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Installing and Upgrading
the Avaya G700 Media Gateway and
Avaya S8300 Media Server
555-234-100
Issue 9.1
June 2006
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© 2006 Avaya Inc. All Rights Reserved. Notice While reasonable efforts were made to ensure that the information in this document was complete and accurate at the time of printing, Avaya Inc. can assume no liability for any errors. Changes and corrections to the information in this document may be incorporated in future releases. For full support information, please see the complete document, Avaya Support Notices for Hardware Documentation, document number 03-600759. To locate this document
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Contents About this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Using this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents The Provisioning and Installation Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 High-level steps for configuring media gateways using PIM . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Network Configuration Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 The Network Region Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 About connection and login methods . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents What are the main elements of the G700 media gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 What comprises the G700 media gateway chassis and processors . . . . 84 What are the media modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 What are data expansion modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 What are stackable ethernet switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Building a stack
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Contents Connecting AC Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 What are the G700 AC power requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Testing the AC Outlet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Plugging in AC power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Checking and Connecting DC Power . . . . . . .
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Contents Checking the FTP Server for Backing up Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Obtaining service pack files, if needed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 If using IA770, obtaining service pack and language files . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Obtaining an IA770 service pack file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Obtaining Optional language files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents Administering the Media Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Considerations for IP Phones Supported by a Local Survivable Processor . . . 193 Transition of Control from Primary Controller to LSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Complete the Installation of the S8300 (if the Primary Controller) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Backing up the system . . . . . .
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Contents Assigning LSPs to the Network Regions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Administering IP Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Identifying the Survivable Processor on the primary controller . . . . . . 220 Administering the Media Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Complete the Installation Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents Installing the pre-upgrade software service pack, if necessary . . . . . . . . 251 Installing the pre-upgrade service pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 Linux migration backup (if current release is 1.2.0 through 1.3.x) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 Replacing the S8300A with the S8300B Media Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Upgrading Communication Manager software . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents If IA 770 fails to start after an upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 Complete the upgrade process (S8300 is the primary controller) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 Chapter 6: Upgrading an existing S8300B to R3.1 using the Upgrade Tool 293 About upgrading the S8300B to release 3.1 and upgrading G700 firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 The need to
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Contents Copying license, authentication, and post-upgrade service pack files to the S8300 hard drive, including licenses for LSPs . . . . . . . . . . . 319 Copying authentication files to the LSPs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 Copying the Communication Manager software and media gateway firmware to a TFTP or HTTP server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 Copying the Communication Manager software and media gateway firmware to the
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Contents Downloading G700 firmware files to your TFTP directory . . . . . . . . . . . 346 Downloading individual firmware files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346 On-site preparation for the upgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348 Accessing the P330 Stack Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348 Verifying the contents of the tftpboot directory . . . . . . . . .
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Contents Shared resources of IA770 coresidency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385 Where is the IA770 location and software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386 Using an AUDIX trunk group as well as an AUDIX hunt group for new systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386 IA 770 INTUITY AUDIX installations and S8300 upgrades for IA 770 INTUITY AUDIX . . . . . . . . .
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Contents Connecting CDR equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413 Administering CDR data collection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413 Administering CDR parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 414 Testing the switch-to-adjunct link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416 Reliable Data Transport Tool (RDTT) package . . .
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Contents Call Management System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442 INTUITY AUDIX Messaging Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443 Avaya Modular Messaging System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443 ASAI and DEFINITY LAN Gateway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443 Avaya Interactive Response . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents Collecting Upgrade Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462 Planning Forms that the Project Manager provides. . . . . . . . . . . . . 462 Getting the Serial Number of the G700, if Necessary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463 Checking the FTP Server for Backing up Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463 Obtaining service pack files, if nee
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Contents Administer Communication Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516 Administering an S8300 primary controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516 Assigning Node Names and IP Addresses for the LSPs . . . . . . . . . . 517 Administering Network Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518 Associating LSPs with Network Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Contents Planning forms that the Project Manager provides . . . . . . . . . . . . . 547 Installing the Gateway Installation Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548 Setting Up the TFTP Server on Your Laptop or on a Customer PC, if Necessary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548 Downloading G700 firmware files to your TFTP directory . . . . . . . . . . . 548 Downloading individual firmware files . . .
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Contents Release 3.1 upgrade scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590 Accessing the Server CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591 Accessing the S8300 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592 Before going to the customer site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592 Installing TFTP server or obt
