Nortel Meridian 1 Option 11C Installation and operation manual

Option 11C and 11C Mini Upgrade Procedures Guide
Meridian 1
Option 11C and 11C Mini
Upgrade Procedures Guide
Document Number: 553-3021-250
Document Release: Standard 7.00
Date: April 2000
Year Publish FCC TM
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Option 11C and 11C Mini Upgrade Procedures Guide
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Revision histor
y
April 2000 Issue 7.00, Standard.
Updated to include X11 Release 25.0x content.
September 1999 Issue 6.00, Standard.
Updated to include Option 11C Mini Phase II content.
July 1999 Issue 5.00, Standard.
Updated to include Option 11C Mini content.
May 1999 Issue 4.00, Standard.
March 1998 Issue 3.00, Standard.
October 1997 Issue 2.00, Standard.
The Software Installation Program Guide (553-3021-310), Standard 1.0 and
the Upgrade Procedures (553-3021-250), Standard 1.10 were combined to
form this version of the Upgrade Procedures guide.
September 1996 Release 1.00, Standard.

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Option 11C and 11C Mini Upgrade Procedures Guide
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Contents
About this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Related documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Where to start for upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Start here to perform upgrades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Upgrade systems to hold three or more expansion cabinets . . . . . . . . 11
Upgrade selection list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Upgrade an Option 11 or Option 11E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Upgrade an existing Option 11C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Upgrade Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Database Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Upgrade a single-cabinet system to Option 11C . 15
Summary of items required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Upgrade to Option 11C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Summary of steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Expansion cabinets and additional equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Upgrade procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Restore data when an upgrade fails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Upgrade a two-cabinet system with metal cable to
Option 11C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Summary of procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Upgrade without fiber-optic connection to Option 11C . . . . . . . . . 32
Upgrade with fiber-optic connection to Option 11C . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Upgrade to fiber-optic connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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Summary of items required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Upgrade without fiber-optic connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Upgrade with fiber-optic connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Upgrade Option 11C without fiber connection to
fiber-optic connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Summary of steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Upgrade without fiber-optic connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Upgrade with fiber-optic connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Upgrade to fiber-optic connection on an upgraded
Option 11C without fiber connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Expansion cabinets and other additional equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Upgrade procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Upgrade without fiber-optic connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Upgrade with fiber-optic connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Upgrade to fiber-optic connection on an upgraded
Option 11C without fiber connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Restore data because of an upgrade failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Upgrade an Option 11E with fiber-optic
cable to Option 11C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Summary of items required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Upgrade to Option 11C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Summary of steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Expansion cabinets and other additional equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Upgrade procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Restore data because of an upgrade failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Upgrade cabinet hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Summary of items required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
NTDK18AA Cabinet Upgrade Kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Tools needed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Upgrade the cabinet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Upgrade the NTDK20AB SSC to
NTDK20EA or later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
General information you need to know . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
How to identify an upgraded NTDK20 SSC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

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Boot Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
How to handle circuit cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Summary of items required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
NTDK19AA SSC Upgrade Kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Tools needed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Upgrade the SSC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Assign TDS/DTR, XTD, and SDI functions . . . . . . 131
Summary of procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Remove the NTAK03 TDS/DTR card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Remove the NT5K20/48 XTD card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Keep the TDS/DTR card while moving functions to the SSC card . . . 137
Move TDS/DTR and keep SDI ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Keep the TDS/DTR card while configuring additional
units or ports on the SSC card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Option 11/11E upgrade from
Software Daughterboard or PCMCIA . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Summary of steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Upgrade the software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Upgrade Option 11C/11C Mini software to
a new release . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Summary of items required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Upgrade the software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Summary of steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Upgrade procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Revert to the previous release of software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
For an upgrade that was done using a PCMCIA card . . . . . . . . . . . 185
For an upgrade done using a programmed Software Daughterboard
(Option 11C) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Feature set and ISM parameters upgrade . . . . . . . 191
Summary of steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Upgrade the feature set and ISM parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

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Restore a backed up database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Summary of steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Restore the database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Configure 3900 series language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Summary of steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Install the 3900 series language set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Archive and remove databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Summary of steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Use the archive feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Install an archived database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Summary of steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Install the database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Review and clear upgrade information . . . . . . . . 209
Summary of steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Review and clear upgrade information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Use the flash boot ROM utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Summary of steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Use the Flash Boot ROM utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Update the boot code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Installation summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Summary of steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Use the Installation Summary utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

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About this guide
The Option 11C and 11C Mini Upgrade Procedures Guide contains the
following informationrequired toupgrade existingOption11and Option11E
systems to an Option 11C.
• upgrade to Option 11C from an Option 11 or Option 11E
• upgrade to Option 11C compatible with dual port expansion
daughterboards from an existing Option 11C that is not compatible
This guide also contains the following procedures for updating software on
Option 11C and Option 11C Mini systems:
• upgrade Option 11C software to a new release
• perform a same release software upgrade
• revert to a previous database
• restore a backed up database
• archive databases
• install archived databases
• review and clear upgrade information
This guide does not describe how to add equipment (such as additional
cabinets or line cards) to the system. If part of the upgrade is expanding the
system, complete the upgrade first (as described in this guide), then add
equipment.
Related documents
Refer to the Option 11C Planning and Installation Guide (553-3021-210)
when the upgrade includes adding equipment (such as another expansion

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cabinet at a remote site). It also contains site planning information and new
system installation details for Option 11C systems.
Refer to the Option 11C Mini Planning and Installation Guide
(553-3021-209) for site planning information and system installation details
for the Option 11C Mini system.
Where to start for upgrades
“Start here to perform upgrades” on page 11 is your starting point for
upgrades.