Release Notes for Cisco Prime Collaboration
Provisioning 11.1
Published Date: 11 February 2016
Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning provides provisioning for Cisco Unified Communications
initial deployments and implementations. It remains deployed to provide ongoing operational
provisioning and activation services for individual subscriber changes.
See Cisco Prime Collaboration 11.x Data Sheet for further details. You can download the image from
the Cisco Prime Collaboration software download site.
Contents
These release notes contain the following sections:
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New Features and Changed Features, page 1
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Cisco Prime Collaboration Bugs, page 4
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Related Documentation, page 5
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Accessibility Features in Cisco Prime Collaboration, page 6
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Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request, page 6
New Features and Changed Features
Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning 11.1 supports the following new features.
Quick Service Provisioning for Existing Users
Provisions initial or additional services for a user already defined in Prime Collaboration Provisioning,
without using the ordering wizard that involves multiple steps to order a service. An Add-on Service is
available for quick provisioning in the Service Details pane on the User Provisioning page. For more
information, see the Accessing User Records for a User section.
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New Features and Changed Features
Batch Provisioning Support Enhancement
The following services are supported through the Batch Provisioning:
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Geolocation
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Geolocation Filter
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Run On All Active Unified CM Nodes
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Incoming Called Party Unknown Use Device Pool CSS
For more information, refer to the Batch Help available in the Prime Collaboration Provisioning
application.
New Attribute Support in Hunt Pilot
The following attributes are supported in Hunt Pilot through Batch Provisioning, and the user interface
through the Infrastructure Configuration and Configuration template:
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Alerting Name
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ASCII Alerting Name
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Maximum Hunt Timer
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Do Not Forward Unanswered Calls
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Use Forward Settings of Line Group Member
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Forward Unanswered Calls to:
– Destination
– Calling Search Space
For more information, refer to the Batch Help available in the Prime Collaboration Provisioning
application.
Service URL on Endpoint Support
You, as an administrator, can specify the Service URLs (SURLs) in the endpoint/UDP templates so that
standardized services (such as weather reports or stock information) appear on the endpoints of the user.
This is:
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Supported through Batch Provisioning and user interface.
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Merged with Subscribe Service attribute.
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Available while ordering endpoints and EM Access, and creating service template.
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You must run subscriber synchronization to get all the existing SURL.
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You can add, change, or remove SURL for endpoints and EM Access.
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For Cisco Unified CM 9.x, Index, Label, and ASCII Label attributes are supported for SURL. For
Cisco Unified CM 10.x and above, only Index and Label attributes are supported for SURL.
For more information, refer to the Batch Help available in the Prime Collaboration Provisioning
application.
SMTP Notification Setting on Cisco Unity Connection
You can provision SMTP Notification device settings for users in Cisco Unity Connection through batch.
It enables users in Cisco Unity Connection to add, modify, or remove the SMTP Notification device.
For more information, see Batch Action File Columns for Adding, Changing, or Removing SMTP
Notification Device.
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New Features and Changed Features
Connect Inbound Call before Playing Queuing Announcement
The following infrastructure products are supported through batch provisioning's add and change
functionality:
– SIP Profile
– H323 Gateway
You have the option to enable this check box if you want Cisco Unified CM to send the carrier a
CONNECT message before playing the hunt group announcements. You should enable this feature if the
carrier trunk does not support in-band call status updates or if external callers report that they are unable
to hear hunt group announcements.
For more information, refer to the Batch Help available in the Prime Collaboration Provisioning
application.
Process Management
You can restart services such Apache, WildFly, PostgreSQL, and NICE from the user interface.You can
also:
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Reboot the Linux server and restart the Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning application.
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Know when and who restarted the service from the restart history table.
For more information, see Process Management.
Schedule Synchronization
The Scheduled Synchronization command line script utility is now migrated to user interface. Using
schedule synchronization, you can schedule periodic processor and domain synchronization. You can
edit, cancel, and delete existing synchronization jobs and view details such as the job status,
synchronization status.
On upgrade, the earlier configured command-line schedule synchronization is migrated to the job in the
user interface.
For more information, see Schedule Synchronization.
SSL Certificate Enhancements
You can generate, download, and view the certificates through the user interface. You can also upload
provisioning and LDAP certificates.
For more information, see Managing SSL Certificate.
Monitoring the Nice Server
You can verify the NICE server status through Administration > Process Management. Administrators
can receive notification by email on the NICE server failure. A NICE Restart check box, under
Administration > System Notification Settings, enables you to send email notification about the NICE
server restart.
Service Template Assignment Enhancement
In the User Role setup page, the Service Template Assignment table is added with a new Endpoint Model
column. The new column enables different phone models to be defined with their default templates, so
that the quick provisioning function can use this setup to automatically choose the template.
For more information, see Adding User Roles.
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Cisco Prime Collaboration Bugs
General
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Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning 11.1 supports Cisco UC 11.5 devices.
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The supported devices for this release are listed in the Supported Devices for Cisco Prime
Collaboration Provisioning 11.1 document.
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The supported browser versions are listed in the Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning 11.x Install
and Upgrade Guide.
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The Versions drop-down field is no longer displayed in the user interface when Cisco Unified
Communications Manager Express and Cisco Unity Express are chosen during the process of adding
a device.
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The following timer attributes are supported for the Cisco ATA 190 endpoint (Unified CM 11.5)
through the Prime Collaboration Provisioning user interface:
– Reorder Delay (0-30s)
– RTP Packet Time (10-160ms)
Cisco Prime Collaboration Bugs
For more information on a specific bug or to search all bugs in a specific Prime Collaboration release,
see Using the Bug Search Tool, page 5.
This section contains the following information:
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Open Bugs, page 4
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Using the Bug Search Tool, page 5
Open Bugs
The following tables list the open bugs in Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning 11.1:
Table 1
Open Bugs in Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning 11.1
Bug ID
Description
CSCva02873
When upgrading from Prime Collaboration Provisioning 10.6 to Prime
Collaboration Provisioning 11.1 or above, CA-signed certificates are removed and
self-signed certificates are created. The existing CA-signed certificate is backed
up in /opt/Temp/cupm11.1-*/httpd. You have to manually configure the CA-signed
certificates. Refer Known Issue section in the Cisco Prime Collaboration
Provisioning 11.x Install and Upgrade Guide for the procedure to manually
configure the CA-signed certificates.
CSCuw03504
150K/20K/3K: Subscriber Syncs on Unity Connection are not successful. You
must install a patch on both, the Prime Collaboration server, and the Unity
Connection server. This patch can be obtained from your TAC representative.
CSCuu32242
Batch UI: Some issues are observed in stopping a batch project.
CSCuy85184
When you are upgrading from the base version 9.x through any intermediate
supported upgrade paths, for example: 9.x > 10 > 10.5.1 > 10.6 > 11.0 > 11.1, you
must delete /opt/cupm/sep/ipt/lib/commons-collections.jar file and then perform
upgrade.
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Using the Bug Search Tool
Using the Bug Search Tool
Use the Bug Search tool to search for a specific bug or to search for all bugs in a release.
Step 1
Go to http://tools.cisco.com/bugsearch.
Step 2
At the Log In screen, enter your registered Cisco.com username and password; then, click Log In. The
Bug Search page opens.
Note
If you do not have a Cisco.com username and password, you can register for them at
http://tools.cisco.com/RPF/register/register.do.
Step 3
To search for a specific bug, enter the bug ID in the Search For field and press Return.
Step 4
To search for bugs in the current release:
a.
In the Search For field, enter Prime Collaboration 11.1 and press Return. (Leave the other fields
empty.)
b.
When the search results are displayed, use the filter tools to find the types of bugs you are looking
for. You can search for bugs by modified date, status, severity, and so forth.
Tip
To export the results to a spreadsheet, click the Export All to Spreadsheet link.
Related Documentation
The following documents are available for Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning 11.1.
Document Title
What is Included
Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning Release New features, enhancements, limitations, and
Notes, 11.1
bugs in Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning
11.1.
Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning Install
and Upgrade Guide, 11.x
Information on installation and upgrade
procedures for Cisco Prime Collaboration
Provisioning 11.x.
Procedure for:
Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning Guide Standard and Advanced, 11.x
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Installation of Cisco Prime Collaboration
Provisioning 11.0 or 11.1.
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Upgrade to Cisco Prime Collaboration
Provisioning 11.1 or 11.0 from Cisco Prime
Collaboration Provisioning 11.0 or 10.x.
Information on new and existing features in Prime
Collaboration Provisioning 11.0 and 11.1.
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Accessibility Features in Cisco Prime Collaboration
Document Title
What is Included
Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning 11.0
Northbound Interface Guide
Information on the Cisco Prime Collaboration
Provisioning northbound interfaces, and how to
use them. This document is applicable for Prime
Collaboration Provisioning 11.0 and 11.1.
Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning 11.1
Open Source
Lists of licenses and notices for open source
software used in Cisco Prime Collaboration
Provisioning 11.1.
Supported Devices for Cisco Prime Collaboration Devices supported by Prime Collaboration
Provisioning 11.1
Provisioning.
System Capacity for Cisco Prime Collaboration
11.1
Maximum capacity of Cisco Prime Collaboration
Provisioning 11.1 when it is installed on a system
that meets the virtual machine requirements.
Required Ports for Prime Collaboration
Ports required for Cisco Prime Collaboration
Provisioning servers to communicate with the
devices and applications.
Supported Time zones for Prime Collaboration
Time zones supported by Cisco Prime
Collaboration.
Setting Up Devices for Prime Collaboration
Provisioning
Information on how to configure devices on the
network before you can manage them in Cisco
Prime Collaboration Provisioning.
Troubleshooting Cisco Prime Collaboration
Information on how to troubleshoot problems
regarding installing and upgrading Cisco Prime
Collaboration, Licensing, Provisioning and so on.
Accessibility Features in Cisco Prime Collaboration
All product documents are accessible except for images, graphics, and some charts. If you would like to
receive the product documentation in audio format, braille, or large print, contact
[email protected].
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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This document is to be used in conjunction with the documents listed in the “Related Documentation” section.
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