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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face=Arial size=2>We did a similar upgrade,
and we decided to split the OS upgrades and the Call Manager upgrades into two
seperate maintenance windows. We have a total of 6 servers to upgrade, so
splitting the upgrades was great for us. I'm not sure what you mean by step #11,
restore from backup - the CCM upgrade did not wipe out any of our data, so we
did not have to restore from backup - things were working after the
upgrade.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Something you have to be aware of is the signed
loads of the phones. 3.3.3 and after has signed images - once a phone has a
signed load, it can not go back to an unsigned load. We made sure to upgrade a
few phones in our test centre to signed loads and put them back on our
production network to see that they operated properly. We tested a few
applications on the phone as well as ICD/IPCC express. You should throughly test
any applications you are using.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It's also important to know that Cisco does not
guarentee or support call managers in a cluster running different versions -
they actually strongly recommend against it. We witnessed that phones registered
to call managers with different versions were not able to communicate to each
other - not even ringing through. That's another reason we chose to seperate the
OS and CCM upgrades - to minimize the actual time that phones were not able to
talk to each other. You could further minimize the service interruption by
changing the device pools so all phones use the same call manager subscriber
temporarily.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regarding signed loads, we were surprised to see
that even though the backup call manager of a phone was not yet upgraded, when
we took the primary call manager down for upgrading, the phone communicated to
the publisher and actually upgraded itself with the signed load.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think those were the major points - other than
that - we were quite surprised how easy the upgrade went.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Oh yeah - if you have a CCO contract, you can open
a TAC case in preparation and in advance of your upgrade. We did so under
advisement from our SE and it was great - immediate attention with all your
background already discussed with the engineer.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lelio</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=MHering@TheGaleCompany.com
href="mailto:MHering@TheGaleCompany.com">Hering, Marc</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=cisco-voip@puck.nether.net
href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 01, 2004 10:03
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [cisco-voip] CCM Upgrade 3.2
to 3.3 questions..</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#008000 size=4><SPAN class=115565813-01072004>Hey
everyone,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#008000 size=4><SPAN class=115565813-01072004>I am getting
ready to upgrade my CCM installation from 3.2(3) to 3.3(4). As far as
I can tell, the steps for the Publisher should be as
follows:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#008000 size=4><SPAN
class=115565813-01072004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV><FONT size=+0><SPAN
class=115565813-01072004>
<OL style="MARGIN-TOP: 0in" type=1>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
color=#008000 size=4>Install Backup utility 3.5.53, </FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
color=#008000 size=4>Backup complete config using <SPAN
class=115565813-01072004>backup</SPAN> utility</FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
color=#008000 size=4>Check backup by verifying that the following files
exist</FONT>
<OL style="MARGIN-TOP: 0in" type=a>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in"><FONT
color=#008000 size=4>Dbname.ini</FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in"><FONT
color=#008000 size=4>Backup.ini</FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in"><FONT
color=#008000 size=4>Mcs.sti</FONT></LI></OL>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
color=#008000 size=4>Copy all files generated during backup to another
server and burn to CD</FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
color=#008000 size=4>Install and run upgrade assistant utility to verify
server health</FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
color=#008000 size=4>Resolve any and all issues prior to continuing</FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
color=#008000 size=4>Remove a drive and replace with blank mirror
drive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Wait for mirror to
rebuild.</FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
color=#008000><FONT size=4><SPAN class=115565813-01072004>RE</SPAN>Install
OS using same server recovery method</FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
color=#008000 size=4>Update to OS 2.6</FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
color=#008000 size=4>Install OS 2.6 Sr1 patch</FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
color=#008000><FONT size=4>Install Call manager version 3.3.4 and restore
data from<SPAN class=115565813-01072004> backup</SPAN></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
color=#008000><FONT size=4><SPAN class=115565813-01072004>P</SPAN>erform
clean backup of database</FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
color=#008000 size=4>Proceed to Subscriber upgrade</FONT></LI></OL>
<DIV class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><SPAN
class=115565813-01072004><FONT color=#008000 size=4>Is there anything I have
missed or anything I should watch out for, I have never done this before so
I am understandibly being overcautious.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><SPAN
class=115565813-01072004><FONT color=#008000
size=4></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><SPAN
class=115565813-01072004><FONT color=#008000
size=4>Thanks</FONT></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align=left>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Marc Hering<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Network Engineer<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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