[cisco-voip] Manually upload phone loads prior to upgrading

[Jason Aarons (US)]

I have a customer wanting the opposite. They want to keep the same phone loads they have today and upgrade them later separate from the 4x to 7x upgrade.  Here is my plan, anyone tried this? They have about 6000+ phones we don't want changing loads.


These are the device defaults we are going to keep, any other model phones (e.g. 7936/7937/7921/7925) we are going to let upgrade firmware. The thought is the vast majority will keep the same load they already have. You can then manually go into Device > Phone and set the load you want to test.   If you want me to add another model phone let me know. Once the new Publisher comes up I will install these COP files and modify the device defaults before bring up any subscribers (which also get these files uploaded).

This is the model and version of firmware they have today based upon CCMAdmin and will keep;
cmterm-7911_7906-sccp.8-3-3SR2.cop.sgn
cmterm-7912-8.0.3-sccp.cop.sgn
cmterm-7940-7960-sccp.8-0-7.cop.sgn
cmterm-7941_7961-sccp.8-3-5.cop.sgn
cmterm-7942_7962-sccp.8-3-3SR2.cop.sgn


From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Gregory Wenzel
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 6:55 AM
To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: [cisco-voip] Manually upload phone loads prior to upgrading

I've heard this thrown around the blogs but never thought about it. Now I find myself needing this so I ask the group -"Whats the best way to manually upload new phone loads"- prior to upgrading call manager to any version but most likely 5 to 7 or 8

Should I add the new load to the flash of each gateway and force phones into srst to upload the new load?
Is this right or what other way is the best way?



TIA

~greg








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