7.0 Upgrading a Virtual Machine to UCX 7.0 and InfinityOne 4.0

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7.0 The Virtual Machine Upgrade Process

7.1 Create a UCX Release 7.0 Virtual Machine

Virtual images are only available through a request to the E-MetroTel Support ticketing system which will temporarily enable an image to be downloaded from a connection with a specific public IP address provided in the support ticket.

1. Begin the process by updating the existing UCX 6.0 or UCX 5.0 software using the Software Update to ensure that the system has the latest available functionality.(It must include FreePBX version 2.11.3-66 or higher.)
2. Open an E-MetroTel support ticket requesting to download a new UCX Release 7.0 virtual machine image, using the Serial Number and VPN IP address of the existing UCX 6.0 or UCX 5.0 instance. In the ticket, you must also provide the public IP address that will be used to download the image.
3. After receiving a response with a download link from E-MetroTel support, download the virtual image using a connection from the public IP address identified to E-MetroTel in Step 1, above.
4. Launch the new instance.
5. Once the image has been installed and the UCX software is running in the virtual environment, register the new instance on our Remote Access network.
6. Perform a Software Update on the new Release 7.0 virtual machine.
7. Update the existing ticket (via the support portal, not by responding to the email) to provide the Remote Access VPN address assigned to the new instance when the system was registered. Do not replace the VPN address of the Release 6.0 system that was included when opening the ticket; instead, include the new address in the ticket text.
8. Wait for a response from the E-MetroTel ticketing system indicating that E-MetroTel has captured the MAC address and Host ID of the new Release 7.0 instance and associated it with the existing UCX 6.0 or UCX 5.0 system's Serial Number.

After you have received the notification from the ticketing system you are ready for the next step.

 7.2 Prepare the New Instance

Before transferring any data to the new instance, the UCX Release 7 system must be updated and licensed.

1. Visit the System Activation page on the new instance to retrieve the system licensing data from the SN management tool. Just by visiting the page, the new instance will become associated with the Serial Number.
2. Perform a Licence Retrieval on the Enter License page to get the updated Release 7 license.

7.3 Prepare the existing UCX Release 6.0 system

1. Create a Backup of the existing UCX Release 6.0 or UCX 5.0 instance and download the backup to your PC.

7.4 Prepare the existing InfinityOne Release 3.0 system (if used)

If you are running InfinityOne on the UCX Release 6.0 system it must be backed up separately from the UCX backup.

1. Follow the steps in section 3.0 Preparing to Update to InfinityOne 4.0 to ensure that all InfinityOne data backup is ready for use in InfinityOne Release 4.0 on the new UCX Release 7.0 instance.

7.5 Restore the system data to the new UCX 7.0 instance

1. Perform a Software Update on the new UCX 7.0 system
2. If you would like to have a "clean" backup of the UCX Release 7.0 system, perform a Backup now.
3. Install any of the optional Addon packages that were configured in the UCX Release 6.0 or UCX 5.0 system
4. Upload the UCX Release 6.0 backup to the new UCX Release 7.0 system using the Upload button on the System Tools / Backup/Restore page.
5. Restore the backup by clicking the assocaited Restore button.

7.6 Activate any Specific Settings

E-MetroTel recommends that you review the basic configuration settings of the system after the UCX 7.0 Update has been completed. In addition, several of the automated tasks and configuration settings will need to be restarted.

7.5.2 Automated Cleanup

If the system was previously configured for any scheduled Automated Cleanup activity, the existing configuration, including any schedules, will be configured as per the original Release 6.0 or UCX 5.0 settings, however, they will be Disabled on startup. To restart the schedules, the Automated Cleanup service must be restarted following the instructions in the Automated Cleanup documentation.

7.5.3 Automatic Software Updates

E-MetroTel always recommends configuring Automatic Software Updates. These will be required to be set up for the new UCX Release 7.0 instance.

7.5.4 Install DTLS Certificate

If you are using InfinityOne you will need to create a new DTLS certificate to enable speech path between devices.

1. Navigate to Security / Certificates / DTLS Certificates
   

7.7 Switch SIP Trunks and users from the UCX Release 6.0 or UCX 5.0 system to the new UCX Release 7.0 instance.