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Release Notes for Cisco CDA Visual Quality Experience Application, Release 2.0
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Release Notes for Cisco CDA Visual Quality Experience Application, Release 2.0
Revised: March, 2008, OL-14479-01Contents
This information is in the release notes:
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"System Requirements" section
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Introduction
Cisco CDA Visual Quality Experience Application (VQE), Release 2.0, is the first VQE release. Cisco VQE offers service providers a set of technologies and products associated with the delivery of IPTV video services. VQE is designed to improve the quality of IPTV services and subscribers' viewing experiences. VQE is part of a Cisco end-to-end solution that builds video awareness into the network infrastructure. For Release 2.0, VQE technology is intended for wireline operators who offer managed broadcast (multicast) IPTV services using xDSL.
Cisco Content Delivery Application (CDA) Visual Quality Experience Application, Release 2.0, includes these major software components:
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These release notes cover VQE Server software and two related software components: VQE Channel Provisioning Tool (VCPT) and VQE Client Channel Configuration Delivery Server.
For information on VQE Server, VQE Channel Provisioning Tool, and VQE Client Channel Configuration Delivery Server, see the Cisco CDA Visual Quality Experience Application User Guide, Release 2.0.
For information on VQE Client, see the documentation that is provided in the TAR file containing the VQE Client software.
System Requirements
VQE Server runs on one Content Delivery Engine 110 (CDE110) appliance. VQE Channel Provisioning Tool and VQE Client Channel Configuration Delivery Server run on a separate CDE110 appliance.
The Cisco CDE110 comes with the required software pre-installed—either VQE Server software or VQE Channel Provisioning Tool and VQE Client Channel Configuration Delivery Server software. In each case, the required Linux, Apache web server, and other software is also pre-installed.
To access the VQE-S Application Monitoring Tool (VQE-S AMT or AMT) or the VQE Channel Provisioning Tool, you need a web browser. For these tools, the following web browsers are supported:
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The minimum screen resolution required for VQE-S AMT and VCPT is 1024 x 768 pixels.
Limitations and Restrictions
Cisco CDA Visual Quality Experience Application, Release 2.0, technology is intended for wireline operators who offer managed broadcast (multicast) IPTV services using xDSL.
Open Caveats
This release contains the following open caveats:
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Adding channels causes intermittent Error Repair loss.
When new channel lineups are sent to a VQE Server, temporary loss of Error Repair can occur for several seconds depending on the number of changes in the new channel lineup from the existing one on the VQE-S server.
Workaround: Update the channel lineups during a period of minimal viewing.
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Changing system time on VQE-S affects Error Repair.
When system time is changed with the date command on a VQE-S server that is actively repairing errors, all error repairs will stop indefinitely, and packet loss will be seen on the VQE Client devices. This appears to be due to a problem with the Linux routing daemons no longer advertising routes for VQE-S.
Workaround: The workaround for this problem is to perform the following steps in the order specified after the system time is changed:
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SNMPSA will not operate without the IMB driver.
On rare occasions after an ISO image installation, SNMPSA (SNMP subagent) may fail to start because an IMB driver is not installed correctly. The following messages are displayed when you run the vqes_init_setup script:
SNMPSA: IMB driver is not started, possibly due to kernel version mismatch.SNMPSA: SNMPSA will not operate without the IMB driverWorkaround: Reboot the machine after seeing this error.
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An "Invalid module format" error is thrown on ipmi/imb.ko.
The following errors are shown on the CDE110 system console and saved in first_boot_addon.log file during VQE-S installation first boot phase:
+ /usr/local/ism/driver/imbload startinsmod: error inserting '/usr/local/ism/driver/imb.ko': -1 Invalid module format/bin/mknod: missing operand after `0'Try `/bin/mknod --help' for more information.The error always occurs during the first boot phase of initial VQE-S install. The VQE-S installation patches the Linux kernel during first boot phase, and installs the Intel IPMI driver for the new kernel. The IPMI driver tries to load before the new kernel is loaded and causes the error messages shown on console and in first_boot_addon.log.
Workaround: No work around is required. The system will function correctly since the patched kernel will be used once the installation is complete and system is reloaded.
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The ospfd daemon fails to load if the log file /var/log/quagga/ospfd.log is larger than 2GB.
Quagga OSPFD will not load when its log file is larger than 2GB to avoid potential system performance issues. When the Quagga OSPFD log level is set to a too verbose level, such as informational or higher, and many OSPF messages are received by the server, the log file may grow to over 2GB within the logrotate checking interval. If ospfd is restarted when this condition occurs, it will fail to load. VQE-S is shipped with default logging level set to warning, and this problem should not occur in normal operational conditions.
Workaround: Manually remove the log file /var/log/quagga/ospfd/log and restart the ospfd service. We also recommend that the operator lower the logging level when this failure occurs.
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The ifup command produces a core dump of the arping process.
The ifup command used to activate an Ethernet interface executes a system utility named arping to do duplicate address detection on the network. In certain cases, the arping utility may stop unexpectedly while running an interface up or interface down operation. A message indicating that the duplicate address detection check has failed is displayed. However, the interface up operation will continue to run and apply configuration changes as expected. A second message to the console will indicate that arping has segfaulted. A core dump file of the arping process will be found in /var/core.
This failure can occur whenever an interface is started using the /sbin/ifup command and the VQE-S application is running.
Workaround: Retry the interface up operation by first issuing the interface down command /sbin/ifdown ethX. Then issue the interface up command /sbin/ifup ethX again.
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Manual startup or restart of tomcat5 service daemon fails.
The symptom is that the VQE-S Application Management Tool (AMT) does not work and simple restarts of the tomcat5 service fail to clear the problem. The tomcat 5 service is required for the VQE-S AMT to operate.
In some conditions, an attempt to restart the tomcat5 service fails and leaves tomcat5 in an inoperable state even though the process itself may appear to be running. The root cause of the problem is not known. However, the issue only seems to occur when the tomcat5 service has been started, or restarted, from within a Linux shell environment that has been reached with the su command rather than through a direct login.
Workaround: Perform the following:
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service tomcat5 restart
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On initial CD/DVD installation, error messages are dispayed on the system console.
The following error messages come from the CD/DVD drive during initial installation:
hda: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }hda: packet command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }ide: failed opcode was: unknownhda: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }Workaround: No workaround is needed because these messages do not affect CD/DVD perfomance. Users can safely ignore them.
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The SDP Parser does not perform syntax checks or checks for mandatory elements.
VQE-S may fail to perform syntax checks and checks for mandatory elements in the SDP data describing a channel. In cases where the syntax of the SDP data is incorrect, or where mandatory elements are missing from the SDP, the parser may incorrectly accept the channel description as valid and attempt to operate on it, with undefined results.
This condition would normally occur only in cases where the SDP description for a channel has been edited manually or has been constructed by a tool that does not correctly validate the constructed SDP before sending it to the VQE-S (or VQE-C). It should not occur in cases where the SDP has been constructed using the VQE Channel Provisioning Tool (VCPT).
Workaround: In cases where the SDP has been constructed by tools other than the VCPT or has been manually edited, it is suggested that the user perform an extra check to determine that the syntax of the constructed SDP is correct and that all required elements are present.
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VQE-S may generate syslog error messages when no error has occurred.
VQE-S may generate a syslog error message when, in fact, no error has occurred and the system is behaving as expected. The syslog message contains the text CP channel handle not match DP's from upcall event:channel. For example:
<<%VQES-CP-4-ERA_GENERAL_WARN>> ERA warning: CP channel handle not match DP's from upcall event:channel Channel 229.1.5.47When the VQE-S channel configuration file is modified (for example, one or more channels have been modified or deleted), one or more of the above syslog messages may be generated. If VQE-S channel configuration has recently been modified, these error messages are harmless and should be ignored.
Workaround: No workaround is needed. Ignore the message.
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Cache Manager rejects a channel with too little bandwidth configured.
When a channel is configured with less than approximately 1500Kbps of aggregate bandwidth, the Cache Manager may fail to properly create the channel, causing the channel to remain inoperative. The channel will be shown with a "red" status in the "Channels" summary screen of the VQE-S Application Monitoring Tool and VQE-S will fail to perform error repair for that channel.
When this condition occurs, a message similar to the following will be seen in the vqes.log file:
<<%VQES_DP-3-DP_BAD_ARG>> A bad parameter was passed to the Cache Manager API (detail: channel descriptor: number of buffers value 28l is not in range [256l,75000l])The bandwidth configured for a channel can be seen in the SDP description for the channel in the line:
b=AS:1000In the preceding line, the data rate of the stream (in Kbps) appears after AS.
Workaround: Reconfigure the channel with a bandwidth of at least 1500Kbps. VQE-S will still perform error repair properly for the channel even if its actual rate is less than the configured rate.
Important Notes
When restarting VQE-S-related processes, it is recommended that you perform the restart through the CDE110 system console. If you restart VQE-S-related processes through one of the CDE110 Ethernet interfaces, be careful to configure routing properly in case one of the routing daemons needs to be restarted. If routing is not configured properly, the CDE110 can become unreachable.
Notices
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OpenSSL/Open SSL Project
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/).
This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
This product includes software written by Tim Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com).
License Issues
The OpenSSL toolkit stays under a dual license, i.e. both the conditions of the OpenSSL License and the original SSLeay license apply to the toolkit. See below for the actual license texts. Actually both licenses are BSD-style Open Source licenses. In case of any license issues related to OpenSSL please contact openssl-core@openssl.org.
OpenSSL License:
Copyright © 1998-2007 The OpenSSL Project. All rights reserved.
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"This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/)".
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This package is an SSL implementation written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).
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This library is free for commercial and non-commercial use as long as the following conditions are adhered to. The following conditions apply to all code found in this distribution, be it the RC4, RSA, lhash, DES, etc., code; not just the SSL code. The SSL documentation included with this distribution is covered by the same copyright terms except that the holder is Tim Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com).
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Cisco CDA Visual Quality Experience Application (VQE), Release 2.0, includes Cisco-modified software derived from the following packages that are licensed under version 2 of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2):
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Related Documentation
Refer to the following documents for additional information about Cisco VQE and the Cisco CDE110 appliance:
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/video/cds/cda/vqe/2_0/user/guide/vqe_guide2_0.html
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/video/cds/cde/cde110/installation/guide/cde110_install.html
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/video/cds/cde/regulatory/compliance/cde110_rcsi.pdf
For information on VQE Client, see the documentation that is provided in the TAR file containing the VQE Client software.
The entire Content Delivery Systems documentation suite is available on Cisco.com at:
http://www.cisco.com/cisco/web/psa/default.html
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