About This Book; Overview; Audience; Using This Documentation - Avaya S8500 Manual

About this book

Overview

This book, Installing the Avaya S8500 Media Server with the Avaya G650 Media Gateway, 555-245-107,
provides procedures to install the S8500 Media Server, media gateways, backplane, and endpoints.

Audience

This book is for the Avaya technician, business partner, and customer who are responsible for installing
and configuring an S8500 Media Server configuration.

Using this documentation

Use this documentation as a guide to install and administer the S8500 Media Server. For information
about a particular task, use the index or table of contents to locate the page number where the information
is described.
For an overview of the installation process, see
Read the Pre-Installation Setup
tasks that must be complete prior to beginning the procedures described in this documentation. One step
you normally complete before going to the customer site is
authentication files
For technical specifications on the hardware, see
on page 28. For initial installation of hardware, see
Avaya G650 Media Gateway
Avaya S8500 Media Server, 555-245-701, a quick reference guide.
Use the remaining sections of the document in the sequence they are presented. If certain components are
not to be installed, skip the procedures for those components. You install and configure the media server
components using information in the following sections:
•
Installing the network interface card
•
Remote Supervisor Adapter components
•
Connecting the modems
•
Configuring the media server
•
Configuring the SNMP modules in the uninterruptible power supplies
•
Configuring the SNMP subagent in the Avaya Ethernet switch (if used)
•
Customizing the media server
Installing the Avaya S8500 Media Server with an Avaya G650 Media Gateway
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on page 26 section before going to the customer site. This section lists all
on page 33.
on page 25, which you use in conjunction with Getting Started with the
on page 39
on page 49
on page 52
on page 89
High level overview of installation process
Downloading license and Avaya
Avaya S8500 Media Server features and specifications
Installing the Avaya S8500 Media Server with an
on page 48
About this book
Overview
on page 30.
on page 84
on page 87
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