Avaya Media Gateway G700 Manuale Utente

The R3.0 Communication Manager software and other files needed for the R3.1 upgrade are on 
the Server CD that you take to the customer site. You can make the Server CD available to the 
upgrade process in one of two ways:

●

Recommended: Place the CD in the CD-ROM drive on the technician’s laptop. This 
method requires that the Avaya TFTP Server software (available at 

) is 

installed on the technician’s laptop. In addition, this method requires that the S8300B does 
not have Communication Manager software installed on its hard drive.

or,

●

Place the CD in an external USB CD-ROM drive connected to one of the USB ports on the 
S8300 faceplate. This method works whether or not Communication Manager software is 
installed on the S8300B hard drive.

!

Important:

Before you go to the site, either you must have the TFTP server installed on your 
laptop (recommended), or you must have an external USB CD-ROM drive.

The new S8300B will normally not have Communication Manager software installed on its 
hard drive. You should check the S8300B that you will be installing before going to the site 
to determine whether you need to have the external USB CD-ROM drive. 

- If software is not installed, the hard drive label is “S8300B Hard Drive Without CM 

Software.” 

- If software is installed, the label indicates the software release. In this case, you must use 

the external USB CD-ROM drive because the TFTP server on your laptop will not work.

This chapter describes the upgrade procedure with the TFTP Server software installed on the 
laptop and using the laptop CD-ROM drive as source of the upgrade software. For instructions 
on obtaining and installing the Avaya TFTP Server, see 

.

To access the S8300 on-site, you normally connect the technician’s laptop directly to the 
Services port on the S8300 using a crossover cable. See 

on page 56 for instructions on accessing the S8300 and G700.