Tasks Checklist - Avaya S8100 Series Manual

Upgrading Communication Manager from 1.x to 3.1 on an S8300 Media Server

Tasks checklist

Perform the tasks in this section at the customer site.
Go to the standard documentation
Use Installing and Upgrading the Avaya G700 Media Gateway and Avaya S8300 Media
Server, 555-234-100, Issue 9, February 2006.
To upgrade the S8300, you complete selected tasks from Chapter 11. You need to
complete only some of the tasks in these chapters. The specific tasks are identified by page
number in the left-hand column. The subtasks to perform or skip are listed in the right-hand
column.
It is important to note where the task is performed. Most of the tasks are done on a server
— on the S8300, or on the primary controller for the S8300 (if the S8300 is configured as
an LSP). The headings below indicate on which of these devices the task is performed.
1. If IA770 is in use (ICC mode),
get IA770 data and stop IA770.
See "Getting IA770 (AUDIX)
Data and Stopping IA770
(if IA770 is being used)" in
Chapter 11.
2. Perform data backup
See "Back up system files" in
Chapter 11.
3. Record configuration
information
See "Recording configuration
information" in Chapter 11.
78 Upgrading, Migrating, and Converting Media Servers and Gateways
Task
On the S8300 (ICC or LSP)
Steps/Comments
Backup according to the release from which you
are upgrading. See Table 5: R3.1 Upgrade
requirements depending on pre-upgrade
release on page 77
For the first backup, you will not restore these
data sets. It is important to have them in case it is
necessary to revert to the original configuration.
If you have not already done so, in the Record
Configuration Information task, record all of the
configuration information, regardless of the
release from which you are upgrading.
You will re-enter some of this information after the
upgrade.
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