Upgrades to new software

It’s very loud and cold today…

I am out at our datacenter for the church upgrading our Call Managers from 4.2 to 6.1. It has been a long day of waiting and so far I am not even done with the first one. I have been planning for this day since December of last year so I am excited to see this finally get completed.

Everyone is out of the office this week so it is a convenient time for to take down the phone system and do what I need to do. So far though, the phone system hasn’t been down yet as it fails over to the other server when one is down. We will see what happens when this is complete and it’s time to move onto the next one.

More as it happens…

8:15pm Well, the first server is done and the phones are up, which is good. I was a little woried the phone were not going to like the new firmware but that seems ok. Now on to the second server. It is past the point of installing and try to talk with the first node and it is taking it’s sweet time. You’d think with a gigabit backbone that it would have no problem transfering data. Oh well…

Tags: Call Manager, Cisco, Cisco Cisco