Cisco Cisco TelePresence Management Suite (TMS) Version 15 Release Notes
New features
Cisco TelePresence Management Suite Release Notes Software Release Notes (14.6)
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Cisco TMS will now ignore the setting
Administrative Tools > Configuration > Conference Settings >
Advanced Conference Options >
Automatic MCU failover if set to If conference start or MCU polling
fails for conferences hosted by TelePresence Conductor.
Configurable length for auto-generated PINs
In
Administrative Tools > Configuration > Conference Settings
, a new setting has been introduced that
allows the administrator to specify the number of digits Cisco TMS will include when auto-generating
PIN codes for each conference created.
PIN codes for each conference created.
The name of the new field is Auto Generated Password Length. The setting is only applied when Auto
Generate Password on New Conferences is enabled.
Generate Password on New Conferences is enabled.
Notifications to all participants that a scheduled conference is ending
If a conference is hosted on a multipoint bridge, all conference participants can now receive in-video
notifications at configurable intervals; by default the notifications will be sent at 5 and 1 minutes before the
conference is scheduled to end.
notifications at configurable intervals; by default the notifications will be sent at 5 and 1 minutes before the
conference is scheduled to end.
Previously, in conferences hosted on a TelePresence MCU, TelePresence Server, or TelePresence
Conductor, only master participants that supported notifications sent directly from Cisco TMS would be
warned that the conference was ending.
Conductor, only master participants that supported notifications sent directly from Cisco TMS would be
warned that the conference was ending.
To enable this feature:
1. Go to
Administrative Tools > Configuration > Conference Settings
.
2. In
Conference Connection/Ending Options
, set Show In-Video Warnings About Conference
Ending to Yes.
To configure the interval:
1. Go to
Administrative Tools > Configuration > Conference Settings
.
2. In Show Message X Minutes Before End, enter the number of minutes before the end of the conference
that you want the message to appear.
To make the message appear multiple times, enter several values separated by a comma.
To make the message appear multiple times, enter several values separated by a comma.
The setting was previously supported only for the legacy TelePresence MPS system with only three possible
values: 10, 5, and 1.
values: 10, 5, and 1.
Improved support for CTS / TX endpoints
Cisco TMS now makes it possible for CTS / TX endpoints to:
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be the video conference master.
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receive and display alerts and notifications from Cisco TMS, including meeting start and end notifications
for the video conference master.
for the video conference master.
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receive setup buffers that can be used to determine whether and when to allow participants to call in early.
Note that the above features only work with software versions TX 6.0.2 and CTS 1.10.1.
New scheduling logs and improved log documentation
Four new logs for debugging routing and scheduling-related events have been added to Cisco TMS.
The logs are turned off by default. To activate, set "SchedulingLogger" to INFO or DEBUG in the configuration
files listed below.
files listed below.