Chapter 5: Upgrading An Existing S8300A To R2.2; About Upgrading An Existing S8300A To R2.2 - Avaya G700 Installation Manual

Chapter 5: Upgrading an Existing S8300A to R2.2

About upgrading an existing S8300A to R2.2

This chapter covers the procedures to upgrade the Communication Manager software to
release 2.2 on an installed Avaya S8300 Media Server, version A. The current Communication
Manager release can be any pre-2.2 release. These procedures require replacing version A of
the S8300 with version B. 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. If the
Important:
currently installed S8300 is version B, follow the upgrade procedures in
6: Upgrading an Existing S8300B to
The B version of the S8300 shows a "B" on the faceplate (see
faceplate on page 237) — the version is not indicated on the faceplate of the A version.
Figure 17: S8300B version faceplate
The S8300 version can also be determined with the SAT command, list config all. The
B version is listed as S8300B. 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 S8500 or S8700/S8710 Media Server.
The steps to upgrade an S8300 configured as an LSP are the same as the steps to upgrade an
S8300 configured as the primary controller, with the following additional considerations:
The version of Communication Manager running on the LSP must be the same as, or later
than, the version running on the primary controller.
If upgrading both the primary controller and the LSP, the LSP must be upgraded first.
Then, with Communication Manager turned off on the LSP, the primary controller is
upgraded.
R2.x.
Figure 17: S8300B version
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