Installing CallManager
Installing CallManager is the easiest task of any you’ll experience.The installation
CD shipped with the product is an automated script that performs every task
required to create an operational CallManager. Do you remember what was said
about CallManager using Compaq specialized server hardware? The CallManager
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installation CD uses that specialized version of Windows 2000 that has the correct
drivers for the server hardware, SCSI devices, and the Compaq motherboard
support drivers.
The installation CD also contains the scripted installation for CallManager
and the MS SQL Server v7 used for the database services.The server installation
and CallManager installation are one and the same, being that the files are all
extracted from the compressed CD data files. During the installation, the server
will have to be rebooted several times as various parts of the system are installed
and configured via the scripts.
Once the automated installation is completed, the new CallManager server
will reboot one final time and present you with a completed system. CallManager
has not been configured, which is what you’ll begin doing in the next sections.
You’ll first complete the basic configuration for the hardware, then you’ll perform
the more advanced configuration for the users and phones themselves.