Integrated Management - System Management 5.2 Release Notes

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1 Integrated Management - System Management 5.2 Release Notes Issue 1 May 2009

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3 Contents Integrated Management - System Management System Management 5.2 Release Notes Product Support Notices Enhancements Third-party software license Support for SSH Integrated Management - System Management 5.2 Release Notes May

4 Contents Integrated Management - System Management 5.2 Release Notes May 2009

5 Integrated Management - System Management 5.2 System Management 5.2 Release Notes Avaya delivered a major release Integrated Management 5.0 in January These release notes describe the contents of a minor release, Integrated Management release 5.2. The System Management Release 5.2 which is an offer under Integrated Management release 5.2 includes the following: Enhancements in Multi-Site Administration on page 4 Enhancements in Fault and Performance Manager on page 10 Enhancements in Integrated Management Database on page 11 Enhancements in System Management Installation and Upgrade on page 12 Product Support Notices Some problems are also documented as Product Support Notices (PSN). The PSN number defines the related document and appears in the Problem column in the tables. To read the PSN description online: 1. Go to the Avaya support site at 2. Scroll down to PRODUCT INFORMATION and click on Product Support Notices. 3. Type the last four digits of the PSN number into your web browser s Find on Page function to search the page for a link to the PSN. 4. Click on the PSN title link to open the PSN. Enhancements Many components were enhanced in Integrated Management - System Management Integrated Management - System Management 5.2 Release Notes May 2009

6 Integrated Management - System Management 5.2 Table 1: Enhancements in Multi-Site Administration Multi-Site Administration Support for Avaya Communication Manager Release 5.2 Support for S8300D server Support for UCID-info button on the IP and DCP sets types MSA enables users to administer the UCID-Info feature button on the station object. This new feature is available on the Button Assignment dialog boxes of the Add New Station, Change Stations, Add New Stations Template and System Manager Station (Add/Change) screens. Support for Customer-Specified Installation Directory In previous releases, the MSA application was installed at a default location '/opt/ avaya/msa'. MSA now supports the Customer-Specified Installation Directory feature in 5.2 release. Using this feature, the user can install the application at any other desired location. Support for the following new set types: 1603 SAGE IP Telephone Note: 1608 SAGE IP Telephone 1616 SAGE IP Telephone 9610SIP Telephone 9620SIP Telephone 9630SIP Telephone 9640SIP Telephone 9650SIP Telephone 16CC SIP Telephone 9670G Large Screen Telephone (Saffron) Note: There is no native support on Avaya Communication Manager (CM) for the 9670G Large Screen Telephone (Saffron). You must administer the 9670G as a Support for messaging system You can use the IA770 Messaging System, coresident with the CM, on the S8510 servers. 4 Integrated Management - System Management 5.2 Release Notes May 2009

7 Enhancements Support for new fields SIP Trunk field A new SIP Trunk field is available with 16CC, 4620SIP, 4620SIPCC, 9620SIP, 9630SIP, 9640SIP telephone set types. With this field, you can eliminate dual provisioning and integrate the administration of SIP stations between SIP-enabled services (SES) and the CM. Sac Breakthrough and Call Fwd All fields You can add, change, or duplicate new fields added to the Class of Restriction (COR) object. The new fields are available for both display and non-display telephone set types and are listed below: SAC/CF Override by Dialing? SAC/CF Override by Priority Call? SAC/CF Override Protection by Dialing? SAC/CF Override Protection by Priority Call? New fields for Call Pickup Alert button Two new pickup fields have been added to the Call-Pkup button. Another field Block Enhanced Call Pickup Alerting has been added to the COR group. Ability to refresh stations You can use the Station Cache update to automatically refresh stations that have been changed outside MSA or from TTI ports. You can schedule the task to run anytime between 1 and 12 hours. Improvement in response time The performance and speed of the server's response time to Web client requests have improved considerably. Support for external radius server To authenticate users, MSA and Integrated Management Database (IMD) have been linked with the external RADIUS server Support for cellular telephony You can detect cellular voice mails with a new field that has been added to the Station object in the System Manager (SM). Support for monitor and trace commands Specified users can run the Monitor and Trace commands to track stations and receive continuous updates. 5 Integrated Management - System Management 5.2 Release Notes May 2009

8 Integrated Management - System Management 5.2 Ability to reserve ports All users can reserve free and available ports for future use. Notes field to system locks System lock timetable feature Enhanced search to include coverage path Ability to search and report stations based on the features enabled Support for FQDN 6 Integrated Management - System Management 5.2 Release Notes May 2009

9 Enhancements Ability to list phones administered with ip softphone = y You can use the Find command to list stations that have a specific feature enabled. This function is primarily for the IP Softphone option, but it can also be applied to other options listed below: Adjunct Supervision Always Use Audible Message Waiting Auto Select Any Idle Appearance Bridged Call Alerting Bridged Idle Line Preference CDR Privacy Conf/Trans on Primary Appearance Coverage Message Retrieval Customizable Labels Data Restriction Direct IP-IP Audio Connections Display Client Redirection Distinctive Audible Alert EMU Login Allowed? Expansion Module H.320 Conversion Idle Appearance Preference Ignore Rotary Digits IP Audio Hairpinning IP Softphone LWC Activation LWC Log External Calls Multimedia Early Answer Mute Button Enabled Off Premises Station Per Button Ring Control Precedence Call Waiting 7 Integrated Management - System Management 5.2 Release Notes May 2009

10 Integrated Management - System Management 5.2 Redirect Notification Remote Office Phone? Restrict Last Appearance Select Last Used Appearance Switchhook Flash Survivable Trunk Destination Test Ability to view all translations Along with the reports currently available, you can also view all scheduled system translations, reports, and logs of multiple voice systems in a consolidated fashion, for a user. The default is view for all voice systems. Ability to add coverage path as a field You can include the coverage path as a value to search for in the Query Station form. 8 Integrated Management - System Management 5.2 Release Notes May 2009

11 Enhancements Ability to name reports After running multiple List Station reports at once, you can give each report a unique name to allow easy identification of these reports later. Support for cos-group object Class of Service (CoS) group object can be accessed from the System Manager task view. You can list up to 100 CoS groups as well as display, change, and duplicate CoS-groups for CM release 5.0 or later. You can also change the configuration of individual CoS-group properties and edit up to 15 CoS options within a group. The following options form a part of the CoS group: Auto Callback Call Fwd-All Calls Data Privacy Priority Calling Console Permissions Off-Hook Alert Client Room Restrict All Fwd-Off Net Call Forwarding Busy/DA Personal Station Access (PSA) Extended Forwarding All Extended Forwarding B/DA Trk-to-Trk Transfer Override QSIG Call Offer Originations Contact Closure Activation Automatic Exclusions VIP Caller Masking CPN/Name Override Call Forwarding Enhanced Priority IP Video Ad-hoc Video Conferencing 9 Integrated Management - System Management 5.2 Release Notes May 2009

12 Integrated Management - System Management 5.2 Table 2: Enhancements in Fault and Performance Manager Fault and Performance Manager Support for the RADIUS authentication of users FPM provides support for the authentication of users against the external FreeRADIUS server. Support for S8400 as an Enterprise Survivable Server (ESS). Support for the S8300D internal call controller media server. Support for the G430 media gateway with the Media Module MM118. Support for FPM as a managed element. Provision of ping service and device status notification FPM provides basic ping polling of the managed elements that enables customers to be notified when a device is unreachable. Provision of easy backup and restoration of FPM configuration data Information regarding entities like filters, collection data configuration, and scheduled reports are stored in a backup file and configured on a server. This information can be restored on a new server if the FPM server stops responding, or if the server is upgraded. Provision of a reorder functionality for carriers in the G650 cabinets A Reorder button helps users, who have the PositionCarriers capability assigned to them in the FPM role, to specify the order of carriers in the G650 cabinets. Provision of greater clarity in the IP Trunk map display FPM provides two buttons, Show Managed and Show All, on the IPT trunk display to enable or disable the display of far-end systems that are not managed by the FPM server. As FPM does not manage all IPT far-end systems, the new functionality lends clarity to the IPT displays. Provision of the additional Assistant Maintenance Objects: H323-SGR, PKT-BUS, PKT-INT and SIP-SGRP. 10 Integrated Management - System Management 5.2 Release Notes May 2009

13 Enhancements Provision of four performance report types: Performance: IP VoiceStats Jitter Performance: IP VoiceStats Delay Performance: IP VoiceStats PktLoss Performance: IP VoiceStats Data The FPM Report Manager lists the four reports in the GUI under the Performance category. FPM support for connections to either IP Addresses or Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN). Support for voice and network statistics report Support for Firefox web browser Support for main and LSP split registration Provision of hourly option of scheduling reports Table 3: Enhancements in Integrated Management Database Integrated Management Database Support for the following platforms that run Communication Manager 5.2: S8300B, S8300C and S8300D S8500B and S8500C S8510 S8710, S8720, S8720XL and S8730 S8400 and S8400B Support for the IMD Web client so that it runs on the Mozilla Firefox Web browser version 3.0. Support for the RADIUS authentication of the GUI access of the application IMD software provides a new page, titled RADIUS Server, to configure the RADIUS server or servers to be used for authentication. Support for the following additional user authentication configurations: RADIUS accounts that use Local permissions stored in IMD RADIUS accounts that use the open LDAP store RADIUS accounts that use the Microsoft Active Directory store 11 Integrated Management - System Management 5.2 Release Notes May 2009

14 Integrated Management - System Management 5.2 Provision of a Test RADIUS Servers button that tests the RADIUS server information from IMD. This button helps test the connection to the RADIUS server. Provision of a Copy button next to each user on the Users list that helps create a new IMD user by copying or duplicating the settings of an existing user. Supports following IMD roles: IMDAuditor, IMDPassMgr, IMDSecurity, IMDAdmin, IMDSuperUser Provision of a Copy button on the LDAP Groups page that helps create a new LDAP Group by copying or duplicating the settings of an existing LDAP Group. Provision of a new IMD Roles page in the IMD application for the addition, deletion and editing of IMD roles for users and LDAP groups. Provision of the capability PositionCarriers on the FPM roles definition. Addition of an Exporting Data capability besides the Importing Data capability IM allows users to export both Elements and Users data in the.csv format. Support for a new Secure Enhanced Alarm Receiver (SEAR) element. Addition of an notification to the administrator to unlock IMD login if the application locks the login of a user. User login is disabled when the login attempts of a user exceed the number of Authentication Fails set. Support for the installation of IMD in a customer specified directory. Provision for the random generation of passwords for the SM administrator users. Reminder to new MSA users regarding their Default Custom Privilege Table 4: Enhancements in System Management Installation and Upgrade System Management Installation and Upgrade Support for installations of the SM applications, IMD, MSA and FPM, in customer specified directories. up2date or YUM support for Red Hat Linux platforms. Ability to issue warnings to users for unsupported versions of third party RPMs. Ability to generate random passwords for the SM administrator users. 12 Integrated Management - System Management 5.2 Release Notes May 2009

15 Third-party software license Third-party software license This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation The licenses can be found at The adobe flash player is distributed under the adobe flash player end user license agreement ( Adobe Flash Player Copyright Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Patents pending in the United States and other countries. Adobe and Flash are either trademarks or registered trademarks in the United States and/or other countries. Support for SSH -2 The program SSH - 2 (Secure Shell) provides an encrypted channel for logging into another device over a network, executing commands on a remote device, and moving files from one device to another. SSH-2 provides strong host-to-host and user authentication as well as secure encrypted communications over an insecure Internet. Rather than validating identities using passwords, SSH-2 uses public key encryption to authenticate remote hosts. All the tools in Integrated Management use SSH Integrated Management - System Management 5.2 Release Notes May 2009

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