[cisco-voip] Phone/CM Locale Questions

Tue Apr 5 10:06:59 EDT 2011

Yes, I've noticed that...the whole part about it not being listed means it's not supported. While I can appreciate that at a first level support, they should be able to escalate it within a reasonable time to the business unit responsible for review. 

Let's face it, documentation will never be up to date. As customers we have to expect that. But at the same time if someone isn't going to update the documentation throughout the product lifecycle, they should at least review it when a customer points out an issue. And the documentation should be updated quickly after that. 

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Voll" <svoll.voip at gmail.com> 
To: "Wes Sisk" <wsisk at cisco.com> 
Cc: "James Brown" <James.Brown at barclayswealth.com>, cisco-voip at puck.nether.net, "Lelio Fulgenzi" <lelio at uoguelph.ca>, "Ed Leatherman" <ealeatherman at gmail.com> 
Sent: Monday, April 4, 2011 6:04:30 PM 
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Phone/CM Locale Questions 

Just had a Telepresence with John Hernandez last week. Documentation was one of the three things we talked about or the lack there of. 

<Rant> 

Oh, and Cisco is now on the kick of if it's not listed, it's not supported. even if the version numbers are the same........ if you can't find a doc that list support, its not. 

As I told John last week, Microsoft products support there other Microsoft products. Shouldn't Cisco. 

</Rant> 

Scott 

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Wes Sisk < wsisk at cisco.com > wrote: 

Inline, ws. 

On 3/30/2011 2:16 PM, James.Brown at barclayswealth.com wrote: 

All,

Is anyone else finding the documentation around locales slightly hit and miss? ws: Yes. Please voice this to your Cisco account team. There is acute attention and action in the documentation arena at the moment. Ears are open for customers who speak up. 

So far, I have...

* Phone Only locales control the endpoint LCD language
* CM Locales provide cadence and CCMUser language
* CM Locales require an update with each CUCM major version
* PO Locales require an update with the endpoint firmware

Could anyone clarify whether a PO update really has to be applied when SCCP firmware is upgraded? ws: 

Q: Do I need to install a new Phone Only locale every time after I upgrade my IP phone firmware? Localization team only releases Phone Only Locales for FW with changes on phone dictionaries or internationalization. In another words, we do not have POLI release for every FW release. When customer upgrades the firmware without upgrade their CUCM, they should install the Phone Only locale with the same major.minor number with the new FW. For example, if they upgrade the from FW 8.5.3 (with POLI 8.5.3) to FW 8.5.4, POLI 8.5.3 is also good for FW 8.5.4. If they upgrade FW from 8.5.4 to 9.0.1, they will need to install POLI 9.0.1. 

And would this update need to be applied to all nodes, or just the TFTP servers? ws: 

Q: Do locales need to be installed on every Node? 

Cisco Unified Communications Locale Installer MUST be applied to each and every Cisco Unified Communications Manager server in a cluster, starting with the publisher. After installation has completed, it is essential to reboot each and every platform in order for all user and network locale changes to become fully activated. 

Q: How to use Phone Only Locales? 

Cisco Unified Communications Locale Installer for Cisco Unified IP Phones ensures localised phones are kept up-to-date with the latest dictionaries after the firmware is upgraded. The full Cisco Unified Communications Locale Installer for Cisco Unified Communications Manager must be installed prior to installation of a Phone Only locale installer . For example, with CUCM 5.1 and Firmware 8.4.3, CUCM LI 5.1.x need to be installed first, then install Phone Only LI 8.4.3 for firmware updates. 

Is a cluster reboot really needed, just to load a few additional dictionary files to the phones? ws: 

Q: Do locales need to be installed on every Node? 

Cisco Unified Communications Locale Installer MUST be applied to each and every Cisco Unified Communications Manager server in a cluster, starting with the publisher. After installation has completed, it is essential to reboot each and every platform in order for all user and network locale changes to become fully activated. 

Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Regards

James.

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