HiPath & Xpressions learning material

[ccmjgb]

Greetings,

HP4KSME, CMB001 & donb01 or sbcsu

per thread: thread965-1307045 there were mentions of HiPath 4000 & Xpressions admin material being generously offered. If any of you can please provide, this would be much appreciated. I have superficial knowledge that covers basic MAC work on HiPath 3800, IVM, Hipath 4000 and Xpressions, but would like to these systems better as I perform daily admin on them. I do have access to TAC for 2nd, 3rd level issues but obtaining detailed explanations/understanding is not always easily available. Could you please provide documentation that would assist me in getting well acquainted with these systems?

A glossary of AMO definitions would be useful. I hope to use the Manager E and HiPath Assistant GUI's to perform most of the admin, so any manuals or media that explain these interfaces would be appreciated.

Thank you!

ccmjgb
- Job 38:36

 

[sbcsu]

Hi
What version of HiPath 4000 do you have

 

[ccmjgb]

hi sbcsu, HiPath 4000 v.5

 

[sbcsu]

In V6 the manual is on the HiPath.
I will have a look but not today.

 

[Efik]

HI,
i am also interested in the document.
Can you FWD me the materials.

 

[ccmjgb]

thank you!

 

[Efik]

I have also the same version HiPath4000 v5 and Xpressions v5

Regards,

 

[gthurau]

Do you know where i can get Hi-path 4000 manuals?

 

[sbcsu]

Hi,
Do any of you have access to SEBA?
All of the documents are on there for V5.
If not do you have a specific document in mind?
Failing that I could post them all to an FTP server if you all are interested..?

 

[donb01]

I have the V5 AMO manual, but it is the PDF version. You don't get it all unless you have the HTML document, which has burned my bonnet more than once when I'm trying to fix a problem and you get the teaser stuff and then it says "Full details are in the HTML version of this document".

The file is huge - like close to 30MB - I don't really have a good place to put it because as soon as I post it I won't be able to delete it because 6 months from now someone will read the thread and still want the file.....

 

[sbcsu]

Right,
I HAD a hard disk with a lot of stuff on it but it crashed (Thanks Google Music!)
I will setup a server with an FTP server and post the link here with hopefully ALL the Version 5 documents.
Hopefully mother Siemens wont mind???

 

[ccmjgb]

yes, found the .pdf's on SEBA and downloaded them... is it possible to store the HTML version on you PC for reference? I'm assuming that the zip is for this, but do not know how toget this set-up - any ideas?

Thank you!

 

[sbcsu]

You get a choice of PDF, HTML or ZIP
The HTML is larger, you can store it on your computer, just click on the 'index.html' to open.

 

[ccmjgb]

i tried this, but it will only save the index.htm (very small file) and it goes nowhere when clicked... ?

 

[ccmjgb]

ahhh... never mind sbcsu, downloaded the .zip and extracted, then clicked the index.htm and it opened up the HTML version locally - thank you!

 

[donb01]

I don't have access to SEBA - usually the engineers will slip me stuff when they're trying to sell me an upgrade or one of the techs will have it. I am SUPPOSED to be upgrading all 7 sites to 4000 V6, and built into that budget I have me going to Texas to get high level tech training so I can get as close to "certified" as Siemens lets you get. Then supposedly I won't have access to SEBA, but I will have access to some other portal that does not have proprietary information on it for their vendors, but would have the tech bulletins, hot fixes and the like on it. My organization is being stupid right now and making me re-bid everything, and one Avaya vendor was within 25K last time so who knows what's going to happen. I pretty much have the IT people convinced we don't want to do a forklift upgrade on 7 sites when it will be so easy and transparent to roll the 9006 to the HP4K (I already have one that's been running over 3 years without a glitch, so I have proof), but I know of at least on other hospital within 50 miles of me who had their upgrade path planned and some senior leader made a deal with a vendor selling a different product on the golf course. It took them 2 years to dig out and get the system stable... If that happened here I would be out of a job, even though it was a group of people who had no concept of what they were doing making the decision.... sigh...

 

[ccmjgb]

have you bid out Cisco? not every application is well-suited for Cisco due to the need for LAN gear upgrades which can be pretty costly, plus the cabling needed to support PoE IPT vs. single pair digital and not to mention, the significant power draw that all the cisco gear may have over a TDM PBX... but cisco is much easier to admin - there are a few features on the cisco IPT platform that do not cross over from TDM, but many more do and the IPT platform offers several exclusive capabilites that are pretty useful... hopefully your org. keeps Siemens or considers cisco (from your ease of admin point of view) the very few times I dealt with avaya - very unfavorable experience...

 

[sbcsu]

Hi donb01
During the weekend I will re-setup a server here with FTP or SFTP and put all of the V5 stuff on it, or is it V6 that you prefer?
As you probably know V6 is different in the OS way

 

[donb01]

Thanks sbcsu.

I am still V5 for right now until the saga plays out so I suppose we should go that direction for now. I think if I take the classes I will get access to all of that documentation. I know V6 runs on linux - I don't know why that is supposed to scare me because I have been running linux at home for my own personal servers and a couple of small non-profits for close to 15 years. Before that I did unix and Xenix. Really other than the directories being in different places on some systems I have never really noticed a ton of difference. I suppose I should respect the techs knowing things I don't know that might suck, but I'm not there yet. I'm sure Siemens isn't going to toss KDE or Webmin on there just to make it easy for us though!

 

[ccmjgb]

sbcsu, donb01,

could either of you provide basic direction on setting up an Xpressions Auto Attendant with dial by name only option and a couple optional routing options (including leave a general voice mail)...?

thank you for any input!

ccmjgb
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