Chapter 10: Manual Upgrade Of An S8300A And G700 To R4.0; About Upgrading An S8300A To R4.0 - Avaya G700 Installing And Upgrading

Chapter 10: Manual upgrade of an S8300A and G700

About upgrading an S8300A to R4.0

This chapter covers the procedures to upgrade the Communication Manager software, from
release 1.2, 1.3, or 2.0, on an installed Avaya S8300 Media Server, version A, to release 4.0 on
an S8300 Media Server, version B or C. The procedures to upgrade the G700 firmware use CLI
commands instead of the Upgrade Tool. These procedures require replacing version A of the
S8300 with version B or C. This chapter also covers the procedures to upgrade the firmware on
an installed Avaya G700 Media Gateway.
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Important:
This chapter assumes that the currently installed S8300 is version A with
Important:
Communication Manger release1.2 or higher. If the currently installed S8300 is
version B, follow the upgrade procedures in
existing S8300B or S8300C and G700 to
Communication Manager is release 1.1, you must upgrade to release 1.3 before
upgrading to release 4.0.
The B version of the S8300 shows a "B" on the faceplate (see
faceplate (B version is
is not indicated on the faceplate of the A version.
Figure 51: S8300 version faceplate (B version is shown)
The S8300 version can also be determined with the SAT command, list config all. The
B version is listed as S8300B. The C version is listed as S8300C.The A version is listed as
S8300.
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 S8400, S8500, or S8700-series Media
Server.
to R4.0
shown)) and the C version shows a "C" on the faceplate, but the version
Chapter 11: Manual upgrade of an
R4.0. If the currently installed release of
Figure 51: S8300 version
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