Avaya G700, Installing And Upgrading, Page: 724 / 808

Manual upgrade of an existing S8300B and G700 to S8300C with R4.0
724 Installing and Upgrading the Avaya G700 Media Gateway and Avaya S8300 Media Server
Verifying connectivity
To verify that the Ethernet port is working, ping the FTP server where the backup file(s) are
stored.
To verify connectivity
1. On the Maintenance Web Interface, under Diagnostics click Ping .
2. Enter the IP address where the backup files are stored.
3. Click Execute Ping .
If the ping is successful, continue with restoring the system files. Otherwise, check the IP
address and connectivity to the server.
Disabling RAM disk on the media server
You must disable RAM disk prior to restoring the S8300 configuration data. To disable RAM
disk, perform the following steps:
1. Access the server’s command line interface using an SSH client, like PuTTY, and an IP
address of 192.11.13.6 .
2. At the command line, type
sudo ramdisk -v -f disabled
, and press Enter
.
The system does not display any information to the screen if there are no errors.
3. At the command line, type
ramdisk -v -s
and press Enter .
Rebooting the media server
To reboot the media server, perform the following steps:
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CAUTION:
CAUTION:
Be sure the DVD/CD-ROM drive is not connected.
1. On the Maintenance Web Interface, under Server select Shutdown Server .
2. Select the Delayed Shutdown option. Also, be sure the Restart server after shutdown
checkbox is selected.
3. Click the Shutdown button.
Click OK to confirm.
4. At the command line, type
ramdisk -v -s
and press Enter .
Confirm that the system has disabled RAM disk.