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Release Notes for Cisco Hosted Collaboration Mediation, 1.1

Contents

Introduction

HCM Dashboard

HCM Mediation Layer

New Features in HCM 1.1

Known Problems

Resolved Issues

Related Documentation

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request


Release Notes for Cisco Hosted Collaboration Mediation, 1.1


April 15, 2011, OL-24027-01

This document describes the new features, resolved issues and known problems that are applicable to Cisco Hosted Collaboration Mediation (HCM) Release 1.1. These release notes accompany the User Guide for Cisco Hosted Collaboration Mediation 1.1, the Installation Guide for Cisco Hosted Collaboration Mediation 1.1, and the Programmer Guide for Cisco Hosted Collaboration Mediation Interface, 1.1.


Note You can access the Cisco Hosted Collaboration Mediation documents, including this release notes, at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11243/tsd_products_support_series_home.html


Contents

This document contains the following sections:

Introduction

New Features in HCM 1.1

Known Problems

Resolved Issues

Related Documentation

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

Introduction

HCM is intended for use in a Managed Service Provider's (MSP) Network Operations Center (NOC). It comprises the following two components:

HCM Dashboard

HCM Mediation Layer

HCM Dashboard

HCM Dashboard provides a single pane view of assurance data in the hosted environment and displays various summaries and reports. HCM Dashboard acts as a bridge among customer-specific implementations of the following domain managers, in a virtualized environment:

Cisco Unified Operations Manager (CUOM)

VMware vCenter

Cisco Fabric Manager Server (FMS)

Cisco Unified Computing System Manager (UCSM)

HCM Dashboard aggregates data from multiple instances of these domain managers, so that a user logging into HCM Dashboard, can view aggregated customer data in a single window. HCM Dashboard comprises a set of Administration portlets, Dashboard portlets, and a Diagnostics portlet.

The Dashboard portlets enable you to aggregate data from each virtualized instance of CUOM, vCenter, FMS, and UCSM.

The Administration portlets enable you to cross-launch to the web pages of the individual instances of CUOM, vCenter, FMS, and UCSM for customer-centric views.

The Diagnostics portlet enables you to initiate different tests to verify a given phone IP.

The portlets leverage the existing APIs and make API calls to retrieve information from domain managers. HCM Dashboard supports a VMWare-based deployment and can be installed and operated alongside other portal servers or applications.

HCM Mediation Layer

The HCM Mediation layer component uses the TM Forum Shared Information/Data Model (SID) as the foundation data model. HCM Mediation implements the SID as its common model to create and maintain the data interoperability layer in Hosted Communications Services (HCS). It provides SID-based normalized API to the underlying domain managers.

HCM 1.1 Mediation layer supports VOSS connectors.

New Features in HCM 1.1

The following new features are shipped with Cisco Hosted Collaboration Mediation 1.1.

The mediation layer supports Vision OSS (VOSS) Connector in release 1.1. VOSS is a domain manager in the Unified Communications (UC) space. It provides voice, mobility, presence and other services on the Cisco UC infrastructure.

The following other features are part of HCM 1.1:

HCM 1.1 supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server version 5.3 on both the Dashboard Layer and the Mediation Layer.

HCM 1.1 is shipped with installers for both Dashboard Layer and Mediation Layer.

No data from the database is lost during an upgrade from HCM 1.0 to HCM 1.1.

Known Problems

Table 1 describes problems known to exist in this release.


Note To obtain more information about known problems, access the Cisco Software Bug Toolkit at http://tools.cisco.com/Support/BugToolKit/action.do?hdnAction=searchBugs. (You will be prompted to log into Cisco.com).


Table 1 Known Issues 

Bug ID
Summary
Additional Information

CSCti61944

The vCenter alarm details displayed in the Alarm Summary portlet do not match the alarm details displayed in the Events tab in vCenter.

This problem occurs when vCenter NBI collects Gray and Green alarm data. In HCM, the Gray alarm is mapped to Information and the Green alarm is mapped to Cleared.

In vCenter, you cannot view the Gray and Green alarms. You should verify the Gray and Green alarm details in the Events tab in vCenter.

The alarm count in the Events tab does not match the NBI count that appears in the Alarm Summary portlet.

Workaround: None.

CSCti96748

When vCenter HA is enabled, blade alarms are not shown as part of UCSM alarms in HCM.

Enable HA in vCenter. When a blade fails, vCenter moves VM to another blade. HCM monitors the current blade of the VM and does not show blade failure of the old blade.

Workaround:

In vCenter, write the alarm definitions so that when VM is moved due to blade failure, an alarm is generated. This will be shown by HCM.

CSCtj03955

In the Alarm Summary portlet, searching on the Summary field is not allowed.

In the Alarm Summary portlet, if you choose Filter by example and try to sort based on the Summary field, no information is returned.

You should not use the Summary field under the Alarm Summary for searching.

Workaround: None.

CSCtj21695

The event detail link in Operations Manager does not open. An HTTP error occurs.

From HCM portal page, if you perform the following:

1. Select a customer

2. Go to Operations Manager > Fault Monitor. The Fault Monitor page appears.

3. Go the Event section, and select the box for the desired event and click the event detail link.

An HTTP error occurs while trying to access the event's detail page.

Workaround: None.

CSCtj46056

Updating of a user's country is ignored when an invalid country is specified in the SOA request.

When you update a users's country, using UpdateSubscriber in the SOA Tool, if you enter an invalid value in the Country Region, the country reverts back to he previously specified country.

Workaround: None.


Resolved Issues

Table 2 describes the issues that have been resolved in the HCM 1.1 release.

Table 2 Resolved Issues 

Bug ID
Summary
Additional Information

CSCtk08316

Earlier, if you tried to launch vSphere, you encountered an HTTP 503 error. Also, vCenter reported a `SOAP session count limit reached' error.

This issue is now resolved.

CSCtj54887

Sometimes, when you changed the polling interval for CUOM in the Configuration portlet, it did not take effect.

This issue is now resolved.

CSCtj63518

Earlier, the domain manager-specific table closed when you reloaded the page or if you sorted the Customer column, keeping the domain manager-specific table expanded.

This issue is now resolved.


Related Documentation

Table 3 lists the HCM documentation set.

We sometimes update the documentation after original publication. Therefore, you should review the documentation on Cisco.com for any updates. You must access the links in Table 3 for the most-current HCM 1.1 documentation.

Table 3 Related Documentation 

Document Title
Available Formats

User Guide for Cisco Hosted Collaboration Mediation 1.1

On Cisco.com:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11243/products_user_guide_list.html

Installation Guide for Cisco Hosted Collaboration Mediation 1.1

On Cisco.com:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11243/prod_installation_guides_list.html

Release Notes for Cisco Hosted Collaboration Mediation 1.1 (this document)

On Cisco.com:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11243/prod_release_notes_list.html

Programmer Guide for Cisco Hosted Collaboration Mediation Interface 1.1

On Cisco.com:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11243/prod_technical_reference_list.html

Open Source Used In Cisco Hosted Collaboration Mediation 1.1

On Cisco.com:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11243/products_licensing_information_listing.html


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