DEFINITY Enterprise Communications Server Release 7
Maintenance for R7r
555-230-126
Issue 4
June 1999
Additional Maintenance Procedures
6-6Software updates
6
Table 6-1. Software Update—Simplex SPE
Step
Time
(min) Remarks
change sys-par
maint
2 Note the current settings of the Save Translation and Alarm
Origination Activated fields and then set them to
n
. Set CPE
Alarm Activation Level to
none
. Make sure scheduled daily
maintenance is not set to run during the update.
save
announcements
40 These steps create a backup tape in case the update fails
and a backout is necessary. Saving announcements may be
skipped if
display announcements
shows no administered
announcements.
save translation
2
backup disk
10
Remove the
backup tape and
clean the tape
drive
5 This procedure is described under
‘‘TAPE’’
in
Chapter 9,
‘‘Maintenance Object Repair Procedures’’.
Insert the tape with
the new software
2 Wait for the tape to retension itself.
list config
software-version
5 Make sure the tape has the expected version number.
restore disk
install
10 This copies files from the new tape to disk. If you are
updating
from
a load earlier than 6.0, substitute for this step
the following sequence:
copy announce tape
,
save
translation tape
, then
restore disk full
.
The following step will result in the service effects described above.
upgrade software
to-version
10 Use the new software version number described above. The
system will reboot and then reload translations. Results of
each step in the upgrade process and initialization
diagnostics will be displayed on the terminal. A full
description of screen output appears in
upgrade software
in
Chapter 8, ‘‘Maintenance Commands’’
.
NOTE:
Be careful not to touch the G3-MT keyboard while
waiting for the command to execute, or the result
messages may be lost.
Login on the G3-MT.
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