Release Notes for Cisco Conference Connection Release 1.1 (1)
These release notes describe important installation and configuration information and known problems for the Cisco Conference Connection. You might need to notify your Cisco Conference Connection users about some of the issues discussed in this document.
These release notes provide the following information:
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DDTS Number
Description
Solution/Work Around
CSCdt66668
If a participant is in a conference and places the conference on hold, the participant may be dropped from the conference. This may occur:
if the participant dials in directly through a Cisco CallManager and not through a gateway
if the participant answers a second incoming call
Note If a participant has entered
the conference through a
gateway, the conference does
not know that the participant
has placed the call on hold
and therefore does not take
any action.
The fact that the participant is dropped prevents the conference participants from having to listen to a hold tone or music on hold. When dropped from a conference because Hold is invoked, the participant must call back into the conference.
CSCdt69224
Participant information for a past conference shows an IP address, not the caller ID of the participant.
When viewing the participant information for a Past Conference, the "Participant" column may contain an IP address rather than a phone number. This normally occurs when the Caller ID is not available. In this instance, the IP address is the address of the Gateway (or sometimes the Cisco CallManager) that directed the call to Cisco Conference Connection.
Make sure Caller ID is reported by the gateway (a gateway configuration). Otherwise, when no caller ID is given, the Gateway IP address may appear.
CSCdt86769
If a time period during which scheduled conferences consume all or nearly all of the available conference ports, and a user tries to create a conference within 10 minutes of this full capacity period, the error "Conference Scheduling Failed" with the reason "no resource available" may appear. Conference scheduling is rounded to the nearest 5-minute interval.
Use the following guidelines when scheduling conferences:
Schedule conferences so that they only begin or end at 5-minute intervals (for example, 5:00, 5:05, 5:10, and so on).
Schedule a new conference so that it begins 10 minutes later than the last one ends.
Change the ending times of one or more existing conferences so that they end at the preceding 5-minute interval.
CSCdt87084
If the start date of the first occurrence of a repeating conference is after the end date, at least one meeting will be scheduled for that series, provided no other conflicts occur.
For example: On August, 20, 2001 (Monday) a recurring conference is scheduled to run every Wednesday, but the start and end date for the recurring conference is today (Aug 20, 2001). As a result, one conference will be scheduled for the series. This conference will run on Aug 22, 2001 (Wednesday), even though this is after the end date (Aug 20, 2001).
When scheduling repeating conferences, make sure that there is at least one valid conference that can run within the given start and end dates.
CSCdu01568
One or more participants in one or more conferences may be dropped from a conference without warning and without having taken any action.
There may be one or more causes for this problem:
A participant is directly dialed into a conference and invokes the Hold feature (or answers a second incoming call that automatically invokes the Hold feature). The Hold feature causes the participant to be dropped from the conference, which prevents the participants in the conference from hearing beeps or music on hold.
If one of the Cisco Conference Connection processes or server unexpectedly stops.
Here are some recommendations for avoiding this problem:
Do not use the hold feature, or if needed, redial into the conference.
CSCdu06957
Echo is heard while using Cisco Conference Connection.
This problem is generally caused by improper gateway configuration and thus is most prominent when external callers are involved in the conference. The most important parameter to adjust is the echo-cancel command, which is found on IOS gateways.
Other sources of echo include:
placing a handset face down on a hard surface, particularly when the volume is set to high
feedback from some headsets and handsets
poor quality speakerphones
Impedance mismatch between phones and their network connection (analog phones) or between a trunk and the CO connection (analog trunks).
One way to help eliminate various participants as the source(s) of echo is to ask them to mute their phones one by one (if possible). Or, if it is not possible to mute, then ask them to momentarily drop out of the conference.
Note Normally, the participant
who is not hearing echo is
usually the source of the
problem.
CSCdu20908
When several participants join the conference at the same time, or very close together, then the complete prompt ("A participant has joined the conference") or equivalent tone may not be heard completely for each participant who joined the conference.
Have the conference participants announce themselves when joining a conference.
CSCdu44471
If a phone user tries to transfer a caller into a Cisco Conference Connection conference, the transfer will not succeed (normally the consult portion of the call to the Cisco Conference Connection is lost).
The caller can be transferred to the Cisco Conference Connection dial-in number and instructed to enter the conference ID information.
CSCdu51093
Callers get a busy signal or are dropped when calling the primary Cisco Conference Connection number.
If Cisco CallManager "fails over" (switches the role of the primary to secondary), calls to the CTI Route point (primary number) will not be answered. Current conference participants are not affected, and it is still possible to join conferences using the IP Phone Service.
When Call Manager "fails over" to the primary call server, the primary number will then operate properly. In the interim, the Cisco Conference Connection server can be reached by internal callers through the IP Phone Service.
CSCdu73866
Microsoft Database Engine (MSDE) sometimes fails to install during the Cisco Conference Connection installation.
The cause of this is that the MSDE installation is running in single user mode. During the course of installation, if some other process gets a connection to the MSDE server, the installation fails since it cannot get a connection to the MSDE server (a user is already connected). These other processes can be any of the following:
Metalink agreements running on Call Manager machine
SQL Enterprise manager connecting to the MSDE
Monitoring services on the machine or the network
During installation of Cisco Conference Connection, ensure the following:
Disconnect the network cable on the machine where Cisco Conference Connection is being installed.
No metalink agreements are running. If there is a metalink agreement running on the Cisco CallManager machine, stop it.
No enterprise manager is trying to connect to MSDE on this machine.
CSCdv10356
During a conference, participants experience jittery voices, which may sound like the speaker is underwater, robotic, or clipped entirely.
This problem is most often observed when participants join a conference many different ways, most notably, through gateways and in a highly routed/switched network (multiple hops).
The problem can be resolved as follows:
1. Attach the Cisco Conference Connection directly to a switch.
2. Configure the switch to lock in 100 Mbps at Full Duplex.
3. Configure the PC NIC card to the same (100 Mbps/FDX).
a. From the Windows 2000 desktop, select Start > Settings > Control Panel >Network and Dial-up Connections
b. Select and right-click Local Area Connection and click Properties.
c. In the Local Area Connection Properties dialog box, click Configure to set the Ethernet card properties.
d. In the next dialog box, click the Advanced tab and select Link Speed & Duplex.
e. In the value field, select 100Mbps/Full Duplex.
4. Click OK.
CSCdv18352
During the installation of Cisco Conference Connection, the Scripts virtual directory may fail to be installed, and therefore the Cisco Conference Connection web components installation is incomplete.
After the installation, perform the following steps:
1. From the Windows 2000 desktop, select Start>Programs >Administrative Tools>Internet Services Manager.
2. In the left pane, select the Cisco Conference Connection Server.
3. In the right pane, double-click Default Web Site.
A list of all of the virtual directories appears in the right pane.
4. Check to see if the Scripts virtual directory appears in the list.
5. If the Scripts virtual directory does not appear in the list, in the right pane right-click Default Web Site and select New>Virtual Directory.
The Virtual Directory Wizard starts.
6. Click Next to continue.
7. In the Alias field, enter Scripts, and the click Next.
8. Click Browse, and browse to the C:\Inetpub\Scripts folder.
9. Click OK, and then click Next to continue.
10. Clear the Read and Run scripts (such as ASP) checkboxes, and then click Next.
11. Click Finish.
12. In the left pane, right-click Scripts and click Properties.
13. In the Execute Permissions field, select Scripts and Executables from the drop-down list.
14. Click OK, and then restart the Cisco Conference Connection Server.
Other Known Problems
Following is a list of other known problems with Cisco Conference Connection.
DDTS Number
Description
Solution/Work Around
CSCdt77086
If the repeat options are used when creating a conference, using the drop-down list boxes, it is possible to select invalid days, like February 30. An error appears when trying to schedule a repeating conference that has an invalid start or end day.
Do not select invalid dates and/or correct them after receiving such an error.
CSCdu43907
When attempting to join a conference through the primary number, the behavior of the system may differ. When calling internally, entry of an invalid conference ID results in a rapid busy tone, while entry of a Conference ID that has already been filled to maximum capacity results in a busy tone. However, external callers may be immediately dropped with no such tone(s).
A rapid busy tone indicates that the participant entered an invalid conference ID. A busy tone indicates that the conference capacity is full.
In the case of invalid IDs, redial the Cisco Conference Connection number and carefully enter the correct ID.
Note If an incorrect digit is
entered, the "*" key can be
pressed to start over.
Rapid busy will normally not be observed if the participants join a conference via the Cisco IP Phone 7960/7940. When a gateway is used to join a conference, it should be configured to provide error or busy tones to the callers (that is, it should propagate the notifications that it receives).
Once started, conferences cannot be expanded to allow more participants. If a conference is full and additional participants are needed, the conference must be stopped and recreated. All existing participants will need to dial back in to the new conference.
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