Administrator's Guide

Administering Media Servers
555-233-506556 Issue 5 October 2002
Accessing the Media Server Web Interface
(For S8300 and S8700 Media Servers) The Web Interface can be accessed through
the corporate LAN connection to the G700 Media Gateway, or through the
Services Ethernet interface on the front of the S8300 and S8700 Media Server
connected to a laptop PC using a crossover cable. Details on how to configure a
laptop for a direct connection are in the online help and in Welcome to the Avaya
S8300 Media Server and Avaya G700 Media Gateway.
(For S8300 and S8700 Media Servers) To access the media server, you must log in
as follows:
1. Open a compatible Internet browser on your computer. Currently only
Internet Explorer 5.x (Avaya recommends 5.5 with Service Pack 2) and
Netscape 4.7x are supported.
2. In the Address (or Location) field of your browser, type the IP address or
name of the Avaya media server and press Enter.
■ LAN access by IP address. If you are logging into the administrative
interface over the corporate local area network, you can type the
media server’s unique IP address in standard dotted-decimal
notation, such as http://192.152.254.201.
■ LAN access by server name. If the server has already been
configured and if the corporate LAN includes a domain name
service (DNS) server that has been administered with the servers’
names, you can type the server’s name into the address field instead
of the IP address. Server names vary depending on local
administration (such as http://media-server1.mycompany.com).
■ Laptop access by IP address. If you are logging in to the services
Ethernet interface from a directly connected laptop, the IP address
on the server is always
192.11.13.6. The subnet mask is always
255.255.255.252. New servers that have not yet been configured
can only be accessed in this way. Server-name login is not available
through the services interface because this connection is a closed
(private) network with no DNS.
NOTE:
The S8300 Media Server’s name and IP address are specified during
initial media server configuration.