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Communication Manager upgrades from System Manager

Upgrade Management in Solution Deployment Manager is a centralized upgrade solution of System Manager, provides an automatic upgrade of Avaya Aura® applications. You can upgrade Communication Manager, Session Manager, and Branch Session Manager directly to Release 7.0 from a single view. Communication Manager includes associated devices, such as Gateways, TN boards, and media modules. The centralized upgrade process minimizes repetitive tasks and reduces the error rate.

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System Manager Release 7.0 and later also support the System Manager Release 6.3.8 flow to upgrade Communication Manager, gateways, media modules, and TN boards to Release 6.3.100. However, the Release 6.3.8 user interface is available only when you select Release 6.3.8 as the target version on the Upgrade Release Selection page.

With Upgrade Management, you can perform the following:

  1. Refresh elements: To get the current state or data such as current version of the Avaya Aura® application. For example, for Communication Manager, gateways, media modules, and TN boards.

  2. Analyze software: To analyze whether the elements and components are on the latest release and to identify whether a new software is available for the inventory that you collected.

  3. Download files: To download files that are required for upgrading applications.

    You can download a new release from Avaya PLDS to the software file library and use the release to upgrade the device software.

  4. Preupgrade check: To ensure that conditions for successful upgrade are met. For example, checks whether:

    • The new release supports the hardware

    • The RAID battery is sufficient

    • The bandwidth is sufficient

    • The files are downloaded

  5. Upgrade applications: To upgrade Avaya Aura® applications to Release 7.0.1.

  6. Install patches: To install the software patches, service packs, and feature pack.

Upgrade automation level

Upgrade job capacity

System Manager Solution Deployment Manager supports simultaneous upgrades or updates of Avaya Aura® applications. Solution Deployment Manager supports the following upgrade capacity:

The capacity also includes applications that are in the paused state. If five upgrade job groups are running or are in a paused state, you cannot upgrade the sixth group.