Avaya 6.3 to 7 - question about docs on support.avaya.com

[phoneguy55]

So I'm starting the process to plan our Avaya 6.3 to 7 upgrade. Moving from System Platform to AVP. I'm reading all the docs and planning out the process. I'm use to having to read several Avaya docs in order to get the full picture. I'm curious if its just me but the docs on support.avaya.com are all over the place. For example, a doc about Session Manager contains parts of CM, AES, System Manager upgrades. Its like someone wrote all the docs printed all the pages. Shuffled all the papers and then randomly created 300 page docs out of the stack.

Curious if anyone else feels this way or is it just me? Thanks.

 

[kyle555]

I guess maybe the best way I'd describe it is around 7.x they started documenting Avaya Aura as a product. So, there's Avaya Aura 7.1 Feature pack 3 Release Notes that contain all the bug fixes/enhancements for all the elements within aura - CM/AAM/SM/SMGR/etc

If you really had your ducks in a row re:NTP/DNS/FQDNs on your System Platform servers, SMGR 7.1.3 can flip a System Platform to AVP remotely and do all the "system platform" level stuff for each box you had previously.

8.0 can even login to support.avaya.com with your SSO and your customer/FL#, download what you're entitled to into SMGR's inventory and deploy the VMs. It can even register them for SAL via support.avaya.com too. Really awesome stuff if you've got the time and complexity to warrant it. Like, it'd be awesome to automagically schedule patches for your BSMs and LSPs to always be current so the one day you need a new CM service pack for a bug, you don't have 100 LSPs to do first.
If you only have 1 LSP, then you don't really care