Setting Up the Hardware

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In this chapter, you do the following tasks in the order listed:

1.If the Cisco Unity system is using voice cards to integrate with a circuit-switched phone system: Install voice cards. See the “Installing Voice Cards” section on page 3-1.

2.Set up the Cisco Unity server. See the “Attaching Peripheral Devices and Making Connections from the Phone System” section on page 3-4.

When you are finished with this chapter, return to Chapter 1, “Overview of Mandatory Tasks for Installing Cisco Unity,” to continue installing the Cisco Unity system correctly.

Note The tasks in the list reference detailed instructions in the Cisco Unity installation guide and in other Cisco Unity documentation. Follow the documentation for a successful installation.

Installing Voice Cards

Note If the system is not using voice cards to integrate with a circuit-switched phone system, skip this section.

All voice cards must be installed in the same server or in the same expansion chassis. If all voice cards do not fit in the Cisco Unity server, then you must install all of them in an expansion chassis.

All Cisco Unity-compatible voice cards are 33-MHz PCI cards. Universal PCI (uPCI) cards work in either 5-Vdc or 3.3-Vdc PCI and PCI-X slots, while non-universal PCI cards work only in 33-MHz (5-Vdc) slots.

If you are installing a uPCI voice card, you can generally place the card in any physically compatible slot in the server or expansion chassis. However, if the slot you choose is a 3.3-Vdc PCI or PCI-X slot (designed to be 66 MHz or faster), that slot and the slot adjacent to it on the same logical PCI bus segment will slow down to 33 MHz to accommodate the 33-MHz card. (For example, if a 33-MHz voice card is placed in a PCI-X slot next to a 133-MHz RAID controller and they share the same logical segment, the RAID controller speed is reduced to 33 MHz.)

Refer to the manufacturer documentation for detailed PCI bus topology information before deciding final slot placement of 3.3-Vdc or 5-Vdc, 33-MHz voice cards.

Note that if you view a voice card by using Windows Device Manager, the card may be displayed as an unknown PCI device, with a warning stating that the drivers for the device are not installed. A Found New Hardware wizard may also appear for each card during installation or when the Cisco Unity server is restarted. These conditions are both expected behavior, and do not indicate an error or a condition

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