n
The VCS's server and trusted CA certificates can be viewed in either a human-readable, decoded format,
or in their raw, PEM format.
Other enhancements and usability improvements
n
The online help has a new skin and an improved search capability.
n
There is a new
Cisco Unified Communications Manager (8.6.1 or later)
zone profile. This profile supports
BFCP and should be used in SIP trunk neighbor zones to Unified CM running version 8.6.1 or later.
n
The ephemeral port range can be configured via the web interface (
System > Administration
).
n
Maintenance mode can be configured via the web interface (
Maintenance > Maintenance mode
).
n
The Microsoft Lync B2BUA supports multiple TURN servers.
n
The
Lync B2BUA status
page now shows the number of active calls, and resource usage as a percentage
of the number of allowed Lync B2BUA calls.
n
A B2BUA service restart is no longer required to enable changes to the list of trusted hosts to take effect.
n
A contact email address and a proxy server can be specified when configuring the incident reporting server.
n
The DNS cache is flushed automatically whenever any DNS configuration is changed (
System > DNS
).
The
DNS
page also contains a manual option to flush the DNS cache.
n
When logging in, you now have to choose the administrator login option only if you are using "standalone
FindMe" i.e. FindMe without Cisco TMSPE.
n
CPL location node supports regex-based source alias rewriting.
n
Active Directory Service configuration: you can specify an override value for the NetBIOS machine name if
the
System host name
, which is used as the default name, exceeds 15 characters.
n
Previously-installed language packs can be deleted.
n
The VCS Starter Pack Express supports device provisioning for SX20 endpoints. Note: this is a preview
feature.
n
You have the option to take a tcpdump while diagnostic logging is in progress.
n
SIP network logging at the DEBUG level now includes the local address and port (as well as the
destination/source information).
n
You can specify the transport type to use for SIP calls from a DNS zone, when DNS NAPTR records and
SIP URI parameters do not provide the preferred transport information.
n
The VCS supports time-limited option keys. The options keys page displays the validity period of each key.
All pre-existing option keys have an
Unlimited
validity period.
n
Filtering options are only displayed on status and list pages if there is more than one page of information to
display. Status and list pages show 200 records per page, except for Log pages which show 1000 records
per page.
n
When configuring firewall rules:
l
You can choose whether to drop or reject denied traffic. Note that on upgrade to X8.1, any existing
"deny" rules will now drop the traffic; prior to X8.1 the traffic would have been rejected.
l
If you have made several changes there is now an option to revert all changes. This discards all pending
changes and resets the working copy of the rules to match the current active rules.
l
You can more easily change the order of the rules by using up/down arrow buttons to swap the priorities
of adjacent rules.
l
Rules can be configured for XMPP traffic.
n
The
Search rules
page now indicates if the target zone of a rule is unavailable.
n
Port conflict alarms now indicate the exact features and ports that are in conflict.
n
When performing a system backup, the backup filename is now prefixed by the software version number.
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