Installing IP Telephony, Messaging and Conferencing

The IP Telephony installation process is mostly automated. The only interactions are to start the installation, confirm the End User License Agreement and to confirm yes to accept to continue a few times, including a reboot as the final part of the installation.

Perform the following steps to install the IP Telephony and Messaging code:

1. From the IP Telephony partition console, type install and press Enter to start the installation process; see Figure 6-12.

Figure 6-12 Starting the installation

2. Type yes to start the installation, as shown in Figure 6-13.

Figure 6-13 Confirming the installation

3. Press Enter to view the 3Com End User License Agreement; see Figure 6-14.

Figure 6-14 Viewing the End User License Agreement

4. Read and understand the agreement, press the space bar to continue to the next page, and do this until you reach the end of the text. When the text /opt/3com/EULA.txt lines 166-188/188 (END) appears on the screen, press Enter or the space bar to exit the agreement.

Note: The installation shown in this section was captured during the installation of IP Telephony and IP Messaging. However, the steps shown can also be used to cover installation of IP Conferencing. There are a few differences, which are marked.

Welcome to the 3Com VCX for System i Installation Disc! The installation process will irreversably reconfigure the disk storage for this LPAR.

Enter 'yes' to install, or anything else to exit: yes

In order to install the VCX software, you must view the 3Com End User License Agreement and agree to its terms. Press Enter to display the EULA.

5. Accept the agreement, shown in Figure 6-15, by typing yes and pressing Enter.

Figure 6-15 Accepting the End User License Agreement

6. If you type yes, the installation continues. Typing anything else will terminate the

installation and you will get the Livecd root # prompt again. At the prompt can you restart installation again by typing install.

7. As shown in Figure 6-16, you see the disk storage is being prepared.

Figure 6-16 Disk storage being prepared

IMPORTANT: READ BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD, INSTALL, OR USE THIS SOFTWARE 3COM END-USER SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS BEFORE DOWNLOADING, INSTALLING, AND/OR USING THIS SOFTWARE, THE USE OF WHICH IS ...

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By Entering 'yes' below, you acknowledge having read and agreed to the terms of the 3Com End User License Agreement.

If you do not agree with these terms, Enter anything else to terminate the installation.

8. At this point, there is a difference between installing IP Telephony and IP Messaging and installing IP Conferencing.

Figure 6-17 shows installing IP Telephony and IP Messaging; the screen scrolls by without any interaction.

Figure 6-17 Automatic confirmation when installing IP Telephony and Messaging

Figure 6-18 shows that when installing IP Conferencing, you need to confirm your selection by typing yes and pressing Enter.

Figure 6-18 Manual confirmation when installing IP Conferencing

Confirm Selection ---You have chosen to install:

Version 7_2_5_5 / All configuration types (selectable) (all)

--- Confirm Selection --- You have chosen to install:

Version 7.2.49 / All configuration types (selectable) (all)

*** WARNING *** Once you confirm this selection, you cannot change it.

Are you absolutely certain that you wish to configure this system as listed above? If you answer 'no' here the utility will exit without making any changes.

Confirm your selection and configure the disk? [no]: yes

9. The installation starts, as shown in Figure 6-19.

Figure 6-19 Installation starting

10.The OEM selection (Figure 6-20) only shows when installing IP Conferencing; type option 1 (3Com OEM Package) and press Enter.

Figure 6-20 Selecting the OEM package when installing IP Conferencing

Software Installation ---Software installation will now be performed. This process may take a number of minutes, during which there may be long pauses with no output.

*** DO NOT INTERRUPT OR POWER OFF SYSTEM WHILE INSTALLATION IS IN PROGRESS ***

Installing RPM /opt/3com/release-files/7_2_5_5/pre/vcx-users-2.0.1-1.noarch.rpm

If you are building a master disk for customer use, be especially careful that the correct OEM package is selected. Available options:

11.When the installation completes, type yes and press Enter to perform a reboot; see Figure 6-21.

Figure 6-21 Installation complete

12.The partition reboots to complete the IP Telephony installation; see Figure 6-22.

Figure 6-22 Rebooting the IP Telephony partition

Installation Completed Successfully --- VCX version 7_2_5_5 is now available ---Version installation succeeded.

System configuration was successful.

Installation is complete.

Next you must reboot.

Enter 'yes' to reboot, anything else to exit: yes

INIT: Switching to runlevel: 6

INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal INIT: Sending processes the KILL signal

* Stopping local ... [ok]

* Stopping syslog-ng ... [ok]

* Stopping lo

* Shutting down lo ... [ok]

* Stopping pwgen ... [ok]

* Unmounting filesystems ... [ok]

* Shutting down the Logical Volume Manager Locking type 1 initialisation failed.

Locking type 1 initialisation failed.

* Finished Shutting down the Logical Volume Manager

* Shutting down RAID devices (mdadm) ... [ok]

* Remounting remaining filesystems readonly ... [ok]

13.During reboot, it starts Kudzu (the hardware detection and configuration tool). Press any key to continue; see Figure 6-23.

Figure 6-23 Kudzu hardware detection and configuration tool

Hardware Discovery Utility 1.1.95.15 (C) 2003 Red Hat, Inc.

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14.If Kudzu detects hardware (new or first time usage), it will display the Hardware Added window shown in Figure 6-24. To configure resources such as Ethernet cards (physical or virtual), press F2 (Configure) to configure the detected hardware.

Figure 6-24 Hardware Discovery Utility

Note: This will only occur the first time you boot the IP Telephony partition, or if you change the hardware configuration; for example, if you replace a Network Interface Card (NIC). Replacing a NIC will affect the VCX machine-id, which is the basis for the license keys. This means that if you replace a network card, you must also get a new license key for your IP Telephony environment to function.

For virtual I/O, if you use virtual Ethernet and change the VLAN ID or slot numbers, you then need to get a new license key as well; see 2.10, “IP Telephony licenses” on page 48.

<F2> Configure / Unconfigure All | <F3> Ignore / Keep All | <F4> Cancel

15.Installation completes (Figure 6-25). At this point you should be working with 3Com or an accredited 3Com Business Partner for the VCX configuration.

Figure 6-25 VCX installation completed

VCX configuration and license keys are now needed to get phones, gateways, and connection to PSTN to function.

If you are using HMC and virtual I/O, continue with 6.4, “Changing the Network Server Description after install” on page 173.

If you are using VPM and virtual I/O, continue with 6.5, “Configuring the VCX network to test network functions” on page 176.

If you are using HMC and direct I/O, continue with 6.5, “Configuring the VCX network to test network functions” on page 176.