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■Extracts the CAB file from the DMF file.

■Extracts the installation files from the CAB file.

■Runs the setup.

Table 9 lists a comparison of the installation methods.

Table 9 Upgrade Option Comparison

Option

Advantages

Disadvantages

 

 

 

 

IP Telephony Manager

■ Includes all necessary tools

■

Must install IP Telephony

 

■

Can perform remotely

 

Manager first

 

 

 

 

■ Can upgrade more than one

 

 

 

 

card at a time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Serial Connection

■

Minimal software requirement

■

Requires a local connection

 

 

(ordinary serial

 

between NIC and computer

 

 

communications program)

■

Requires an unusual cable

 

 

 

 

 

 

■ Can upgrade only one card

 

 

 

 

at a time

 

 

 

 

 

MIB Browser / TFTP Server

■

Can perform remotely

■

Requires specialized

 

 

 

 

software

 

 

 

■

Unfriendly user interface

 

 

 

 

 

Upgrading the After you have decided what method you want to install the upgrades, you are Software ready to upgrade your system with the current software.

If you need to reload the same version of the software on the Back-end

Servers, you must uninstall the Back-end Server software first.

As an example, the procedures in this section refer to the CommWorks IP Telephony Media Gateway, specifically the HiPer DSP and HiPer NMC cards.

The software is released as two ZIP files, one for the HiPer DSP and one for the HiPer NMC.

1Extract the DMF files using the UNIX unzip command. The following table lists the contents of the zip file: Table 10 Zip File Contents

Card

ZIP file

Contents of ZIP file

Contents of EXE file

 

 

 

 

HiPer DSP

hdm02xxxx.zip

hd02xxxx.dmf

n/a

 

 

hr02xxxx.dmf

 

 

 

 

 

HiPer NMC

nmcdisk3.zip

hipernmc.exe

hm0704xx.dmf

 

 

 

 

 

 

nmcmibs.exe

several MIB files

 

 

 

 

2Copy the DMF files to the /opt/tcm/data/sdl directory.

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5210 specifications

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