sundance-communications.com Forums Telephony Discussion Phone & VoIP Systems NEC Telephones & Systems Swapping SV8100 primary/secondary netlink locations

We have 2 NEC SV8100s connected with netlink. One of these is the primary and one is the secondary. Each has about 30 digital handsets, and the primary location is the SIP server for about 20 IP phones.

As most of you know, when the network has a hiccup hiccup or we lose power at the primary facility the secondary phone server goes into survival mode and ALL phones reboot at that location. Our network is pretty good, and this problem only happens once every few months, but the problem is we have our secondary server in a 24x7 mission critical facility, while the primary is in a more relaxed facility. So we would like to swap them.

One NEC programmer I talked to said this should be fairly easy, but he wasn't sure how it was done (Other than documenting and starting over). The installer who put the system in (and never mentioned the fact that the secondary location would go completely down everytime the network lost connectivity) said it would take quite a while -- 30 hours of programming.

Has anyone out there had experience with this? Are there copy/paste or command line tools to help with this type of programming? Any estimates on time it takes?

Thanks for any guidance you can give...

All of your licensing is set to the primary CPU.

I don't think you can resolve this with programming.

I think you would have to move your licenses to the other CPU or physically swap cpu's & programming.

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It's been done a couple of times down here and it's usually involved in moving the primary CPU to the new primary location. Not for the faint hearted..