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This document provides installation instructions for Unified CCE 12.6(1) ES44. It also contains a list of Unified CCE issues resolved by this engineering special. Review all installation information before installing the product. Failure to install this engineering special as described can result in inconsistent Unified CCE behavior.

This document contains these sections:

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About Cisco Unified CCE (and Unified CCE Engineering Specials)


The ES uses two registry settings (Located in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Cisco Systems,Inc.\ICM\Dialer)

1. EnhancedPredictiveDialing - This is a new registry setting that controls a feature added as an attempt to reduce idle times when there is a low hit rate for voice customers, and long idle agent times. This change adjusts dialing rate more aggressively. It is off by default and needs to be manually added to the outbound registry hive and set to 1 in order to be enabled and 0 to disable. (This needs to be added to both sides.) Once the registry item is added, the dialer process will need to be stopped and started.

2. ReclassifyTransferFailures - This is an existing registry setting which now controls how answering machine calls that are abandoned, due to lack of agent or IVR resources, are counted. When enabled (1) these calls are counted as answering machine calls. When disabled (0) these calls are counted as abandoned voice calls.

These registry settings are not dynamic and are not automatically kept in sync on the PGs. Each change will need to be done on both sides of a PG and a restart of the dialer process will be required to make the change effective.

Unified CCE Compatibility and Support Specifications


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Unified CCE Component Support

This section lists the Unified CCE components on which you can and cannot install this engineering special.

Supported Unified CCE Components

You can install Unified CCE 12.6(1) ES44 on these Unified CCE components:

Unsupported Unified CCE Components

Do not install this engineering special on any components other than the following:

Unified CCE Engineering Special Installation Planning


Installing Unified CCE 12.6(1) ES44


Installation of this patch requires that all Unified CCE services be shut down during the entire period of installation.

  1. It is always recommended to install this ES during a scheduled downtime.
  2. Using the Unified CCE Service Control, stop all the Unified CCE Services running on the system.
  3. Launch the installer provided and follow the instructions on the screen.

If the Unified CCE Services are set to manual, using the Unified CCE Service Control, start all the Unified CCE Services.

Uninstall Directions for Unified CCE 12.6(1) ES44


  1. To uninstall this patch, go to Control Panel.
  2. Select "Add or Remove Programs".
  3. Find the installed patch in the list and select "Remove".

Note: Remove patches in the reverse order of their installation. For example, if you installed patches 3, then 5, then 10 for a product, you must uninstall patches 10, 5, and 3, in that order, to remove the patches from that product.

Resolved Caveats in this Engineering Special


This section provides a list of significant Unified CCE defects resolved by this engineering special. It contains these subsections:


Note: You can view more information on and track individual Unified CCE defects using the Cisco Bug Search tool, located at: https://bst.cloudapps.cisco.com/bugsearch/search?null.


Resolved Caveats in Unified CCE 12.6(1) ES44

This section lists caveats specifically resolved by Unified CCE 12.6(1) ES44.

Index of Resolved Caveats

Caveats in this section are ordered by Unified CCE component, severity, and then identifier.

Identifier   Severity  Component  Headline
CSCvm80720  6  Outbound  UCCE Outbound Option Predictive Algorithm Improvement

Detailed list of Resolved Caveats in This Engineering Special

Caveats are ordered by severity, then by defect number.


Defect Number: CSCvm80720

Component: Outbound

Severity: 6

Headline: UCCE Outbound Option Predictive Algorithm Improvement

Symptom: Abandoned rate observed to be inconsistent with the current predictive algorithm.

Conditions:
Predictive outbound dialer with UCCE.

Workaround:
None

Further Problem Description:
Try to tune the baDialer performance with changes to Gain and Lines Per Agent, but still not seeing the expected hit rate.
Under predictive mode with AMD 80% configured with Transfer to Agent and also when numbers of agents are less per skill group (5 to 10 Agents) dialer dails very slow (lines per agent becomes 1 though the configured lines per agent is 10, Predictive Algo reduces it to 1 within 5 minutes) And also it is found that agent idle time is huge.

Caveats resolved in earlier ESs and included as part of Unified CCE 12.6(1) ES44

ES#

Identifier

Severity

Component

Headline

Comments

ES15

CSCvx81625

2

Outbound

Outbound dialer dials more calls than port per agent (PPA) configuration

 

 

ES39

CSCwc61797

2

Outbound

Dialer crashes when receiving 183 malformed SIP packet from remote end

 

 


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