Upgrade Overview; Access To The G700 - Avaya G700 Installation And Upgrades

5 Upgrading an Existing G700 with an S8300: Upgrade Overview

Upgrade Overview

G700 components
A P330 stack processor is built into the G700 Media Gateway. (This processor is also known as the Layer 2
switching processor). The G700 also contains an MGP processor, a VoIP processor, and media modules.
Updating the firmware for one or more of these processors and/or media modules is a required part of most
S8300 software upgrades.
Software and firmware files
The file containing the software for the S8300 has a .tar extension and contains both the S8300 software and
the G700 firmware. The .tar file will be on a CD-ROM that you take to the site. First load and install the
S8300 software. Then use the S8300 as the TFTP server to install the G700 firmware.The procedures in this
chapter tell you how to determine which firmware needs to be upgraded.
Note: You cannot use the S8300 as a TFTP server for IP Softphone software
installations. For these installations, the customer is responsible for providing a
TFTP server on the LAN.
To upgrade just the G700 processor and media module firmware, you can obtain the individual firmware
image files from the Avaya Support website. In this case, you cannot use the S8300 as the TFTP server.

Access to the G700

You can access the G700 in several ways.
LAN connections
If you can connect to the customer's LAN, you can:
1 . Use your Internet Explorer browser to access the Web interface on the primary server and use the
LSP/G700 Upgrade Tool.
2 . Telnet to the P330 stack processor and perform the installation commands.
For LAN connections the TFTP server can be your laptop or a customer computer on the LAN.
Direct connections
1 . If you are at the location of the primary server, you can connect directly to the Services port on
the server and:
- Open the Web interface and use the LSP/G700 Upgrade Tool.
- Or, telnet to the server and telnet to the P330 stack processor
2 . If you are at the location of the G700, you can connect directly to the G700 Console port and
open a Hyperterm session to access the P330 stack processor.
For direct connections, the TFTP server must be on the Customer LAN, not on your laptop.
See "Connection and Login Methods" in Chapter 1 for details on how to connect and log into the G700.
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