Installation guide

Release Notes for Cisco Voice Interworking Service Module Release 3.0(0)

Part Number OL-2523-01 Rev. B0, January 9, 2004

Installation and Upgrade Procedures

VISM to VISM-PR Upgrade Procedure

Software Release 3.0(0) for VISM/VISM-PR introduces the new VISM-PR card. Complete the

following steps to gracefully upgrade from VISM cards to VISM-PR cards. You must ensure that the

VISM and VISM-PR software versions are the same—ensure that you have the version with Commission

on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA), if you use the CALEA feature.

The following versions of VISM software Release 3.0(0) are available:

• 003.000.000—without CALEA

• 003.050.000—with CALEA

Note You do not have to complete these instructions in order to use software Release 3.0(0) for

VISM/VISM-PR; however, see the “VISM Features” section on page 2 for a list of features that are

not available to you if you do not perform this upgrade procedure.

VISM cards and VISM-PR cards use the same back cards. There are no new back cards introduced with

this release. In the following procedure:

• Remove your VISM cards and replace them with VISM-PR cards.

• Two VISM-PR cards are involved, one initially active and one initially standby. In this procedure

description, the initially standby VISM-PR card is identified as VISM-PR-1 and the initially active

VISM-PR as VISM-PR-2.

• Old-rev refers to the firmware before the upgrade (2.2).

• New-rev refers to the firmware after the upgrade (3.0).

Step 1 Log in to the active PXM card (slot 7 or 8).

Note In these steps, PXM card refers to the type of PXM card you have. It can be a PXM1,

PXM1E, or PXM45 card.

Step 2 Save the existing configuration as a contingency plan by entering:

savesmcnf <SM slot#>

This saves the existing configuration in the c:cnf directory. This file can be used during the downgrade

procedure, if necessary.

Step 3 Execute the PXM install command:

install sm <SM slot#> <new-rev>

where:

SM slot# is the slot number of the standby VISM-PR-1 card and new-rev is the file name of the new

firmware (for example, vism_8t1e1_003.000.000.000.fw).

This command causes the standby VISM-PR-1 card to reset and come up in the “standby” state, running

the new-rev firmware. The active VISM-PR-2 card is unaffected by this command. At this point, the

primary firmware is still the old-rev and the secondary firmware is new-rev.