[cisco-voip] Upgrade / DST Advice

[Jonathan Charles]

How do you apply the Java update for Unity?



Jonathan

On 3/2/07, Voll, Scott <Scott.Voll at wesd.org> wrote:
>
> Upgrade to the newest because cisco at some point will not support 4.2,
> 4.3, etc.  not that I have moved off 4.3 but it's the nature of the
> beast.
>
> If you are planning to move to CM 5 you don't want to move to 4.2 as
> there is no path to 5.x from there.  Move to 4.1.3 if you plan to
> upgrade to 5.
>
> Unity you just need the windows update and you also need to upgrade the
> Java... at least on 4.0.5.  I don't know for 4.1 for sure.
>
> Phone load:  my guess it's for someone who has not upgraded to the 8.2
> firmware but needs the patch.
>
> I for one like the extra day light after I go home...... but I'm really
> going to be cranked if they move it back next year as this is only a
> test year.
>
> Scott
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Rhodes, Geoff
> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 7:59 AM
> To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [cisco-voip] Upgrade / DST Advice
>
> I hate to beat a dead horse, so please accept my apology in advance.  In
> going over the DST issues and trying to plan our strategy, a couple of
> questions popped up.  First let me give the version of what we are
> running:
>
> Call Manager
> 4.1(2)es40
> OS - 2000.4.2sr12
>
> Unity
> 4.1(1)
> Windows 2000 SP4
> TSP Version : 8.0(2)
> CSA Agent Version: 4.0.3.728
> SQL Version: SQL 2000 - 8.00.760 (SP4 I think)
>
> Phones
> Mostly 7970G with a few 7960s.
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> In planning our DST upgrades, I see I need to upgrade the OS on the CM
> boxes to either 200.4.2sr15, 2000.4.3aSR8 or 2000.4.4asr3a.  My question
> is, why would I upgrade to the newest release (4.4) instead of 4.2 or
> 4.3 ?
>
> For Call Manager itself, the upgrade doc states I need to upgrade to
> either 4.1(3) or 4.2(3).  Again, why *wouldn't* I not upgrade to 4.2 ?
>
> For Unity, I think I need to upgrade to 4.2 and then do the normal
> Microsoft upgrades and patches for a Win2k server.  This seems too easy,
> but you never know.
>
> For the phones, I understand the 7960 units get their time from the CM
> server, so that's ok.  For the 7970s, I have a few users running the
> 8.2.1 firmware over the last month and it seems fine.  Today I see Cisco
> released 8.0.4sr3a.  Once again, why would someone upgrade to 8.0.4 when
> 8.2.1 has been released for a while (when the CM is 4.x) ?
>
> Curse Congress for making this change.  Most non-IT folks don't even
> know about the change, let alone the hassles the IT community is going
> through.  ARGH....
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Geoff Rhodes
> Director, Information Technology
> Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A.
> 704 / 377-8188
> grhodes at rbh.com
>
>
>
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