======================================================================================= readme.txt Nov. 2010 Dialogic(R) NaturalAccess(TM) Development Environment Release 9.0.4 Readme ======================================================================================= - Refer to Section 6 of this document for new features supported in this release. - Before carrying out a NaturalAccess installation, uninstall all previous versions, not just of NaturalAccess, but also of VideoAccess if previoulsy installed - NaturalAccess products do not include patent or other intellectual property rights ("IPR") with respect to vocoders complying with the industry standards G.723.1 and/or G.729. For those customers who have not licensed such rights independently from the respective IPR holders, Dialogic will provide such rights with respect to either or both standards for an additional charge. This charge is passed through to the respective holders. Contact your Dialogic sales representative. - The cgsetkey program, installed as part of NaturalAccess, was derived from source code obtained from the KAME project,http://www.kame.net. This source code was used in accordance with the following license: /* * Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999 WIDE Project. * All rights reserved. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions * are met: * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * 3. Neither the name of the project nor the names of its contributors * may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software * without specific prior written permission. * * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE PROJECT AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND * ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE * ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE PROJECT OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE * FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL * DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS * OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) * HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT * LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF * SUCH DAMAGE. */ (C)Copyright 2010 Dialogic Corporation ******************************************************************************** ****************************IMPORTANT NOTICES*********************************** - For the availability of this software package for other operating system platforms, or for updates for this software package, please check the "Software and Downloads" page at http://www.dialogic.com/products/tdm_boards/system_release_software/download/natural-access-software.htm ================================================================================ 1. Contents of NaturalAccess ================================================================================ NaturalAccess 9.0.4 contains the following products: ag-cas - 2.363 ag-isdn - 1.993 cnf - 2.223 ctaccess - 4.233 cx2000 - 1.153 dlcp_cg - 1.223 fusion - 4.593 naabstrct - 4.233 nabase - 4.233 nacore - 4.233 nademos - 4.233 nadriver - 4.233 nadsp - 4.233 naruntime - 4.233 nccsip - 2.013 nfx - 4.323 nmslm - 2.273 oam - 1.243 spaccess - 1.213 vaccess - 3.3 Each Natural Access product now includes a module identification signature file (*.sgn). A pair of utilities, installed by the Natural Access package, use the signature files to provide version information about product modules (files). The utilities are nmsabout and nmssearch. ================================================================================ 2. Product Compatibility ================================================================================ All products contained in NaturalAccess are fully compatible with each other. Product compatibility and dependency checking for the products is part of the NaturalAccess installation procedure. You will be informed of known dependencies and incompatibilities during the NaturalAccess installation process. This release of NaturalAccess supports the following operating systems only: RedHat Linux 5 Update 3 (32-bit) RedHat Linux 5 Update 3 (64-bit) (Compatibility Mode) Sparc Solaris 10 (5/09) (Compatibility Mode) ================================================================================ 3. Installation Overview ================================================================================ Refer to the installation booklet for detailed installation instructions. ================================================================================ 3.1. Dialogic Products ================================================================================ The installation program prompts you for system environment information so it can determine the applicable Dialogic products for your system. It then launches the individual installation programs for each of these products using the information specified. ================================================================================ 4. Installation Specifications ================================================================================ Only one installation cycle is required to install all the applicable products for your system. ***Notes: Remove all existing NaturalAccess components, and VideoAccess (vaccess) before the installation of NA9.0.4. The (base_install_dir)\install.log file contains a record of all the NaturalAccess product installations. ================================================================================ 4.1. CTA Configuration Specifications ================================================================================ The NaturalAccess installation updates the [ctasys] section of the cta.cfg file with service and service manager specifications as follows: Package cta.cfg Update ------------------------------------------------------------------ NaturalAccess | Service = ncc, adimgr | Service = adi, adimgr | Service = dtm, adimgr | Service = swi, swimgr | Service = vce, vcemgr | Service = sai, saimgr | Service = ncc, sipmgr ------------------------------------------------------------------- OAM | Service = oam, oammgr ------------------------------------------------------------------- CX 2000 | Service = cdi, cdimgr ------------------------------------------------------------------ NaturalFax | Service = nfx, nfxmgr | Service = fax, faxmgr | Service = fxm, adimgr ------------------------------------------------------------------ NaturalConference | Service = cnf, cnfmgr ------------------------------------------------------------------ ISDN | Service = isdn, adimgr | Service = imgt, adimgr ------------------------------------------------------------------ Fusion | Service = msp, mspmgr ------------------------------------------------------------------ USAI | Service = sai, saimgr ------------------------------------------------------------------ ================================================================================ 4.2. Minimum Installation Requirements ================================================================================ Typical installation will require approx. 100.0 MB ================================================================================ 5. Product Release Notes ================================================================================ Each Natural Access product has its own release notes. These release notes are accessible by using the CD Browser on the Release Notes page. They are displayed in the default *.txt file program. These files are installed with their package in the (base install dir)\doc directory. ================================================================================ 5.1. Product Documentation ================================================================================ NaturalAccess documentation is available from the NaturalAccess Software Download page on the Dialogic web site, www.dialogic.com. ================================================================================ 6. New/Removed Features ================================================================================ NaturalAccess 9.0.4 Service Update supports the following products and features: ================================================================================ 6.1. OS and Compiler Support ================================================================================ Linux: - support for Red Hat Linux 5 Update 3 - gcc version 4.1.2 20070626 Solaris: - Support for Sparc Solaris 10 (5/09) (compatiblility mode) - gcc 3.3 ================================================================================ 6.2. Features included in SU 9.0.4 ================================================================================ - Video Access package incorporated under the NaturalAccess package and qualified under: RHEL 5.3, 32-bit RHEL 5.3, 64-bit (compatiblility mode) SPARC Solaris 10, (compatiblility mode) - Universal Speech Access (SAI) - MRCP 1.0 - SIP for Natural Call Control (NCCSIP) - Native play & record added to EVRC codec (supports the EDTX file format and the raw EVRC file format). The evrc_convert utility converts raw EVRC files to EDTX file formats and vice versa. Type evrc_convert -h for the list of options. The natprtest utility has been updated to accept the new EVRC codec ids. - DTMF parameter control added to Fusion encoders - ISDN: Q.Sig Transfer (path replacement) support added - NMSabout is replacing "Ctavers" and "Naver" to check installed package versions (ctavers and Naver utilities no longer being maintained; will be removed in subsequent release) - AG 2000 PCI Media Boards under Linux 5.3 compatibility mode - AG 2000C CompactPCI Media Boards on Red Hat Linux and Intel and SPARC Solaris - CX 2000 Series Station PCI Boards on all supported OSs - CX 2000 CompactPCI Boards on Linux and Solaris - HiZ support for the CG 6565e PCI Express Media Board Features no longer supported under NaturalAccess, beginning with this release include: - PPX service - V5.2 protocol - GR303 protocol ================================================================================ 6.3. Supported Boards ================================================================================ AG 2000 AG 2000-BRI AG 2000C CG 6060 CG 6060C CG 6565 CG 6565 pci-x CG 6565C CG 6565 pci Express CX 2000 CX 2000C Boards no longer supported under NaturalAccess, beginning with this release include: - AG 4000 - AG 4000C - AG 4040 - AG 4040C - CG 6000 - CG 6000C - CG 6100C - CG 6500C - QX 2000 ================================================================================ 6.4. NaturalAccess License Manager (NMSLM) ================================================================================ You must install the latest Java runtime and LibXP rpm for the License Manager to function properly. Latest Java runtime can be installed from here: http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp Without the latest java runtime, you may experience the following error: ./nmslm_tool Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /opt/nms/nmslm/jre/li b/i386/libawt.so: libXp.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or di rectory at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1586) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1503) at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:788) at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:834) at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibraryAction.java:50) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at sun.awt.NativeLibLoader.loadLibraries(NativeLibLoader.java:38) at sun.awt.DebugHelper.(DebugHelper.java:29) at java.awt.Component.(Component.java:506) ================================================================================ 7.0. Patches integrated since the last version of NaturalAccess ================================================================================ Patch# Product Description ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 92093 NCCSIP Call progress done event comes after disconnect 9125 RUNTIME Board runtime rollup patch 9209 CNF CNF Failed when making one or two calls on the T1 trunk 9208 CTACCESS Cannot query echo device on CG 6060 PCI boards that have 1 or 2 trunks 92011 AG-ISDN ISDN, ETIS cannot send a NOTIFY message from the active user side state 91907 NFX Fix incorrect reference to buffer size 9170 AG-ISDN Adding support for 4ESS transfer connect ss to isdn generic stack 9162 CTACCESS ctaGetVersion returns get wrong cta minor version 91297 CTACCESS CG board crash 9114 AG-ISDN Supporting QSIG diversion and exposing fields to NCC layer 91067 CNF CNF app crashes when coaching is enabled 9101 FUSION Adds RTP endpoint send-2833 command 9100 CTACCESS Adds adiQueryEnergy 9098 CX2000 CX driver failed to open at boot 82152 CTACCESS Board errors 1986 and 1998 9097 CTACCESS AG2000 record function update for AG2000 support ================================================================================ 7.1 Known issues/Limitations. ================================================================================ On Red Hat Linux 5.3 32-bit, under certain conditions during Video Access load, when using play/record, the following error may occur: "APIERR: h324Start: tsiLockMutex returned" ================================================================================