Upgrades To Avaya Commnication Manager Made Easy; Note These Important Considerations; Upgrade Procedures; June - Avaya MCC1 Installation And Upgrades

Upgrades to Avaya Commnication
Manager Made Easy

Upgrade Procedures

Communication Manager™. For general information, see
Minimum required
When to use the TN2401 versus the TN2401/2400 sandwich pack
list of the carriers and backplanes that use the TN2401 alone.

Note these important considerations:

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Before upgrading to Avaya Communication Manager, you must obtain a license file for the
system. To obtain a license file, you must have completed Remote Feature Activation (RFA)
training at least 48 hours before you try to access RFA. For more information, access the
web site.
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For some earlier upgrades, the control carrier or cabinet replacement was optional. If the carrier
or cabinet was not previously replaced, you must replace it before you can complete the upgrade.
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It is essential to use the
upgrade. It automates the checking and setting of many of the administration forms that are not
normally reviewed, and it corrects a wide range of problems that can generate alarms or make the
switch inaccessible.
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Duplicated systems have
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If you have questions on connecting the fiber cables for a duplicated carrier cabinet installation,
see Install fiber optic cable for duplicated SCC1
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For more general fiber cable information, see
(Multicarrier)
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The upgrade procedures assume you are working on locally connected SAT. If you use Avaya Site
Administration or the Terminal Emulation on a PC connected to the DEFINITY system via C-
LAN or the Netcon channel, then you may not see all the status messages. So, your upgrade may
be successful even though the status messages do not reflect that the system has rebooted.
Upgrade Procedures
Click on the link to the upgrade procedure you want:
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Release 9si/10si/Communication Manager 1.x to Communication Manager 2.1
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R5/R6/R7/R8si to Avaya Communication Manager
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G3iV4 to Avaya Communication Manager
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G3V4vs/R5vs/R6vs to Avaya Communication Manager
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SI Installation and Upgrades

June 2004

Upgrades to Avaya Commnication Manager Made Easy

provides links to procedures to upgrade an Avaya DEFINITY
hardware.
Automatic Registration Tool (ART)
Special Administration Requirements
Cabinets.
What DEFINITY System Is This?
Note these important considerations:
Before you start, Blowback vs. On
explains the differences and provides a
as the final step of any installation or
not yet handled by ART.
systems.
Install Fiber Optic Cable Pass-Thru Kit for MCC1
®
Server SI to Avaya
site?, and
RFA
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