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- Release Notes for Cisco Intercompany Media Engine Release 9.0(1)
- Contents
- Introduction
- System Requirements
- Server Support
- Uninterruptible Power Supply
- Upgrading Cisco Intercompany Media Engine
- Before You Begin
- Pre-Upgrade Tasks
- Overview of the Software Upgrade Process
- Making Configuration Changes During an Upgrade
- Administration Changes
- Upgrade Tasks
- Supported Upgrades
- Obtaining the Upgrade File
- Upgrade Paths
- Ordering the Upgrade Media
- Software Upgrade Procedures
- Installing the COP file
- Upgrading from a Local Source
- Upgrading from a Local ISO File Copy
- Upgrading from a Remote Source
- Supported SFTP Servers
- Reverting to a Previous Version
- Service Updates
- Related Documentation
- Limitations and Restrictions
- Important Notes
- Cisco Intercompany Media Engine Limitations and Interactions
- Validation Parameters
- Set the VAP Interface Between the Cisco IME Servers and the Associated Cisco Unified CMs to Encrypted
- NTP Server Configuration
- Customer Information
- Caveats
- Resolved Caveats
- UsingBug Toolkit
- Open Caveats
- Open Caveats for Cisco Intercompany Media Engine Release 9.0(1)
- Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Release Notes for Cisco Intercompany Media Engine Release 9.0(1)
This document contains information pertinent to Cisco Intercompany Media Engine (IME) Release 9.0(1).
- Contents
- Introduction
- System Requirements
- Upgrading Cisco Intercompany Media Engine
- Service Updates
- Related Documentation
- Limitations and Restrictions
- Important Notes
- Caveats
- Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Introduction
The Cisco Intercompany Media Engine server and software function as a key component of the Cisco Intercompany Media Engine feature that provides a technique for establishing direct IP connectivity between enterprises by combining peer-to-peer technologies with the existing public switched telephone network (PSTN) infrastructure.
System Requirements
The following sections comprise the system requirements for this release of Cisco Intercompany Media Engine.
Upgrading Cisco Intercompany Media Engine
The following sections contain information that is pertinent to upgrading to this release of Cisco Intercompany Media Engine.
- Before You Begin
- Pre-Upgrade Tasks
- Supported Upgrades
- Obtaining the Upgrade File
- Upgrade Paths
- Ordering the Upgrade Media
- Software Upgrade Procedures
Before You Begin
Caution
When you upgrade Cisco Intercompany Media Engine the system reboots as part of the upgrade process. Therefore, you may want to perform the upgrade during a scheduled down time for your organization to avoid service interruptions.
If performing an L2 upgrade, choose no for automatic reboot.
Pre-Upgrade Tasks
Before you begin the upgrade, perform the following tasks:
- Ensure that you have the necessary license files for the new release. For more information on obtaining and installing licenses, see the License File Upload chapter in the Cisco Intercompany Media Engine Installation and Configuration Guide.
- Before you begin the upgrade, back up your system. This is particularly important if you are upgrading software on HP7825H3 hardware as there is no option to revert to the previous version.
- If you are upgrading software on HP7825H3 hardware, ensure that you have a 16GB USB device available to migrate your data to the new system.
- Before you upgrade to a later release, refer to the documentation for your currently installed COP files to identify any special considerations related to upgrading Cisco Intercompany Media Engine.
- If upgrading from 8.5(2) or earlier complete the Installing the COP file.
Caution
Any existing data on the USB device that is needed for the HP7825H3 upgrade is lost during migration.
Overview of the Software Upgrade Process
With this version of Cisco Intercompany Media Engine, you cannot install upgrade software on your server while the system continues to operate.
When you install upgrade software, there will be a temporary server outage while the IME software is installed. Once you kick off the upgrade using the command the data will be exported, and the system will be automatically rebooted at which point the server outage will begin. The duration of this outage will depend on your configuration and amount of data. During the upgrade, progress can be monitored via the console until such time that command line interface has been restored. Once restored, you can use the command line interface to continue to monitor upgrade progress.
If an administrator user makes changes during the upgrade process (export of data), that data could be lost after upgrade.
When you initiate the upgrade, you can indicate to activate the partition with the new upgrade software or return to using the partition with the previous version of the software at upgrade completion. With the exception of HP 7825H3 hardware upgrades, the previous software remains in the inactive partition until the next upgrade. Your configuration information migrates automatically to the upgraded version in the active partition.
If for any reason you decide to back out of the upgrade, you can restart the system to the inactive partition that contains the older version of the software. However, any configuration changes that you made since you upgraded the software will get lost.
Note
You can only make changes to the configuration on the active partition. The configuration on the inactive partition does not get updated. If you make changes to the configuration after an upgrade, you must repeat those changes after switching the partition.
You can upgrade from a DVD (local source), a local copy of the ISO image, or from a network location (remote source) that the Cisco Intercompany Media Engine server can access.
Making Configuration Changes During an Upgrade
This section describes the restrictions that apply to the configuration and provisioning changes that you can make during an upgrade.
Administration Changes
The administrator must not make any configuration changes to Cisco Intercompany Media Engine during an upgrade.
Any configuration changes that you make during an upgrade could get lost after the upgrade completes, and some configuration changes can cause the upgrade to fail.
If you are upgrading your system, you must complete the upgrade tasks in this section before you perform any configuration tasks.
Caution
If you fail to follow these recommendations, unexpected behavior may occur; for example, ports may not initialize as expected.
Upgrade Tasks
To successfully complete the upgrade, perform the upgrade tasks in the following order before you begin making configuration changes.
Note
Cisco strongly recommends that you do not perform configuration tasks until the upgrade completes and you have switched the servers over to the upgraded partition.
- Stop all configuration tasks; that is, do not perform configuration tasks in the CLI (with the exception of performing the upgrade).
Tip
For detailed information about the upgrade process, see the Cisco Intercompany Media Engine Installation and Configuration Guide.
- If upgrading from 8.5(1) or earlier complete the Installing the COP file.
- Upgrade the Cisco Intercompany Media Engine.
- When all other upgrade tasks are complete, you can perform any needed configuration tasks as required.
Supported Upgrades
For information about supported upgrades, the Cisco Intercompany Media Engine Compatibility Matrix at the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/compat/ccmcompmatr.html
Obtaining the Upgrade File
Before you begin the upgrade process, you must obtain the appropriate upgrade file from Cisco.com.
You can access the upgrade file during the installation process from either a local DVD or from a remote FTP or SFTP server. Be aware that directory names and filenames that you enter to access the upgrade file are case-sensitive
Upgrade Paths
For information about supported Cisco Intercompany Media Engine upgrades, see the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Software Compatibility Matrix at the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/compat/ccmcompmatr.html
Ordering the Upgrade Media
To upgrade to Cisco Intercompany Media Engine from a release prior to 8.0(1), use the Product Upgrade Tool (PUT) to obtain a media kit and license or purchase the upgrade from Cisco Sales.
To use the PUT, you must enter your Cisco contract number (Smartnet, SASU or ESW) and request the DVD/DVD set. If you do not have a contract for Unified CM, you must purchase the upgrade from Cisco Sales.
For more information about supported Cisco Intercompany Media Engine upgrades, see the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Software Compatibility Matrix at the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/compat/ccmcompmatr.html
See the "Software Upgrades" chapter of the Cisco Intercompany Media Engine Installation and Configuration Guide.
Software Upgrade Procedures
This section provides procedures for upgrading from either a local or a remote source and contains the following topics:
- Installing the COP file
- Upgrading from a Local Source
- Upgrading from a Local ISO File Copy
- Upgrading from a Remote Source
- Supported SFTP Servers
- Reverting to a Previous Version
Installing the COP file
For upgrades from an 8.5(x) or earlier release, this patch (COP file) must be applied prior to initiating the upgrade. Before you upgrade from compatible versions of Cisco Intercompany Media Engine, install the COP file named ciscocm.refresh_upgrade_v1.1.cop.sgn. that you can find under from www.Cisco.com, select . Navigate to .
Upgrading from a Local Source
To upgrade the software from local DVD, follow this procedure:
- If upgrading from 8.5(1) or earlier complete the Installing the COP file.
- If you are upgrading software on HP7825H3 hardware insert the 16GB USB device to facilitate data migration from the old system to the new installation.
- If you do not have a Cisco-provided upgrade disk, create an upgrade disk by burning the upgrade file that you downloaded onto a DVD as an ISO image.
- Just copying the .iso file to the DVD will not work. Most commercial disk burning applications can create ISO image disks. Insert the new DVD into the disc drive on the local server that is to be upgraded.
- Log in to the Cisco Intercompany Media Engine server.
- Enter utils system upgrade initiate and select the appropriate option for the location of the upgrade media.
- To use the Email Notification feature, enter your Email Destination and SMTP Server in the fields provided.
- Continue the upgrade process.
- Choose the upgrade version that you want to install.
- In the next window, monitor the progress of the download.
- If you want to run the upgraded software at the completion of the upgrade process and automatically reboot to the upgraded partition, choose Switch to new version after upgrade. The system restarts and is running the upgraded software.
Upgrading from a Local ISO File Copy
To upgrade the software from local ISO file copy, follow this procedure:
- If upgrading from 8.5(1) or earlier complete the Installing the COP file.
- If you are upgrading software on HP7825H3 hardware insert the 16GB USB device to facilitate data migration from the old system to the new installation.
- Using SFTP place the ISO image on the IME Server. The user id is adminsftp and the password is the configured administration password. After you start the SFTP session, you must change to the upgrade directory and put the ISO image in that location.
- Log in to the Cisco Intercompany Media Engine server.
- Enter utils system upgrade initiate and select option 4 Local Upload Directory.
- To use the Email Notification feature, enter your Email Destination and SMTP Server in the fields provided.
- Continue the upgrade process.
- Choose the upgrade version that you want to install.
- In the next window, monitor the progress of the download.
- If you want to run the upgraded software at the completion of the upgrade process and automatically reboot to the upgraded partition, choose Switch to new version after upgrade. The system restarts and is running the upgraded software.
- The system restarts and is running the upgraded software.
Upgrading from a Remote Source
Supported SFTP Servers
Cisco allows you to use any SFTP server product but recommends SFTP products that have been certified with Cisco through the Cisco Technology Developer Partner program (CTDP). CTDP partners, such as GlobalSCAPE, certify their products with specified versions of Cisco Intercompany Media Engine. For information on which vendors have certified their products with your version of Cisco Intercompany Media Engine, refer to the following URL:
http://www.cisco.com/pcgi-bin/ctdp/Search.pl
For information on using GlobalSCAPE with supported Cisco Intercompany Media Engine versions, refer to the following URL:
http://www.globalscape.com/gsftps/cisco.aspx
Cisco uses the following servers for internal testing. You may use one of the servers, but you must contact the vendor for support:
- Open SSH (refer to http://sshwindows.sourceforge.net/)
- Cygwin (refer to http://www.cygwin.com/)
- Titan (refer to http://www.titanftp.com/)
Cisco does not support using the SFTP product free FTDP. This is because of the 1GB file size limit on this SFTP product.
For issues with third-party products that have not been certified through the CTDP process, contact the third-party vendor for support.
To upgrade the software from a network location or remote server, use the following procedure.
- If upgrading from 8.5(1) or earlier complete the Installing the COP file.
- If you are upgrading software on HP7825H3 hardware insert the 16GB USB device to facilitate data migration from the old system to the new installation.
- Put the upgrade file on an FTP or SFTP server that the server that you are upgrading can access.
- Log in to Cisco Intercompany Media Engine server.
- Enter utils system upgrade initiate.
- From the Source list, choose Remote File system.
- In the Directory field, enter the path to the directory that contains the patch file on the remote system. If the upgrade file is located on a Linux or Unix server, you must enter a forward slash at the beginning of the directory path. For example, if the upgrade file is in the patches directory, you must enter /patches
- In the Server field, enter the server name or IP address.
- In the User Name field, enter your user name on the remote server.
- In the User Password field, enter your password on the remote server.
- Select the transfer protocol from the Transfer Protocol field.
- To use the Email Notification feature, enter your Email Destination and SMTP Server in the fields provided.
- Choose the upgrade version that you want to install.
- In the next window, monitor the progress of the download.
Note
If you lose your connection with the server, you may see the following message when you try to access the Software Upgrades menu again:
Warning: Another session is installing software, click Assume Control to take over the installation.
If Assume Control does not display, you can also monitor the upgrade with the Real Time Monitoring Tool.
- If you want to install the upgrade and automatically reboot to the upgraded partition, choose Switch to new version after upgrade. The system restarts and runs the upgraded software.
Reverting to a Previous Version
After upgrading, you can revert to the software version that was running before the upgrade, by using the Switch Version option to switch the system to the software version on the inactive partition.
This section contains the following topics:
Note
After upgrading IME from 8.5.1.10000-13 to a later version and switching back to 8.5.1, the inactive version displays inaccurately as Inactive Master Version: 0.0.0.0-0 but the active version is displayed correctly.
Note
This document does not apply to Cisco Unified Communications Manager Business Edition.
Service Updates
After you install or upgrade to this release of Cisco Intercompany Media Engine, check to see if Cisco has released critical patches or Service Updates. Service Updates, or SUs, contain fixes that were unavailable at the time of the original release, and often include security fixes, firmware updates, or software fixes that could improve operation.
To check for updates, from www.Cisco.com, select . Navigate to the "Voice and Unified Communications" section and select the appropriate version of Cisco Intercompany Media Engine for your deployment.
For continued notification of updates for your Cisco products, subscribe to the Cisco Notification Service at:
Related Documentation
You can view documentation that supports this release of Cisco Intercompany Media Engine at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps556/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
Important Notes
The following section contains important information that applies to Cisco Intercompany Media Engine.
- Cisco Intercompany Media Engine Limitations and Interactions
- Validation Parameters
- Set the VAP Interface Between the Cisco IME Servers and the Associated Cisco Unified CMs to Encrypted
- NTP Server Configuration
- Customer Information
Cisco Intercompany Media Engine Limitations and Interactions
This section describes the limitations for the Cisco Intercompany Media Engine (Cisco IME) and the interactions with other features.
Limitations
- Cisco IME learned routes do not get generated when a user makes a Mobile Voice Access call from a remote destination to another enterprise.
- When endpoints with Cisco IME-enrolled DIDs are remotely located with VPN connectivity into the enterprise, latency and jitter characteristics for calls with these endpoints will be amplified and could result in the Cisco IME-enabled ASAs triggering more frequent fallbacks to the PSTN. If fallbacks occur too frequently for a specific endpoint, it might be necessary either to configure these devices with a device pool that has a fallback profile with no fallback enabled, to lower the fallback sensitivity levels, or to remove the enrolled DID from Cisco IME.
- When a Cisco IME call gets placed and a loss of Internet connectivity between enterprises occurs, the originating Cisco Unified Communications Manager initiates a call over the PSTN. The initial Invite from the originating Cisco Unified Communications Manager causes the called phone in the terminating enterprise to ring. When the PSTN call reaches the phone in the terminating cluster, a second call occurs on the called phone. If the first call still exists on the phone, the user called party sees two calls on the phone—the actual call and a ghost call.
Validation Parameters
The Cisco IME server relies on validation parameters to establish the security (number of calls required to learn a route) for call validation. By default, the system uses "medium security" values, and these values are designed to provide a sufficient level of security for most Cisco IME deployments. These "medium security" values will require multiple calls to numbers enrolled at a remote Cisco IME server before any routes can be learned to Cisco Unified Communications Manager servers attached to that Cisco IME server. It may take 2 hours or more before a route is learned even if there is a sufficient call volume to numbers enrolled at a remote Cisco IME server. During system installation and configuration, you may wish to see a validation happen quickly. This can be done by lowering the validation parameter settings. It is very important to note: if you set these parameters low for testing, be sure to set them back to their default settings as soon as installation/testing is complete. This will insure good security for normal system operation.
To set the values to minimum security levels, use the ime validator minsecurity CLI command. To reset the values to default security levels, use the ime validator defaultsecurity CLI command.
Set the VAP Interface Between the Cisco IME Servers and the Associated Cisco Unified CMs to Encrypted
Cisco recommends that you set the VAP interface between the Cisco IME servers and the associated Cisco Unified Communications Manager servers to encrypted.
Check to see if the authentication mode for all vapservers is already set to "Encrypted" by executing the show ime vapserver all command from the Cisco IME server CLI.
If they are not set to encrypted, refer to the Cisco Intercompany Media Engine Installation and Configuration Guide for instructions.
When adding a new vapserver using the add ime vapserver CLI command, you get prompted for the parameters, including the encryption mode.
Customer Information
The Cisco IME server stores contact information for your location which allows Cisco IME administration to contact you if the server is not configured properly (if, for example, it rejects connections from other servers).
To display the customer information settings, execute the show ime customerinfo command.
To change or add to the customer information settings, execute the set ime customerinfo command. You will be prompted for contact information.
Caveats
The following sections contain information on how to obtain the latest resolved caveat information and descriptions of open caveats of severity levels 1, 2, and 3.
Caveats describe unexpected behavior on a Cisco Intercompany Media Engine server. Severity 1 caveats represent the most serious caveats, severity 2 caveats represent less serious caveats, and severity 3 caveats represent moderate caveats.
Resolved Caveats
You can find the latest resolved caveat information for Cisco Intercompany Media Engine Release 9.0(1) by using Bug Toolkit, which is an online tool that is available for customers to query defects according to their own needs.
Tip
You need an account with Cisco.com (Cisco Connection Online) to use the Bug Toolkit to find open and resolved caveats of any severity for any release.
To access the Bug Toolkit, log on to http://tools.cisco.com/Support/BugToolKit.
UsingBug Toolkit
The system grades known problems (bugs) according to severity level. These release notes contain descriptions of the following bug levels:
You can search for problems by using the Cisco Software Bug Toolkit.
To access Bug Toolkit, you need the following items:
To use the Software Bug Toolkit, follow these steps:
- Access the Bug Toolkit, http://tools.cisco.com/Support/BugToolKit.
- Log in with your Cisco.com user ID and password.
- If you are looking for information about a specific problem, enter the bug ID number in the "Search for Bug ID" field, and click Go.
Tip
Click Help on the Bug Toolkit page for information about how to search for bugs, create saved searches, create bug groups, and so on.
Open Caveats
Open Caveats for Cisco Intercompany Media Engine Release 9.0(1) describe possible unexpected behaviors in Cisco Intercompany Media Engine Release 9.0(1), which are sorted by component.
Tip
For more information about an individual defect, click the associated Identifier in the Open Caveats for Cisco Intercompany Media Engine Release 9.0(1) to access the online record for that defect, including workarounds.
When you open the online record for a defect, you will see data in the "First Fixed-in Version" field. The information that displays in this field identifies the list of Cisco Intercompany Media Engine interim versions in which the defect was fixed. These interim versions then get integrated into Cisco Intercompany Media Engine releases.
Some more clearly defined versions include identification for Engineering Specials (ES) or Service Releases (SR); for example 03.3(04)ES29 and 04.0(02a)SR1. However, the version information that displays for the Cisco Intercompany Media Engine maintenance releases may not be as clearly identified.
The following example shows how you can decode the maintenance release interim version information. These examples show you the format of the interim version along with the corresponding Cisco Intercompany Media Engine release that includes that interim version. You can use this examples as guidance to better understand the presentation of information in these fields.
Because defect status continually changes, be aware that the Open Caveats for Cisco Intercompany Media Engine Release 9.0(1) reflects a snapshot of the defects that were open at the time this report was compiled. For an updated view of open defects, access Bug Toolkit and follow the instructions as described in the UsingBug Toolkit.
Tip
Bug Toolkit requires that you have an account with Cisco.com (Cisco Connection Online). By using the Bug Toolkit, you can find caveats of any severity for any release. Bug Toolkit may also provide a more current listing than this document provides. To access the Bug Toolkit, log on to http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/launch_bugtool.pl.
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
For information on obtaining documentation, submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see the monthly What's New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html
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