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Fourth, upgrade the branch offices, starting with any that are hosted by the primary regional office.

Upgrading a Multiple Use this section to upgrade a two region office configuration where the Site Configuration regional offices use global messaging and the branch offices use local

messaging configurations.

The software upgrade package is provided by 3Com or your authorized 3Com reseller and must be installed using the following sequence of steps.

1Untar the upgrade tar file(s) and copy them to the EMS server in the <EMS_INSTALL_DIR>/software_upgrades/voice/SystemUpgrades directory. This includes any software for the VCX data server, IP Messaging server, and/or the VCX call processing server.

2If you have a replicated system, clear any replication errors before performing an upgrade, otherwise, go to step 3.

a From the EMS client explorer tree, for each VCX data server you want to drop replication from, click 3Com VCX IP Telephony Server.

b Right-click3Com VCX IP Telephony Server, select Database Replication, and then click Clear Replication Errors.

You can only delete replication errors on regional offices, not on branch offices.

3Stop Tomcat on the region 1 and 2 VCX call processing server.

a From the EMS client explorer tree, for the region 1 VCX call processing server, click 3Com VCX IP Telephony Server.

b Right-click3Com VCX IP Telephony Server, select Web Provisioning, and then click Disable Web Provisioning.

c From the EMS client explorer tree, for the region 2 VCX call processing server, click 3Com VCX IP Telephony Server.

d Right-click3Com VCX IP Telephony Server, select Web Provisioning, and then click Disable Web Provisioning.

4Stop replication between the region 1 and 2 VCX data servers.

a From the EMS client explorer tree, for the region 1 VCX data server, click 3Com VCX IP Telephony Server.

b Right-click3Com VCX IP Telephony Server, select Database Replication, and then click Drop Replication.

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