[cisco-voip] How Many Docs Does it Take to Prep for an Upgrade?

[Ed Leatherman]

I do this but not nearly as organized :) I have an evernote notebook with a
page where I lay out upgrade procedures and notes, and then as I find docs
relevant to the upgrade I clip them into the notebook so they are there and
synced if I need them

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Anthony Holloway <
avholloway+cisco-voip at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone else do this?  Gather all of the documentation ahead of time,
> because inevitably you're going to revisit a document more than once?
> There are a lot of documents to gather!  Anything I could be doing better?
> Tips?  Tricks?
>
> I create a spreadsheet of all of the pertinent documents I need to review
> or reference, like in this screenshot.  There's over 90 documents in this
> list.  Granted, I don't read them all front to back, but some I do, and
>  for others I need to reference information within them nonetheless.  You
> never know when you might find a small font hidden note in there.
>
> E.g., From the 8945 Release Notes
>
> *"Release 9.4(2)SR1 can only be upgraded from 9.3(4) and later. Releases
> prior to 9.3(4) have to be upgraded to 9.3(4) first."*
>
> *Source: 8945 9.4(2)SR1 Release Notes
> <http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cuipph/8941_8945/firmware/9_4_2SR1/english/release_notes/P415_BK_RB1FD4B7_00_release-notes-942sr1.html#P415_TK_IA5F5D63_00>*
>
> I actually missed this one recently, and unlike 7900 series phones, they
> phone will just brick itself and never register.  Causing you to walk to
> every phone and reset power to it, or walk the mac address tables of your
> layer 2 network and shut/no shut the ports.
>
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