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

Manual upgrade of an existing G700 without an S8300
To get the G700 serial number
1. Ask the customer's administrator to log in to the S8300 Web page.
2. Select View License Status from the main menu to display the serial number.
The serial number should also be on a sticker on the back of the G700 chassis, but this number
is occasionally incorrect.
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
install the firmware on a G700, 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.

Downloading individual firmware files

Download the firmware files from the Web to your TFTP directory
Note:
The sequence of links on the website may be somewhat different than described
Note:
here.
1. Access the
690 Installation and Upgrades for Avaya G700 Media Gateway and Avaya S8300 Media Server
http://www.avaya.com/support
Appendix D: Install the Avaya TFTP
website.