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

[Wes Sisk]

TFTP clients retrieve files from CM's TFTP server without any issue.  
Just GET the file names you need.

/Wes



On Wednesday, June 16, 2010 11:14:51 AM, Brandon Bennett 
<bennetb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to easily extract the phone loads off of either the 
> CUCM tftp server or from the device-pack cop file?
>
> I am thinking I can smell cooking a simple tftp file to check for new 
> loads and download them to the local flash (and setup the necessary 
> tftp-server commands on IOS).  Quick and easy distributed load servers :)
>
> So is there a file (or even AXL if required) where you can get a list 
> of loads?   What happens when a load is not found on the defined load 
> server?  Will it try another tftp server (ie: CUCM)?
>
> -Brandon
>
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Ryan Ratliff <rratliff at cisco.com 
> <mailto:rratliff at cisco.com>> wrote:
>
>     Then you can use the load server setting on the phones to point
>     them to a local tftp server for phone loads.  This way you can put
>     the loads on the router and not have to force phones into SRST to
>     upgrade their loads.
>
>     -Ryan
>
>     On Jun 16, 2010, at 9:52 AM, Nate VanMaren wrote:
>
>     > Because TFTP is way to slow and un-relaible across some wan links.
>     >
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>     > To: Gregory Wenzel
>     > Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net <mailto:cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
>     > Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Manually upload phone loads prior to
>     upgrading
>     >
>     > Why not just add the loads to the CUCM tftp server and let the
>     phones upgrade from there?
>     >
>     > -Ryan
>     >
>     > On Jun 16, 2010, at 6:54 AM, Gregory Wenzel wrote:
>     >
>     >> 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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