Cisco Wireless IP Phone 8821 Release Notes for Firmware Release 11.0(3)SR6

New and Changed Features

Related Documentation

Cisco Wireless IP Phone 882x Series Documentation

Cisco Unified Communications Manager Documentation

Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express Documentation

Installation

Installation Requirements

Install Firmware Release 11.0(3)SR6 on Cisco Unified Communications Manager

Install Firmware Release 11.0(3)SR6 on Cisco Communications Manager Express

Limitations and Restrictions

Phone Behavior During Times of Network Congestion

Health-Care Environment Use

Recording Tone Volume Limitation

View Caveats

Cisco Unified Communication Manager Public Keys

Unified Communications Manager Endpoints Locale Installer

Cisco IP Phone Documentation Updates on Cisco Unified Communications Manager

Cisco IP Phone Firmware Support Policy

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Cisco Wireless IP Phone 8821 Release Notes for Firmware Release 11.0(3)SR6

These release notes support the Cisco Wireless IP Phone 8821 Firmware Release 11.0(3)SR6.

The following table describes the systems and versions that the phone requires.

System

Minimum Version

Recommended Versions

Cisco Unified Communications Manager

9.1(2)

10.5(2), 11.0(1), 11.5(1), and later

Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express

10.5 through Fast Track

11.0, 11.5, 11.7 (native support), and later

Cisco Unified Survivable Remote Site Telephony

10.5

11.0, 11.5, 11.7, and later

Cisco Wireless LAN Controller

8.0.121.0

8.0.152.0, 8.2.166.0, 8.3.133.0, 8.5.105.0

Cisco IOS Access Points (Autonomous)

12.4(21a)JY

12.4(25d)JA2, 15.2(4)JB6, 15.3(3)JF1

Cisco Meraki

New and Changed Features

This release contains no new or changed features.

Related Documentation

Use the following sections to obtain related information.

Cisco Wireless IP Phone 882x Series Documentation

Refer to publications that are specific to your language, phone model, and call control system. Navigate from the following documentation URL:

Click Here

The Deployment Guide is located at the following URL:

Click Here

Cisco Unified Communications Manager Documentation

See the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Documentation Guide and other publications that are specific to your Cisco Unified Communications Manager release. Navigate from the following documentation URL:

Click Here

Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express Documentation

See the publications that are specific to your language, phone model and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express release. Navigate from the following documentation URL:

Click Here

Installation

Installation Requirements

Before you install the firmware release, you must ensure that your Cisco Unified Communications Manager is running the latest device pack. After you install a device pack on the Cisco Unified Communications Manager servers in the cluster, you need to reboot all the servers.

Note

If your Cisco Unified Communications Manager does not have the required device pack to support this firmware release, the firmware may not work correctly.

For information on the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Device Packs, see Click Here .

Install Firmware Release 11.0(3)SR6 on Cisco Unified Communications Manager

Before you can use the phone firmware release on the Cisco Unified Communications Manager, you must install the latest Cisco Unified Communications Manager firmware on all Cisco Unified Communications Manager servers in the cluster.

Procedure

Step 1

Go to the following URL:
Click Here

Step 2

Choose Cisco IP Phone 8800 Series.

Step 3

Choose Cisco Wireless IP Phone 8821.

Step 4

Choose Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Software.

Step 5

In the Latest Releases folder, choose 11.0(3)SR6.

Step 6

Select the firmware file, click the Download or Add to cart button, and follow the prompts.
Firmware file: cmterm-8821-sip.11-0-3SR6-15.k3.cop.sgn

Note:
If you added the firmware file to the cart, click the Download Cart link when you are ready to download the file.

Step 7

Click the + next to the firmware file name in the Download Cart section to access additional information about this file. The hyperlink for the readme file is in the Additional Information section, which contains installation instructions for the corresponding firmware.

Step 8

Follow the instructions in the readme file to install the firmware.

Install Firmware Release 11.0(3)SR6 on Cisco Communications Manager Express

You must download the Cisco Wireless IP Phone 8821 firmware image file from the software download center.

For information on Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express support, see Click Here .

For more information about this procedure, refer to the "Install and Upgrade Cisco Unified CME Software" chapter in the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express System Administrator Guide at this URL:

Click Here

Procedure

Step 1

To access the firmware files, go to this URL:
Click Here

Step 2

Choose Cisco Wireless IP Phone 8821.

Step 3

Choose Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Software.

Step 4

Choose 11.0(3)SR6 in the Latest Releases folder.

Step 5

Click Download or Add to cart and follow the prompts.
The file to download is cmterm-8821.11-0-3SR6-15.zip

Step 6

Extract the files from the zip file, manually copy them to the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express TFTP server (router flash), and enable them for TFTP.

Limitations and Restrictions

Phone Behavior During Times of Network Congestion

Anything that degrades network performance can affect phone voice and video quality, and in some cases, can cause a call to drop. Sources of network degradation can include, but are not limited to, the following activities:

- Administrative tasks, such as an internal port scan or security scan

- Attacks that occur on your network, such as a Denial of Service attack

Health-Care Environment Use

This product is not a medical device and uses an unlicensed frequency band that is susceptible to interference from other devices or equipment.

Recording Tone Volume Limitation

If you use the recording feature, we recommend that you change the Recording Tone Local Volume configured in Cisco Unified Communications Manager. Change the field from the default of 100 to 20.

The CUCM device packs (October 2017 and later) have the default set to 20.

For more information, look at CSCvc14605 using Click Here .

View Caveats

You can search for caveats using the Cisco Bug Search tool.

Known caveats (bugs) are graded according to severity level, and can be either open or resolved.

Before You Begin

To view caveats, you need the following items:

- Internet connection

- Web browser

- Cisco.com user ID and password

Procedure

Step 1

Perform one of the following actions:

- Use this URL for all caveats:

Click Here

- Use this URL for all open caveats:

Click Here

- Use this URL for all resolved caveats:

Click Here

Step 2

When prompted, log in with your Cisco.com user ID and password.

Step 3

(Optional)Enter the bug ID number in the Search for field, then press Enter.

Cisco Unified Communication Manager Public Keys

To improve software integrity protection, new public keys are used to sign cop files for Cisco Unified Communications Manager Release 10.0.1 and later. These cop files have "k3" in their name. To install a k3 cop file on a pre-10.0.1 Cisco Unified Communications Manager, consult the README for the ciscocm.version3-keys.cop.sgn to determine if this additional cop file must first be installed on your specific Cisco Unified Communications Manager version. If these keys are not present and are required, you will see the error "The selected file is not valid" when you try to install the software package.

Unified Communications Manager Endpoints Locale Installer

By default, Cisco IP Phones are set up for the English (United States) locale. To use the Cisco IP Phones in other locales, you must install the locale-specific version of the Unified Communications Manager Endpoints Locale Installer on every Cisco Unified Communications Manager server in the cluster. The Locale Installer installs the latest translated text for the phone user interface and country-specific phone tones on your system so that they are available for the Cisco IP Phones.

To access the Locale Installer required for a release, access Click Here , navigate to your phone model, and select the Unified Communications Manager Endpoints Locale Installer link.

For more information, see the documentation for your particular Cisco Unified Communications Manager release.

Note

The latest Locale Installer may not be immediately available; continue to check the website for updates.

Cisco IP Phone Documentation Updates on Cisco Unified Communications Manager

The Cisco Unified Communications Manager Self Care Portal (Release 10.0 and later) and User Options web pages (Release 9.1 and earlier) provide links to the IP Phone user guides in PDF format. These user guides are stored on the Cisco Unified Communications Manager and are up to date when the Cisco Unified Communications Manager release is first made available to customers.

After a Cisco Unified Communications Manager release, subsequent updates to the user guides appear only on the Cisco website. The phone firmware release notes contain the applicable documentation URLs. In the web pages, updated documents display "Updated" beside the document link.

Note

The Cisco Unified Communications Manager Device Packages and the Unified Communications Manager Endpoints Locale Installer do not update the English user guides on the Cisco Unified Communications Manager.

Administrators and users should check the Cisco website for updated user guides and download the PDF files. Administrators can also make the files available to the users on their company website.

Tip

Administrators may want to bookmark the web pages for the phone models that are deployed in their company and send these URLs to their users.

Cisco IP Phone Firmware Support Policy

For information on the support policy for phones, see Click Here .

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