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Here is an overview of the steps required:
1 The installation technician installs the VCX server and the Media Gateway
in the branch office location, and connects the two devices to the branch
office network.
2 The installation technician contacts a system administrator in the
appropriate regional office and requests that the administrator stop the
Tomcat service that is running on the Primary Authentication and
Directory Server the Secondary Authentication and Directory Server.
Typically these two servers are located in different regional offices.
While the Tomcat process is shut down, access to the provisioning
interfaces at the regional offices is disabled.
3 After receiving confirmation that the Tomcat process has been stopped,
the installation technician applies power to both the VCX server and the
Media Gateway.
4 The VCX server and the Media Gateway each transmit a DHCP request,
and the branch office network gateway passes these requests on to the
corporate network where they are received by the DHCP server in a
regional office.
5 The DHCP requests include information which identifies the requesting
equipment and the DHCP server supplies to the VCX server and the
Media Gateway, information about a TFTP server and the file name of a
configuration file appropriate to each one.
6 Software on the VCX server and on the Media Gateway contacts the TFPT
server, downloads the appropriate configuration file and then applies the
information in the file for configuration purposes.
7 After an appropriate amount of time, typically a few minutes, the system
administrator in the regional office verifies that the VCX server and Media
Gateway in the branch office are functional and properly configured.
CAUTION: Wait until database replication between the branch office
database and the regional office replica database has been completed
before you enter any data such as telephones or users. To verify that
replication has been completed and that replication status is NORMAL,
use the checkReplication command. See the
VCX Administation Guide
for instructions.
8 The system administrator then restarts the Tomcat process on the Primary
Authentication and Directory Server and on the Secondary
Authentication and Directory Server.