Cisco Headend System Release 2.5 Release Notes

 

4000916 Rev C 

3 

 

Previously, subscribers were seeing a black screen instead of video in the PPV free 
preview window. This CR corrects the issue on the DNCS. 

 

If the siManager process unexpectedly shuts down, the process is designed to restart 
automatically. Previously, if the siManager process shut down more than three 
consecutive times, the process would not restart automatically. If you did not 
manually restart the siManager process, set-tops that rebooted would not have 
system information. This CR corrects the issue on the DNCS. 

 

When you delete a source from the Sources tab of the BFS Administration window, 
now the only sessions torn down automatically are the session for the deleted source 
and any sessions numbered higher than the session for the deleted source. In 
addition, if the deletion for the source fails, no sessions are torn down. 

 

The qamManager process correctly handles non-responsive QAMs. 

 

The MMMServer is now able to register with the BFS server, if the MMMAud 
cabinet is missing from the BFS client. 

 

A condition was reported where unknown DCM information was being sent to set-
tops. As a result, these set-tops would not correctly boot up in DOCSIS mode. To 
address this issue, Cisco added the Digital Storage Media Command and Control 
(DSM-CC) message header to the UNConfig message. 

 

Previously, the sgManager would intermittently send a refresh cache to the drm that 
caused a mismatch between the drm and dsm. This mismatch would result in 
segment information not being sent to the DSM; therefore, the content could go out 
in the clear. This CR corrects the issue on the DNCS. 

 

The auditQAM utility now supports GQAMs. 

 

EAS messages are now received correctly by multiple QPSK modulators.