Board Removal And Renumber On Magix

[392]

Incredible as it may seem, in all my years working on Legends and Magix, I've never had to renumber boards on an operational system except in a total reconfig and reprogram.

Scenario: 3 cabinet Legend upgraded to Magix 4.0. 2nd cab has an unsupported 400 card in it. All trunks appear on modules prior to the 400, only stations after. I need to pull the 400 to clean up the system and free a slot for future use.

Question: if I pull the 400 and move all modules left one slot and do a board renumber, will it just reassign logical IDs and move the extensions and their programming over to their new slots and LIDs?

TIA!

 

[tdaugirdas]

What boards are after the 400? If they are extension vs. trunk cards - nothing should change - since the extension numbers have not been affected. In fact, when the Legend processor was upgraded to Magix 4.0, a "frigid" start (which includes a board renumber) already occurred. However, I am not sure about whether any "local" programming that was done at the extensions will be retained - once you shift the boards left one notch. They should be retained - but I'm not sure. To be safe - I would do a "back-up" before hand - so you can always restore it to the way it was - and worry about the extra slot on a long weekend when you have time to reprogram - if necessary.

Tom Daugirdas,
President
STCG, Inc.
stcg.com

 

[392]

They're all 008, 016 and 012 cards that follow the 400. The upgrade didn't really renumber the system, as a current translation file was converted from R7 to Magix 4.0 and restored with the 400 in place without any changes.

So your thought is that all modules will just shift slot numbers, logicals will be reassigned and all the extensions will just travel with the move and retain their programming?

I worry that the system will see 7 "new" cards and just consecutively renumber all the extensions on the modules per dial plan, leaving me to renumber every port, add back every feature and cover group and route, every restriction and all the rest, not to mention the loss of personal speed dials, button programming, line appearance, etc, etc & etc.

 

[tdaugirdas]

Theoretically (because you are not impacting the logical ID's) - yes - the board renumbering should keep everything intact. However, I would not bet my life on it - which is why I would have a "backup" ready. It's not like rteplacing an 8-port board with a 16-port board - which really screws things up, you are just deleting a slot.

Tom Daugirdas,
President
STCG, Inc.
stcg.com

 

[Primer00]

If you remove the 400 card and move all the station cards to the left 1 slot everything will remain as is. To do this you power off the system, unplug the card, remove the 400 and move the cards. After power up you do a board renumber. Should be fine.

 

[merlinman]

Just in case, Do a BACKUP First.

 

[392]

Thnx all - I'll post what actually happens when I make the 400 disappear.