Filter
Top Products
B
AUTOMATED BRANCH OFFICE
INSTALLATION
Overview If your VCX system has several branch offices, you may want to automate
as much as possible the installation process for branch office VCX servers
and the PSTN Gateway connections to the public telephone system that
are located in the branch offices. There are several preparation steps
required, and if you are going to configure only a few branch offices, the
amount of preparation may not be justified. It may be better to configure
the branch office servers manually.
Preparation Steps To automate the branch office installation procedures, you set up these
items:
■ Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) Server — A TFTP server is
usually located in the regional office but wherever it is located, the
DHCP server must know the IP Address. The configuration files for the
branch office equipment reside on the TFTP server, and the locations
of these files are specified as part of the configuration of the DHCP
server.
3Com does not supply a TFTP server as part of the VCX system and
recommends that customers not install TFTP server software on any VCX
server. This appendix does not describe how to install or configure a TFTP
server.
■ Configuration Files — For each branch office there must be one
configuration file for the VCX server and a different file for the PSTN
Gateway. Configuration files contain information that is unique to the
branch office. Each time you upgrade the software in the VCX server
or the PSTN Gateway, you may have to update all of the configuration
files.
The 3Com V6000 system requires two separate configuration files even
though the VCX server and PSTN Gateway equipment reside in a single
chassis. The units operate independently and each downloads its
configuration file from the TFTP server.