Avaya S8700-Series, Installing And Configuring

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Contents
Installing and Configuring the Avaya S8700-Series Server May 2009
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Verifying connectivity to the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Verifying that the IPSIs are translated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Upgrading the IPSI firmware version (if necessary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Enabling control of the IPSIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Verifying the license status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Chapter 6: IP interface configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Connecting to the IPSIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
IPSI address configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Programming the IPSI for static addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Setting the VLAN and diffserv parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Programming the IPSI for DHCP addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Chapter 7: Postinstallation administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Verifying translations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Setting rules for daylight savings time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Setting locations (if necessary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Verifying the date and the time (main server only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Clearing and resolving alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Enabling and disabling the Ethernet switch ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Enabling alarms to INADS by way of a modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Enabling alarms to INADS by way of the SNMP module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Backing up files to the compact flash media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Before leaving the site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Chapter 8: Installation verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Testing the IPSI circuit pack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Testing the license file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
S8730 LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
S8710 and S8720 LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Additional server LED information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Avaya C360 Ethernet switch LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
UPS LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
TN2312BP IPSI LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Appendix A: Server access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Accessing the command line interface of the server with SSH . . . . . . . . . . 95