Cisco Unified IP Phone 7900 Series

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Cisco Unified IP Phone 7970G and 7971G-GE Release Notes for Firmware Release 8.2(2)SR1 (SCCP and SIP)

Contents

Related Documentation

New and Changed Information

Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) Enable/Disable

Version Stamp Mismatch Recovery (SIP only)

Installation Notes

Installing Firmware Release 8.2(2)SR1 for SCCP

Firmware Upgrade Issues for SCCP

Cisco Unified IP Phone Expansion Module 7914

Firmware Installation Procedure for SCCP

Installing Firmware Release 8.2(2)SR1 for SIP

Firmware Upgrade Issues for SIP

Firmware Installation Procedure for SIP

Caveats

Using Bug Toolkit

Open Caveats

Resolved Caveats

Resolved SCCP Caveats

Resolved SIP Caveats

Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines

Cisco Unified IP Phone 7970G and 7971G-GE Release Notes for Firmware Release 8.2(2)SR1 (SCCP and SIP)

Use these release notes with a Cisco Unified IP Phone 7970G and 7971G-GE running SCCP or SIP firmware release 8.2(2)SR1.

The SCCP version of firmware release 8.2(2)SR1 is compatible with Cisco Unified CallManager releases 5.1, 5.0, 4.2, 4.1, 4.0, and 3.3.

The SIP version of firmware release 8.2(2)SR1 is compatible with Cisco Unified CallManager release 5.1 and 5.0.

Note SIP firmware release 8.2(2)SR1 is designed and tested to interoperate with Cisco call control, most notably Cisco Unified CallManager release 5.1. Although SIP firmware is IETF RFC 3261 compliant, it is not supported by Cisco TAC or Engineering for use with non-Cisco call control systems.

Contents

These release notes provide the following information. You might need to notify your users about some of the information provided in this document.

•Related Documentation

•New and Changed Information

•Installation Notes

•Caveats

•Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines

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/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/tsd_products_support_category_home.html

Cisco Unified CallManager Documentation

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

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/voicesw/ps556/tsd_products_support_series_home.html

Note The Cisco Unified CallManager New and Changed Information Guide, Release 5.1(1) describes new and changed 5.1(1) software features and acts as a supplement to the Cisco Unified CallManager Release 5.0(4) document set. Content in the New and Changed guide supersedes information contained in the 5.0(4) document set; however, chapters in the New and Changed guide may contain references to 5.0(4) documents. In such cases, refer to the 5.0(4) documents for more information.

New and Changed Information

This section contains new and changed information about features introduced in firmware release 8.2(2)SR1. This information is not documented in the latest release of the Cisco Unified IP Phone 7970 Series Administration Guide for Cisco Unified CallManager, Release 5.1

Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) Enable/Disable

Firmware release 8.2(2)SR1 supports enabling or disabling the Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP), which performs device discovery and sends configuration information from the switch to the phone.

Note CDP should be enabled on the switch port when the phone is connected to a Cisco switch. CDP is important for phone VLAN assignment, power negotiation, QoS management, and 802.1x security.

The CDP enable/disable feature supports response to Denial of Service (DOS) activity that affects Cisco phones when the phones are connected to non-Cisco switches. A non-Cisco switch might not filter the CDP messages, and, if CDP is enabled on the PC or switch port, messages might be multicast to all the phones on the switch. However, when CDP is disabled, the phone does not generate CDP messages and ignores any received CDP messages.

If CDP is disabled on the switch port, the phone cannot obtain VLAN information from an upstream switch port; however, the VLANs can be set manually by configuring the Admin VLAN on the phone.

To configure CDP enable/disable, use these fields on the Phone configuration page in Cisco Unified Communications Manager:

•Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP): PC Port—Indicates whether CDP is enabled on the PC port (default is enabled). CDP must be enabled on the PC port when Cisco VT Advantage/Unified Video Advantage (CVTA) is connected to the PC port. CVTA does not work without CDP interaction with the phone.

Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP): Switch Port—Indicates whether CDP is enabled on the switch port (default is enabled).

Note The current CDP values are visible on the Settings menu.

Version Stamp Mismatch Recovery (SIP only)

If a Cisco Unified IP Phone (SIP) configuration is not synchronized with the Cisco Unified CallManager configuration, the IP Phone may restart several times before it successfully registers.

Firmware release 8.2(2)SR1 provides the following methods to detect a configuration mismatch:

•Reason_code 14 is added to the DeviceUnregistered alarm to indicate a version mismatch.

•New perfmon counters in RTMT indicate how many version mismatches were detected:

–Cisco SIP Station-> ConfigMismatchesTemporary: number of devices that experienced a configuration mismatch that was automatically recovered

–Cisco SIP Station -> ConfigMismatchesPersistent: number of devices that experienced a configuration mismatch that was not automatically recovered

If a DeviceUnregistered alarm is showing a reason_code of 14 (configuration mismatch) and the device is not automatically recovering, you should re-save the device configuration in Cisco Unified CallManager Administration.

Installation Notes

This section contains these topics:

•Installing Firmware Release 8.2(2)SR1 for SCCP

•Installing Firmware Release 8.2(2)SR1 for SIP

Installing Firmware Release 8.2(2)SR1 for SCCP

This section describes how to install firmware release 8.2(2)SR1 for SCCP.

Firmware Upgrade Issues for SCCP

Note the following firmware upgrade issues:

•If you are currently running firmware earlier than 6.0(2) on a Cisco Unified IP Phone 7970G and 7971G-GE and want to upgrade to 8.0(x), you must first install an intervening 7.0(x) load to prevent upgrade failure. Cisco recommends using the most recent 7.0(3) load as the intervening load to avoid lengthy upgrade times.

•If you are currently running firmware 6.0(2) to 7.0(2) on a Cisco Unified IP Phone 7970G and 7971G-GE and want to upgrade to 8.0(x), you can do so directly. However, expect the upgrade to take twice as long as usual.

Cisco Unified IP Phone Expansion Module 7914

If you are using the Cisco Unified IP Phone Expansion Module 7914, you must upgrade the expansion module to firmware release S00105000200 before using the phone to support relevant 8.2(2)SR1 features on your expansion module.

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

Firmware Installation Procedure for SCCP

Before using the Cisco Unified IP Phone 7970G and 7971G-GE with Cisco Unified CallManager release 3.3 or later, you must install the latest firmware on all Cisco Unified CallManager servers in the cluster.

Before You Begin

If you are upgrading from an earlier firmware version, see the "Firmware Upgrade Issues for SCCP" section.

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 To download the firmware for Cisco Unified IP Phone 7970G and 7971G-GE, click one of the following hyperlinks and follow the prompts:

•For Cisco Unified CallManager 4.2 and earlier:

cmterm-7970_7971-sccp.8-2-2.exe

•For Cisco Unified CallManager 5.0 and later:

cmterm-7970_7971-sccp.8-2-2.cop

Step 3 To download the Readme file, which contains installation instructions for the corresponding firmware, go back to the URL shown in Step 1 and click the appropriate hyperlink.

cmterm-7970_7971-sccp.8-2-2-readme.htm

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

Installing Firmware Release 8.2(2)SR1 for SIP

This section describes how to install firmware release 8.2(2)SR1 for SIP.

Firmware Upgrade Issues for SIP

If you are currently running firmware 6.0(2) to 7.0(2) on a Cisco Unified IP Phone 7970G and 7971G-GE and want to upgrade to 8.0(x), be aware that upgrading will take up to twice as long to complete as usual.

Firmware Installation Procedure for SIP

Before using the Cisco Unified IP Phone 7970G and 7971G-GE with Cisco Unified CallManager 5.0 or later, you must install the latest firmware on all Cisco Unified CallManager servers in the cluster.

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 Double-click the following hyperlink, and follow the prompts to download the firmware:

cmterm-7970_7971-sip.8-2-2.cop

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

cmterm-7970_7971-sip.8-2-2-readme.htm

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

Caveats

This section contains these topics:

•Using Bug Toolkit

•Open Caveats

•Resolved 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

There are no open caveats for firmware release 8.2(2)SR1.

Resolved Caveats

This section contains these topics:

•Resolved SCCP Caveats

•Resolved SIP Caveats

Resolved SCCP Caveats

Table 1 lists Severity 1, 2 and 3 defects that are resolved for Cisco Unified IP Phone 7970G and 7971G-GE using the SCCP version of firmware release 8.2(2)SR1.

For more information about an individual defect, you can access the online record for the defect by clicking the Identifier or going to the URL shown. You must be a registered Cisco.com user to access this online information.

Because defect status continually changes, be aware that Table 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 as described in the "Using Bug Toolkit" section.

Resolved SIP Caveats

Table 2 lists Severity 1, 2 and 3 defects that are resolved for Cisco Unified IP Phone 7970G and 7971G-GE using the SIP version of firmware release 8.2(2)SR1.

For more information about an individual defect, you can access the online record for the defect by clicking the Identifier or going to the URL shown. You must be a registered Cisco.com user to access this online information.

Because defect status continually changes, be aware that Table 2 reflects a snapshot of the defects that were resolved at the time this report was compiled. For an updated view of resolved defects, access Bug Toolkit as described in the Using Bug Toolkit.

Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines

For information on obtaining documentation, obtaining support, providing documentation feedback, security guidelines, and also recommended aliases and general Cisco documents, 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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