Cisco Headend System Release 2.5 Installation Guide

Cisco

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Contents

About This Guide

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Chapter 1 SR i4.2.2 DVD Pre-Upgrade Procedures

Important Points About the Upgrade ................................................................................... 3

Plan What Optional Features Will be Supported ................................................................ 4

Back Up the File Systems ........................................................................................................ 5

Run the Doctor Report ............................................................................................................ 8

Examine Disks and Mirrored Devices ................................................................................ 10

Verify That the Boot Device is Properly Configured ........................................................ 14

Run the clearDbSessions Utility ........................................................................................... 15

Examine Key Files .................................................................................................................. 16

Back Up Various Data Files .................................................................................................. 18

Verify System Communications .......................................................................................... 19

Check the Number of BFS Sessions ..................................................................................... 21

Obtain System Configuration .............................................................................................. 22

Collect System Information .................................................................................................. 24

Check the Time to Live Parameter ...................................................................................... 26

Stop the dhctStatus, signonCount and cmd2000 Processes ............................................. 30

Chapter 2 SR i4.2.2 DVD Upgrade Procedures

Upgrade the SR i4.2.2 Software ............................................................................................ 34

Build the DNCS Database ..................................................................................................... 41

Run the APP_postinstall Script ............................................................................................ 42

Start the DNCS Processes and Check Log Files ................................................................. 43

Attach Mirrors ........................................................................................................................ 45

Chapter 3 SR i4.2.2 Common Upgrade Procedures

Stop the cron Jobs on the DNCS .......................................................................................... 48

Check Installed Version Numbers on the DNCS .............................................................. 49

Edit the .profile File ............................................................................................................... 51

Enable rdate on the DNCS .................................................................................................... 53

Run the configureASI.pl Script ............................................................................................ 54

Install the ASI Card ............................................................................................................... 55

Boot the DNCS ....................................................................................................................... 56

Configure/Verify the ASI Card ........................................................................................... 57

Check the Status of the ASI Card ......................................................................................... 58

Stop the cron Jobs on the DNCS .......................................................................................... 59

Upgrade the Application Server Software ......................................................................... 60