If migrating from an S8500 Media Server, verify that you have new license and Avaya
authentication file.
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S8710: If migrating from an S8700 Media Server with Release 1.x of Avaya Communication
Manager, verify that you have new license and Avaya authentication files.
Migrating to the Avaya S8700 or S8710 Media Server
June 2004

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