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Cisco Unified IP Phone 7960G and 7940G Release Notes for Firmware Release 8.0(3) for Cisco Unified CallManager 5.0, 4.2, 4.1, 3.3

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Cisco Unified IP Phone 7960G and 7940G
Release Notes for Firmware Release 8.0(3) for Cisco Unified CallManager 5.0, 4.2, 4.1, 4.0,
and 3.3 (SCCP)

Contents

Related Documentation

New and Changed Information

Hold Reversion Feature

Optimizing SCCP Messages

Installation Notes

Important Notes

Configurable SRST Router Fallback Waiting Period

Using Barge on an Encrypted Call

Secure PC Log Off in an 802.1X Network

Caveats

Using Bug Toolkit

Open Caveats

Closed Caveats

Obtaining Documentation

Cisco.com

Product Documentation DVD

Ordering Documentation

Documentation Feedback

Cisco Product Security Overview

Reporting Security Problems in Cisco Products

Obtaining Technical Assistance

Cisco Technical Support & Documentation Website

Submitting a Service Request

Definitions of Service Request Severity

Obtaining Additional Publications and Information


Cisco Unified IP Phone 7960G and 7940G
Release Notes for Firmware Release 8.0(3) for Cisco Unified CallManager 5.0, 4.2, 4.1, 4.0,
and 3.3 (SCCP)


June 1, 2006

Use these release notes with the 8.0(3) firmware release (P00308000300) for the Cisco Unified IP Phone 7960G and 7940G that run on Cisco Unified CallManager Versions 5.0, 4.2, 4.1, 4.0, and 3.3 (SCCP).

You might need to notify your Cisco Unified IP Phone users about some of the information provided in this document.

Contents

These release notes provide the following information:

Related Documentation

New and Changed Information

Installation Notes

Important Notes

Caveats

Obtaining Documentation

Documentation Feedback

Cisco Product Security Overview

Obtaining Technical Assistance

Obtaining Additional Publications and Information

Related Documentation

Cisco Unified IP Phone Documentation

Refer to publications that are specific to your language, phone model and Cisco Unified CallManager release. Navigate from the following documentation URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/voice/c_ipphon/index.htm

Cisco Unified CallManager Documentation

Refer to the Cisco Unified CallManager Documentation Guide and other publications specific to your Cisco Unified CallManager version. Navigate from the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/voice/c_callmg/index.htm

New and Changed Information

Cisco Unified IP Phone firmware release 8.0(3) supports several releases of Cisco Unified CallManager including the latest releases— 4.2 and 5.0. For a complete list of new and changed phone features introduced in these Cisco Unified CallManager releases, refer to the Release Notes for Cisco Unified CallManager 4.2 and the Release Notes for Cisco Unified CallManager 5.0. See "Related Documentation" section for help locating these documents.

The topics below contain new and changed information about features that are introduced in Cisco Unified IP Phone firmware release 8.0(3) for SCCP phones, but that are not documented in the latest release of the Cisco Unified IP Phone SCCP Administration Guide or Phone Guide for your phone model.

This section contains these topics:

Hold Reversion Feature

Optimizing SCCP Messages

Hold Reversion Feature


Note The Hold Reversion feature requires Cisco Unified CallManager release 4.2(1) SR1.


Firmware release 8.0(3) supports the Hold Reversion feature, which limits the amount of time that a call can be put on hold before reverting back to the phone that put the call on hold and alerting the user.

A reverting call can be distinguished from a new incoming call by the ring cadence, among other indicators. Reverting calls ring once, using the ring tone already set for that phone line. (If the line is configured to use another new call indicator, such as a beep, the reverting call will be indicted according to the same setting.) If the reverting call continues to hold, the single ring repeats at intervals, as determined by the Hold Reversion Notification Interval setting (described below).

In addition, reverting calls are indicated by:

The animated Hold Reversion icon— Displays in the call bubble of the held call.

The "Hold Reversion" status line message—Appears for several seconds following each alert.

Reverting calls are also indicated by a Hold Reversion icon that displays next to the relevant phone number on the phone screen.

Administration Configuration Tips

Cisco Unified CallManager Administration provides these clusterwide system parameters:

Hold Reversion Duration (0-1200 seconds)—Enables/disables Hold Reversion and determines how long a call can be placed on hold before reverting. The default value is 0. You must enter a value greater than 0 to enable Hold Reversion. You can also set this parameter for a specific directory number on the Directory Number Configuration window, which takes precedence over the system parameter.

Hold Reversion Notification Interval (0-1200 seconds)—Enables/disables subsequent periodic alerts for a reverting call and determines the interval between alerts. The default setting is 30 seconds. (In this case, subsequent notification would occur every 30 seconds after the initial alert until the phone user resumes the call.) You must enter a value greater than 0 to enable subsequent periodic alerts.

With Cisco Unified CallManager release 4.2(1) SR1, the phone screen focus is configured to always display a new incoming call, even when a reverting call is present. On the phone, you can view the call focus setting by choosing Settings > Network Configuration> Reverting Focus Priority. In this release, the value is "Lower," indicating that the reverting call focus is a lower priority than the incoming call focus.

User Tips

When you put a call on hold, you have a limited time to resume the call before the Hold Reversion feature reverts the held call back to your phone and alerts you. The time limit is determined by your system administrator.

Your phone alerts you about a reverted held call by producing a single ring (or beep or other indicator, depending on how your phone normally indicates new calls on this line.) Your phone also displays a Hold Reversion icon next to the relevant phone number on the phone screen. If you do not answer the held call, the alerting ring can repeat at intervals determined by your system administrator.

To resume the call, make sure the reverting call is highlighted, then pick up the handset, or press any of the following: the Resume softkey, the speaker button (if unlit), the headset button (if unlit).

To resume the call on a different line, press the appropriate line button. If several reverting calls are holding on that line, your phone resumes the oldest reverting call.

If you use a shared line, Hold Reversion rings only on the phone that put the call on hold, not on the other phones that share the line.

Optimizing SCCP Messages

Firmware 8.0(3) supports improved SCCP messaging to optimize bandwidth for customers who deploy large numbers of phones that share the same line. In SCCP Version 9, SCCP message structures are altered to allow variable length messages instead of a fixed length character-array that consumes bandwidth.

Installation Notes

Before using the Cisco Unified IP Phone 7960G and 7940G with Cisco Unified CallManager release 3.3 or later, you must install the latest firmware on all Cisco Unified CallManager servers in the cluster. The firmware image name is P00308000300 for these releases of Cisco Unified CallManager:

For Cisco Unified CallManager release 4.2 and earlier

For Cisco Unified CallManager release 5.0 and later

If you are using the Cisco Unified IP Phone Expansion Module 7914, you must upgrade the expansion module to firmware release S00105000200 before you use the phones. You can download the installation program, which is named cmterm-7914-sccp.5-0-2.exe, and the readme file from Cisco.com at this location:

http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/ip-7900ser

To download and install the firmware, follow these steps:

Procedure


Step 1 Go to the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/ip-7900ser

Step 2 Click one of the following hyperlinks, and follow the prompts to download the firmware:

For Cisco Unified CallManager release 4.2 and earlier: cmterm-7940-7960-sccp.8-0-3.exe

For Cisco Unified CallManager release 5.0 and later: cmterm-7940-7960-sccp.8-0-3.cop

Step 3 Go back to the URL shown in Step 1, click the following hyperlink and follow the prompts to download the Readme file, which contains installation instructions for the corresponding firmware:

For Cisco Unified CallManager release 4.2 and earlier and Cisco Unified CallManager release 5.0 cmterm-7940-7960-sccp-8-0-3.Readme.htm

Step 4 Follow the instructions in the Readme file to install the firmware.


Important Notes

This section includes information about using Cisco Unified IP Phones with Cisco Unified CallManager and includes these topics:

Configurable SRST Router Fallback Waiting Period

Using Barge on an Encrypted Call

Secure PC Log Off in an 802.1X Network

Configurable SRST Router Fallback Waiting Period

When a Cisco Unified IP Phone loses its connection to the Cisco CallManager server, the connection fails over to an SRST router. After a failover to an SRST router, the phone will monitor the links to the Cisco Unified CallManager servers that the phone can register to. When a server has been available for two minutes, by default, the phone will fall back from the router to that server.

You can change this default time by specifying another value for the station connection monitor duration parameter in Cisco Unified CallManager Administration. For more information, refer to Cisco Unified CallManager Administration Guide.

Using Barge on an Encrypted Call

Cisco Unified IP Phone 7960G and 7940G users cannot barge into an encrypted call if the phone that is used to barge is not configured for encryption. When barge fails in this case, a fast busy tone plays on the phone where the user initiated the barge. No error message displays on the initiator phone to indicate that barge failed because the call is encrypted.

If the initiator phone is configured for encryption, the barge initiator can barge into an authenticated or nonsecure call from the encrypted phone. After the barge occurs, Cisco Unified CallManager classifies the call as nonsecure.

If the initiator phone is configured for encryption, the barge initiator can barge into an encrypted call, and the phone indicates that the call is encrypted.

A user can barge into an authenticated call, even if the phone that is used to barge is nonsecure. The authentication icon continues to display on the authenticated devices in the call, even if the initiator phone does not support security.

Secure PC Log Off in an 802.1X Network

The Cisco Unified IP Phone 7960G and 7940G can monitor IEEE 802.1X messages between an authenticating switch and a connected PC (supplicant). When a PC is disconnected from the Cisco Unified IP Phone, the phone issues an EAPOL-Logoff message on behalf of the PC to the authenticating switch. The proxy EAPOL-Logoff message causes the authenticating switch to set the port to an unauthenticated state.

If you have an 802.1X network and upgrade to Cisco Unified IP Phone firmware release 7.2(2) or greater, be aware that you must re-authenticate a PC that is connected to a Cisco Unified IP Phone after the upgrade.

For more information about 802.1X re-authentication, refer to the Cisco Catalyst switch configuration guides at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/tsd_products_support_
category_home.html

Caveats

This section contains these topics:

Using Bug Toolkit

Open Caveats

Closed Caveats

Using Bug Toolkit

Known problems (bugs) are graded according to severity level. These release notes contain descriptions of:

All severity level 1 or 2 bugs.

Significant severity level 3 bugs.

You can search for problems by using the Cisco Software Bug Toolkit.

To access Bug Toolkit, you need the following items:

Internet connection

Web browser

Cisco.com user ID and password

To use the Software Bug Toolkit, follow these steps:

Procedure


Step 1 To access the Bug Toolkit, go to http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/launch_bugtool.pl.

Step 2 Log on with your Cisco.com user ID and password.

Step 3 Click the Launch Bug Toolkit hyperlink.

Step 4 To look for information about a specific problem, enter the bug ID number in the "Enter known bug ID" field and click Search.


Open Caveats

Table 1 describes the problems that are known to exist in the 8.0(3) firmware release for the Cisco Unified IP Phone 7960G and 7940G (shortened to Cisco Unified IP Phone in the problem summary).

Table 1 Open Caveats for Cisco Unified IP Phone 7960G and 7940G for Firmware Release 8.0(3) 

Bug ID
Summary and Bug Toolkit Link

CSCsb66509

When using FAC to cancel the CFwdALL setting while the phone is off hook, the user hears a tone until hanging up the handset.

http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/onebug.pl?bugid=CSCsb66509

CSCsc81912

When requesting the ringlist file, the user presses Cancel, and the phone displays incorrect Ring Type entries.

http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/onebug.pl?bugid=CSCsc81912

CSCsc82124

The Cisco Unified IP Phone tries to fall back to a Cisco Unified CallManager that is not running Cisco CallManager service, but has port 2000 open.

http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/onebug.pl?bugid=CSCsc82124

CSCsd01460

On a Cisco Unified IP Phone with a disabled speakerphone and headset, the phone softkeys should be grayed out.

http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/onebug.pl?bugid=CSCsd01460

CSCsd53018

When the data VLAN is the same as the voice VLAN, the phone sends the tagged packets on the PC port.

http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/onebug.pl?bugid=CSCsd53018

CSCsd58570

The Cisco Unified IP Phone produces garbled audio and repeated words for the Personal Assistant Help conversation.

http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/onebug.pl?bugid=CSCsd58570

CSCsd80952

When a call is put on hold, the directory number does not display after pressing the line button.

http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/onebug.pl?bugid=CSCsd80952

CSCsd83498

The Cisco Unified IP Phone stops sending CDP packets and causes a dot1x error that disables the switch port.

http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/onebug.pl?bugid=CSCsd834982

CSCsd94166

The Init:Call History URI command does not reset the status line on the Cisco Unified IP Phone screen.

http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/onebug.pl?bugid=CSCsd94166

CSCsd98269

After upgrading the phone firmware, Speed Dials are missing from the Cisco Unified IP Phone.

http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/onebug.pl?bugid=CSCsd98269

CSCse01092

When a 30-digit text label displays for a long period of time, the third digit changes and does not display correctly.

http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/onebug.pl?bugid=CSCse01092

CSCse29339

When the Cisco Unified IP Phone places a call to a busy phone, it cannot activate CallBack.

http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/Support/Bugtool/onebug.pl?bugid=CSCse29339


Closed Caveats

Table 2 describes the problems that are resolved in the 8.0(3) firmware release for the Cisco Unified IP Phone 7960G and 7940G (shortened to Cisco Unified IP Phone in the problem summary).

Table 2 Closed Caveats for Cisco Unified IP Phone 7960G and 7940G for Firmware Release 8.0(3) 

Bug ID
Summary and Bug Toolkit Link

CSCse26309

The Placed Calls list is updated only when a call connects instead of updating for all dialed calls.

CSCse31121

When the shared line on a Cisco Unified IP Phone is busy, you cannot reset the phone.


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