Viewing data on Flashcard

[leosayer]

Hi all,

We are having a bit of a contract dispute with our BP. The only evidence that we have in terms of number of Licences that were held before an upgrade to S8720's from old Definity a few years ago is the old flashcards.

Is there any method of veiwing the data in a readable format on the flashcards.

Apologies of being vague, but the upgrade was before my time. No thing in doc's or contract about number of RTU's to upgrade.

All thoughts are appreciated

 

[lopes1211]

Best bet would be to put the card back in a definity system and boot it up to print the system reports. Do you still know the login/password and the system model/release it was?

-CL

 

[leosayer]

Hi,

The old system was ditched, so all I have is the flashcard.

As we are in dispute with the BP, don't really want to hand it over to them.

Are Avaya and a BP the only way?

 

[telcoguy]

Definity licenses were always managed by Avaya (and before Lucent an AT&T)directly. The license files as used today did not exist yet. They would call into the system and flip some flags to enable features.They have/had a system that held all the purchased keys/items for a system. May be worth while to give them a call directly. If you can prove that you owned that system, they may be able to help you.
What I also maybe should explain to you that at some point in time the license model changed. In short; when the number of users and features were limited by the hardware, the number of licenses were set to the system maximum, as you could never use them anyway without the purchase of hardware.
When the market started to change, the licences became chargable at upgrade time, resulting in huge amounts for an upgrade.
Most companies I know, reduced the number of licences to more realistic numbers, or BP's did that for them.
So i'm not saying this is your thing with the BP, but your company may have benefitted in a weird way.

 

[lopes1211]

Lots of people have lab systems to print your reports from your flashcards. Exc point by telcoguy though. Lots of stuff changed "license wise" between releases so you're company may not have paid for the higher "offer level" enterprise/basic or/nor upgraded all ports or just may have an issue with changes in port licenses.

Case in point.... R12 port RTU was stations+trunks. Maybe someone had 1000 R12 station/trunk RTU ports. R14/CM4, trunks are free/unlimited. If the 1000 port R12 had 200 trunks, the upgraded system would be licensed for 800 STATION ports. The 200 trunk ports are no longer licensed as they are unlimited all the way to platform maximum limit. 1000 station/trunk - 200 trunks = 800 STATION ONLY RTU. Without knowing your exact complaint/issue, it's hard to determine if there is a valid complaint/discrepancy.

-CL