Release Notes
New features in XC2
Cisco TelePresence Conductor Release Notes (XC2.3.1) Page 4 of 21
Encrypted iX passthrough
Previously the iX protocol, used for example to support the ActiveControl feature on the TelePresence
Server, was passed through the TelePresence Conductor’s B2BUA. Now the B2BUA also allows Encrypted
iX to pass through.
SIPRemote Party ID (RPID) passthrough
The TelePresence Conductor’s B2BUA now supports the passthrough of SIP RPID, which is a SIP header
used by Unified CM to convey calling and connected line identity. SIP RPID is defined in the document draft-
ietf-sip-privacy-04. Although RPID is non-standard, it is implemented by a large number of vendors and is
included in most of Cisco’s SIP products.
TelePresence Conductor forwards the SIP RPID header without checking the validity of the identity
information contained in the header or the authority of the source. To indicate this, TelePresence Conductor
sets the screen parameter to no.
TelePresence Conductor does not support the ability to set the display name field to 'anonymous' for
endpoints requesting anonymity. All display names are forwarded on as they are.
Secure conference configuration passthrough
Previously when configuring a conference on Cisco TMS, the secure conference parameter was ignored.
This has now changed and the configuration is passed on to the conference bridges.
Certificate management
n The management of CA certificates has been improved, allowing you to view, upload and delete individual
CA certificates.
n New installations of TelePresence Conductor software now ship with a temporary trusted CA, and a
server certificate issued by that temporary CA. We strongly recommend that you replace the server
certificate with one generated by a trusted certificate authority, and that you install CA certificates for the
authorities that you trust. If you upgrade to this release from an earlier installation of TelePresence
Conductor software, your existing server and trusted CA certificates will not be affected.
Other enhancements and usability improvements
n The online help has a new skin and an improved search capability.
n When configuring firewall rules:
l You can choose whether to drop or reject denied traffic. On upgrade to XC2.3 or later, any existing
"deny" rules will now drop the traffic; prior to XC2.3 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.
n Improved web interface usability when switching between SRV and address record resolution modes when
configuring the address of an LDAP server for remote user account authentication.
n You have the option to take a tcpdump while diagnostic logging is in progress.
n The diagnostic logging feature has been extended to include:
l a tcpdump that can be enabled cluster-wide
l an xconfig file
l an xstatus file
l an indication on the web administration page of which user / IP address initiated the logging