Upgrading a Single-Site System With Four Servers 181
Upgrading the
Primary IP Telephony
Server
Follow the steps in this section to upgrade the primary IP Telephony
server.
1To start the upgrade process, enter these commands on the primary IP
Telephony server:
cd /opt/installtemp
tar xvf vcx-softswitch-7.1.xc.tar
cd upgrade-7.1.xc
./install-upgrade
The system may prompt you to confirm that a new operating system
version will be installed and indicates which disk partition will be used
after the upgrade. If you see such a prompt, answer y.
The system displays several status messages. The last two messages are:
------------------- Installation Completed Successfully -------------------
------------------- VCX version 7.1.xc is now available -------------------
2Switch to the new software version by entering the following command:
vcx-switchversion 7.1.xc
The system displays several status messages and provides prompts that
allow you enable Adhoc Conferencing and UPS Monitoring.
3The Adhoc Conferencing prompt appears:
In order to support "ad-hoc" conferences with more than 3
participants, the Adhoc Conference Service is used. This
service should be enabled on this server, unless another
server dedicated to Adhoc Conferencing will be used instead.
If available, a separate server typically provides greater
capacity and may be shared among sites.
Use the Adhoc service on this server? (Y/N) [Y] :
If you want this server to act as a multi-caller (up to 6 callers)
conferencing server, enter y. If not, enter n.
4The UPS Monitoring prompt appears:
An Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) can be used with VCX
systems to avoid disruption due to a power outage. VCX
provides a UPS monitoring service which tracks the UPS's
status and performs a safe shutdown when the its battery is
depleted during a long power outage. To use this feature,
you must have a compatible UPS installed and configured in
accordance with the VCX documentation.