Upgrading G3rV4 and R5/6/7/8r to Avaya DEFINITY
Server R running Avaya Communication Manager
555-233-115
2-22
Issue 7 November 2003
Disable Scheduled Maintenance and Alarm
Origination
1. To prevent scheduled daily maintenance from interfering with the update or
upgrade, type change system-parameters maintenance and press
Enter
.
2. If scheduled maintenance has begun, set the
Stop Time
field to 1 minute
after the current time.
or
If scheduled maintenance has not begun, set the
Start Time
field to at
least 8 hours after the upgrade starts. For example, if you start the upgrade
at 8:00 p.m., set the
Start Time
field to 04:00.
!
CAUTION:
If you do not disable Alarm Origination, the system may generate
alarms, resulting in unnecessary trouble tickets.
3. Type neither in the
Alarm Origination to OSS Numbers
field and
press
Enter.
NOTE:
For some software loads, set the
Alarm Origination
Activated
field to n and set the
Cleared Alarm Notification
and
Restart Notification
fields to disable or n before pressing
Enter
.
Busyout MMI Circuit Packs (High/Critical
reliability only—if necessary)
!
CAUTION:
Multimedia-to-voice station calls are not preserved on an upgrade. Failure to
busy-out the TN787 Multimedia Interface (MMI) circuit packs results in
unusable TN787 and TN788 Multimedia Voice Conditioner ports.
1. Type display system-parameters customer-options and press
Enter
.
Find the Multimedia Call Handling (MMCH) options and check the
Basic
and
Enhanced
fields.
2. If either the
Basic
or
Enhanced
field is y, type list configuration all and
press
Enter
to locate all MMI (TN787) circuit packs.
3. If there are MMI circuit packs, type busyout board UUCSS and press
Enter
to remove the circuit packs from service.