Cisco DNCS System Release 2.7 3.7 4.2 Installation Guide
What Are Your Installation Tasks?
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Phase Three: Test New Software
When? Cisco recommends that you complete this phase during a maintenance
When? Cisco recommends that you complete this phase during a maintenance
window, unless you are loading software for a device that is not currently used in
your network.
1 Run the Doctor utility to verify that the system is operating correctly.
2 For OSM downloads, download the software using the OSM method.
3 For CVT downloads, complete the following:
1 Run the Doctor utility to verify that the system is operating correctly.
2 For OSM downloads, download the software using the OSM method.
3 For CVT downloads, complete the following:
Pre-check QAM communications
Download the software using the CVT method (either normal or immediate)
Post-check QAM communications
4 Before you begin Phase Four, you need to wait either:
1 week if you used a normal (deferred) download
24 hours if you used an immediate download
Phase Four: Clean Up
When? Cisco recommends that you complete this phase during a maintenance
When? Cisco recommends that you complete this phase during a maintenance
window.
1 Force an immediate download to force the devices that have not already loaded
1 Force an immediate download to force the devices that have not already loaded
the current software to update.
2 After downloading software to two-way devices, you need to complete the
following:
Run the dhctStatus utility to identify devices that did not download the new
software.
Use the IHH utilities to reboot DHCTs and to download the new software.
Run the dhctStatus utility again to confirm that all devices downloaded the
new software.
3 After downloading software to one-way devices, manually check a sample of
installed devices to verify that the devices downloaded the new software.