Why not just change your DHCP scope for the new fileserver IP and then
reboot the phones?
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Eric Benoit <
iaug-ags@lists.iaug.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Currently I am trying to move my organization away from an old IP_Tel
> installation on a physical server to Avaya's Aura Utiliy Server on a VM. I
> have the Utility Server up and running, configured the way I want. The
> only issue now is I want to give the Utiliy Server the IP address of our
> IP_Tel Server (obviously shutting down the IP_Tel server before doing this)
> that way the phones will connect to the Utilty Server and update the
> firmware without any further configuration (without going into too much
> detail, we are looking at re-IPing all of our Avaya phones and hope to do
> this change pre-emptively so that not every phone is rebooting and updating
> firmware all at once when we do re-IP).
>
> I realize that there is no root access to the Utility Server, so my
> question is is there any possible way to change the IP post installation?
> I've backed up the Utility Server w/ firmware and, worst case, can recreate
> the VM with the proper IP and then restore from the backup, but I'd rather
> not do all that if there is a simple way to just change the IP address
> currently assigned. Thank you!
>
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