Enable P-Early-Media Support; Peer Firmware Sharing - Cisco 6800 Series Administration Manual

Enable P-Early-Media Support

Enable P-Early-Media Support
You can determine whether to include the P-Early-Media header in the SIP message of outgoing calls. The
P-Early-Media header contains the status of the early media stream. If the status indicates that the network is
blocking the early media stream, the phone plays the local ringback tone. Otherwise, the phone plays the early
media while waiting for the call to be connected.
Before you begin
Access the phone administration web page. See
Procedure
Step 1 Select Voice > Ext (n).
Step 2
In the SIP Settings section, set the P-Early-Media Support field as described in
Step 3 Click Submit All Changes.

Peer Firmware Sharing

Peer Firmware Sharing (PFS) is a firmware distribution model which allows a Cisco IP phone to find other
phones of the same model or series on the subnet and share updated firmware files when you need to upgrade
multiple phones all at the same time. PFS uses Cisco Peer-to-Peer-Distribution Protocol (CPPDP) which is a
Cisco proprietary protocol. With CPPDP, all the devices in the subnet form a peer-to-peer hierarchy, and then
copy the firmware or the other files from peer devices to the neighboring devices. To optimize firmware
upgrades, a root phone downloads the firmware image from the load server and then transfers the firmware
to other phones on the subnet using TCP connections.
Peer firmware sharing:
• Limits congestion on TFTP transfers to centralized remove load servers.
• Eliminates the need to manually control firmware upgrades.
• Reduces phone downtime during upgrades when large numbers of phones are reset simultaneously.
Note
• Peer firmware sharing does not function unless multiple phones are set to upgrade at the same time.
• When you set the Peer Firmware Sharing Log server to an IP address and port, the PFS specific logs are
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When a NOTIFY is sent with Event:resync, it initiates a resync on the phone. Example of an xml that
can contain the configurations to initiate the upgrade:
"Event:resync;profile="http://10.77.10.141/profile.xml
sent to that server as UDP messages. This setting must be done on each phone. You can then use the log
messages when troubleshooting issues related to PFS.
Access the Phone Web Page, on page
Phone Administration
92.
SIP Settings, on page 277.