Software Upgrade Procedures

[PhoneGuyy]

I am doing a software upgrade from 4.5 to 5.5 this weekend and was wondering if anyone had any step by step procedures.

Also, going to be installing 2 signaling servers and was wondering if anyone had a procedures or steps on that.

I know there are in the NTP's, but sometimes those are a bit wrong or there are things people in the field have done to make things faster.

One last thing doesn anybody have any approximate times on how long these take.

Thanks in Advance....

 

[tnphoneman]

The NTPs are a good place to look. It is too long of a procedure to document here. Besides someone has already done it for us.

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[PhoneGuyy]

I know about the NTP's was wondering if people had any tips or things that would make things go smoother

 

[tnphoneman]

Nope NTPs have been good for me.

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[Triton101]

tnphoneman's suggestion is best.

what you might want to do is go over the procedures in the NTPs and then post any questions you have that are not clear as part of the NTPs procedures.....

Sig servers are pretty fast, but make sure they meet the minimum requirements for memory, (not sure about 5.5 but 5 needs 1 gig memory )

The Call server (PBX) is dependent if it's just software, if you are upgrading the hardware, then it's difficult to even suggest.

Good luck.

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[PhoneGuyy]

I am just upgrading the software in the PBX itself, So the sig servers need min memory of 1 gig where?

 

[danlwh]

The sig servers do require 1 meg in 5.5 also. I think the only way to see what memory it has is to hhok up serially and it will tell you at the beginning of the boot up how much memory is installed.

 

[Triton101]

RAM

ISP1100 Signaling Server required 1 gig ram for Suc 5, not sure about 5.5

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[PhoneGuyy]

Yes sorry got blank for a minute I have 1 gig ram on each sig server....

 

[danlwh]

I assume this is a large system? If is was a small system and you are adding signaling servers you would have to upgrade the call server hardware too. The upgrade procedure in the NTPs for the large system is pretty straight and simple to follow.

 

[PhoneGuyy]

yea it is a large system with the columns

 

[esoare]

Check the NTP. Log the password for the Signalling Servers.
After it syncs up to the Call Server, the admin2 will get you in. Make sure you have admin2 capabilities.

So you set up the 1st signalling server. (install software etc)

Then on the second signalling server (install software and point to 1st ss to get config and such) been awhile 2 years on a 4.0.

That's the only thing that really through me.
There is the "default" ss password, and then after it syncs, it uses passwords of the switch / call processors.
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