Maintenance; About Upgrading Software Components; Vcs Software Components; Prerequisites - Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server Administrator's Manual

Maintenance

This section describes the pages that appear under the
the VCS web interface.
These pages allow you to perform the following tasks:
upgrade to a new release of software
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install and delete option keys
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manage security certificates
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enable advanced account security
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install and select a language pack
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manage administrator and user accounts and passwords
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create and restore backups
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create a system snapshot
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view and configure incident reports
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use built-in tools to check patterns
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view a list of all ports
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restart, reboot or shut down
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About upgrading software components

You can install new releases of the VCS software components on your existing hardware. Component
upgrades can be performed in one of two ways:
Using the web interface
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Using secure copy (SCP/PSCP).
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This guide describes how both of these methods are used to perform upgrades. You can also upgrade
the VCS platform component using TMS (see the TMS documentation for more information).
To avoid any performance degradation you are recommended to upgrade VCS components while
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the system is inactive.
For specific information about upgrading peers in a cluster, refer to the Cluster creation and
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maintenance deployment guide [27].

VCS software components

All existing installed components are listed on the Upgrade page
their current version and associated release key where appropriate.
The main component is the VCS platform, and when upgraded this will typically include automatic
upgrades of some or all of the other components. However, you can independently upgrade the other
components if required to do so. The upgrade process ensures that compatibility is maintained across
all components.

Prerequisites

The upgrade requires you to have:
a valid Release key, if you are upgrading to the next major release of the VCS platform, for
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example from X4.1 to X5.0; it is not required for dot releases, for example X5.0 to X5.1
a software image file for the component you want to upgrade, and it is stored in a network location
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that is locally accessible from your client computer
release notes for the software version you are upgrading to — additional manual steps may be
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required
Contact your Cisco representative for more information on how to obtain these.
Cisco VCS Administrator Guide (X6.1)
and locate aliases
used by the VCS
the VCS
- this is the recommended process.
VCS configuration > Maintenance
(Maintenance >
Maintenance
menu of
Upgrade), showing
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