CAN YOU UPGRADE MULTIPLE IP OFFICES (700-900) AT ONCE. 3

[Rchirino]

I have a customer that have a lot of IPO's and they want to upgrade all their IPO's but the only way I know id one by one. They have about 700 to 900 IPO's.

Thanks

 

[CarGoSki]

You possibly could if they were all upgraded to the same release and all could be seen by Manager.

But. I would not personally do it that way since one should test after upgrading and since there could be some failures for any number of reasons.

 

[smokinjoe2938]

Even if you could I would never do that, like CarGoSki stated; you will need to test each site after upgrade

 

[Rchirino]

I though that Avaya had a tool to do this but I cannot find anything on it. I think this is going to be a one by one case. Thank you

 

[mkoker]

I have done it in a lab setting using SCN Discovery going through the control unit for the upgrade. As everyone else stated, i would advise against a live deployment.

 

[holdmusic34]

900? Like painting the Golden gate bridge, you'll be ready to start again on the other side by the time you've finished. This would keep someone permanently gainfully employed.

You lose, Carl Miller.

 

[Gunnaro]

700 - 900 systems? So give or take a hundred(!) IPO's?
Must be a nonchalant business, not knowing their inventory.

700 SD cards will roughly accumulate 1 Terra Byte worth of transfer, and Manager would be brought down on it's knees.

But it would have been nice if the Backup SD could download the files directly from Avaya, then sync to the System SD later.

Kind regards

Gunnar
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Mille viae ducunt homines per saecula Romam

 

[yankblan]

I'm guessing he's a National; better make those partners work!

ACSS-SME

http://interconnexionsld.ca/

 

[Rchirino]

I want to Thank everybody for their input. I think we may have a better shot if we upgrade 50 IPOs at a time. I'm getting feed back from retailers that have done it by upgrading the manager computer and the network cards. I will continue to research this with the manufacture and post an update if we do a batch of IPOs.
Thank you

 

[intrigrant]

If you have that many IP Office then you must buiy a equalk number of uograde licenses.
Go to Avaya and say : I need 700 uograde license but then you must deliver sofware to upgrade 100 systems with one strike.
80% change they will deliver. It may very well already excist within Avaya.

 

[Richard10d]

Might I recommend a progressive approach. Do 2-4 the first time, see how it goes, then move to 6-8. Find a number that doesn't feel impossible. 50 sounds like a LOT for manager to not barf on. It takes a very long time these days to upgrade non local machines with the 2000 files it TFTPs after the upgrade. I would be afraid manager would choke with 50 machines, but could be wrong.

 

[derfloh]

2000 files? The last upgrades up to 9.1 transferred about 3600 files... Complete Web Management needs really much small files to be uploaded what needs really much time. I wished the IPO would be faster in letting these files come in...

 

[telecomtekperson]

Remember that the IPO can be managed by System Manager. So if you license these as a Branch, even though they function as a standalone IPO, then you can use System Manager to roll out the upgrades.

Talk to your Avaya SE, and hope they are not a generalist in Avaya but an IP office specialist in IP office. (yes, that is my pot shot at Avaya your new rollout of engineers that come from the Aura side of the business SUCK!)

 

[amriddle01]

Edit the filelist.txt file and remove what you never use, I take out all web management files and unused languages, comes down to well below 1000 files and upgrades/recreates are much faster

 

[tlpeter]

I like the web management.
But I just recreate the card when I can and get done good coffee.

BAZINGA!

I'm not insane, my mother had me tested!

 

[Gunnaro]

I can at least confirm 10 IPO's goes well, done that kind of upgrade for 5 years now on a customer in SCN.
Phones pull the files from a webserver, not the IPO or Manager. I believe that is an important factor.

Kind regards

Gunnar
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Mille viae ducunt homines per saecula Romam

 

[crumthwacket]

intigrant - I hope you're right - I would be impressed if Avaya did what you think they might. Here's a star for your positive attitude (and I also hope it motivates Avaya to do some good things for us, the real customers)