Parnter ACS Upgrades. 1

[dciscott]

I am having problems understanding how to upgrade Parnetr ACS 3.0's and higher. Can someone explain how to upgrade ACS 3.0 to 4.0 and ACS 4.0 to 5.0?

 

[pjolly]

The first step is most important...back up your programming! At extension 10 or 11, press feature 00, press left intercom button twice, press the pound key and enter 124. When prompted on display, press "enter" (found on programming overlay).
After backin up, power down and insert your upgrade card, then power up. The system should recognize the upgrade and support all upgraded functionalities.

 

[dciscott]

Thanks pjolly, thats what I thought but have encountered tropubles doing this but I will attempt again. This is only a forward upgrade right? And i can't take a translation from a 3.0 and upgrade it to a 4.0 or a 5.0 correct? I don't belive that is possible.

 

[ttech]

DCISCOTT,

Backing up the system prior to the upgrade is almost Useless unless you have a spare R3 processor to put in there if something goes wrong. The Saved Translations are Release Specific. You cannot Restore an R3 backup onto a R5 processor.

But as fare as the upgrade goes it is pretty simple Just power doen the system and remove any exising PCMCIA Cards and install the upgrade card and power it back up. The light on the proc will flash red and green and after about 20 seconds it goes solid green and you are good to go.

Don

 

[392]

Don't worry about backing up the system BEFORE an upgrade, but you better do it AFTER! The translation conversion is accomplished on the CPU as it is powered up and upgrades, leaving an upgraded translation image on the processor and the old translation on the backup. If you lose power with bad batteries or whatever and corrupt or erase the programming found only on the CPU, you'll have to default the switch and program from scratch.

You cannot "downgrade" a CPU from 5 to 4 or such. (If anyone knows how to do a factory erase to R.zero ready for firmware flash, let us know!) If you install an upgrade card and power up and it does not flash red (indicating an upgrade in progress), turn off, reseat the card and try again. If it still does not work, chances are excellent the card was a one-time-use card which was already used. The card can be "reloaded" to flash again/another.

Yes, you can upgrade an ACS R1.1 and upgrade it to an R5 in one flash. You do not have to step it up a release at a time. You can also flash to a minor release, ie 3.0.1 to 3.0.5. Lucent sent out some multi-use flash cards to Business Partners to correct a major flaw in 3.0.1 and 3.0.2 firmware to make a minimum release of 3.0.3 acceptable for use. A lot of those cards are around, they can be reloaded to flash up to R5.