eZuce is pleased to announce the General Availability of Uniteme 18.12.

Please read the release notes for 18.04 if you are not on 18.04 yet. A new upgrade method was introduced and it is important to follow these steps due to the MongoDB version upgrade.

This is a relatively small update as we’re continuing to work on CentOS 7 compatibility. We’ll have a separate 18.12.CentOS7 release coming out shortly after 18.12 becomes available.

The one major new feature in this release is the added ability of users to be able to set their language preference in UniteWeb.

Highlights

uniteme New Features:

• Allow user to choose language in UniteWeb

uniteme Improvements:

• Enhance gridfs-voicemail-cli tool to clean up voicemails across entire database

• In UniteWeb allow users to listed to MoH and Greeting files in GUI

• Upgraded fail2ban to 0.9.6

• Added support for newer Yealink phones (thanks IANT!)

Notes

1. Full Release Notes with installation information are located here: 18.12 Full Release Notes

2. The regular release of 18.12 has the ability to upgrade from earlier versions using the upgrade script used in 18.04.

Who Should Install?

This release is recommended for all 4.6 and later installations. If you have a patch installed to your system a new patch may be required. Please contact sa@ezuce.com if think you may have a patch applied as that may be replaced during the update.

eZuce's software products continuously progress through an Agile based development methodology that keeps feature functionality comprehensive and up-to-date in response to evolving market and customer requirements.

New software releases are made at a rate of two to four releases a year. Releases are numbered in the <yy>.<mm>.<uu> format where <yy> and <mm> designate the year and the month, respectively, in which a release is made generally available. Where applicable, <uu> corresponds to an update release relative to a general release on which fixes are made available.

In order to ensure service continuity and stability, customers may keep their production environments unchanged for up to a 6-month period during which release updates or patches are made available. After a release is more than 6-months old, eZuce customers would have to upgrade to the latest generally available release - inclusive of all fixes to date and any new patches.

Questions

If you have questions about updating you can email sa@ezuce.com or if you need assistance with the update contact your account manager or email sales@ezuce.com.

Software Release History

We're currently running on a 4-month release cycle.

• April release for 2018 is 18.04
• August release for 2018 is 18.08
• ...

Release Level History

• 14.04   - April 30, 2014
• 14.04.1 - June 01, 2014
• 14.04.2 - July 11, 2014
• 14.04.3 - October 24, 2014
• 14.10 - February 5, 2015
• 15.04 - April 29, 2015
• 15.05 - May 27, 2015
• 15.06 - June 30, 2015
• 15.08 - August 31, 2015
• 15.10.1 - December 9, 2015
• 15.12 - January 6, 2015
• 16.02 - March 14, 2016
• 16.04 - May 31, 2016
• 16.08 - October 6, 2016
• 16.12 - January 17, 2016
• 17.04 - April 18, 2017
• 17.08 - September 7, 2017
• 17.10 - December 7, 2017
• 18.04 - June 5, 2018
• 18.08 - September 7, 2018
• 18.12 - January 15, 2019

System Requirements

For a reasonably performing system, we recommend the following configuration.

Minimum hardware requirements

• Pentium 4 or Xeon processor @ 2.0 GHz Core 64bit or higher
• Minimum 8 GB of RAM with sufficient swap space
• 80 GB disk (75 users depending on usage patterns)

Notes:

• uniteme supports an unlimited number of voicemail boxes, the total number of hours of recorded messages is determined by the size of the hard-disk. As a rule, for every minute of recorded messages, you will need 1 MB of disk space (About 3 hours per 10 GB of disk space).

Operating System

CentOS/RHEL 6 x86_64 with latest updates is required.

Devices

Phones

• Polycom VVX Devices with firmware 5.9.1 (split) are recommended for new installations
• Polycom SoundPoint IP Devices should run firmware 4.0.14 (split)

Gateways

• AudioCodes Gateways are recommended for PSTN connectivity

SBCs

• Frafos, Sangoma, Acme Packet and Ingate SBC's are recommended for SIP Trunking and Remote Worker connectivity (commonly referred to as sipXbridge and MediaRelay services respectively).
• NOTE: The eZuce uniteme - "Use built-in SIP Trunk SBC" found in Gateway Details for use with Trunking or Remote Worker solutions should be used only for lab purposes. Additionally, sipXbridge does not work in an HA environment.

Documentation

Technical Reference Manuals, User Guides, Reach Reference Manuals, and other technical and user information can be found under the following link: Documentation Page

Installation and Upgrade Notes

Special MongoDB note

Please be aware of these Mongodb requirements http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/ulimit/ Note: Both the “hard” and the “soft” ulimit affect MongoDB’s performance. The “hard” ulimit refers to the maximum number of processes that a user can have active at any time. This is the ceiling: no non-root process can increase the “hard” ulimit. In contrast, the “soft” ulimit is the limit that is actually enforced for a session or process, but any process can increase it up to “hard” ulimit maximum.Every deployment may have unique requirements and settings; however, the following thresholds and settings are particularly important for mongod and mongos deployments:

ulimit –a
-f (file size): unlimited
-t (cpu time): unlimited
-v (virtual memory): unlimited
-n (open files): 64000
-m (memory size): unlimited
-u (processes/threads): 32000

Always remember to restart your mongod and mongos instances after changing the ulimit settings to make sure that the settings change takes effect.If you limit virtual or resident memory size on a system running MongoDB the operating system will refuse to honor additional allocation requests. After every install/upgrade please check that "cat /proc/$pid_of_mongo/limits" have the recommended value of 655350. To make this value permanent you need to create this file /etc/security/limits.d/99-mongodb-nproc.conf and add the following lines:

mongodb soft nproc 64000

mongodb hard nproc 64000

mongodb soft nofile 64000

mongodb hard nofile 64000

Special Patch Note

If you have a patch installed to your system a new patch may be required. Please contact sa@ezuce.com if think you may have a patch applied as that may be replaced during the update.

Installing from ISO image

Download uniteme ISO

Download the ISO image corresponding to your hardware and write the image to a DVD.

• The ISO files are available here: https://download.ezuce.com/openuc/ISO/
• You will need a valid ezuce.com user ID to login and download.
• We recommend the 64 bit installation in most cases. This ISO file name ends in x86_64.iso

Install uniteme

• Boot from the DVD created with the uniteme ISO image.
• Press Enter at the boot screen below to begin the uniteme installation.
• Select Manual Configuration under Enable IPv4 support and select OK.
• Set a static IPv4 address with the corresponding networking information and click OK.
• In certain situations, a warning of the use of indicated storage devices will be displayed.
• Select the language to be used during the installation.
• Select the keyboard layout to be used.
• Select the timezone to be used.
• Set a root password.
• Login to the system as root with the password you provided earlier and continue on to the Configure of uniteme.

Installing from Repository

uniteme can be installed using the following procedure

• Download and install CentOS 6.x minimal ISO
• Run the following command:

yum update && reboot

• Run the following commands to retrieve and run the eZuce uniteme installer:

curl https://download.ezuce.com/openuc-setup > /usr/bin/openuc-setup
chmod +x /usr/bin/openuc-setup
openuc-setup

This utility will guide you through the process of installing uniteme from the eZuce software repository.

Upgrade from previous versions

New Procedure

We will be utilizing an upgrade script to ensure upgrades proceed as intended and so that customers have the appropriate warnings and information before upgrading.

Warning!

Make sure you backup your system (configuration and voicemail at a minimum) prior to installation. You'll be upgrading mongodb to a new version!

Upgrade to 18.12 for Single Server systems for 17.10 and Older

Backup your System

Login to the Admin GUI and click on System -> Backup and at a minimum backup configuration and voicemail.

Do it now... before you go any further.

Download upgrade.sh

Login to the primary server as root.

Execute the following:

wget https://'USERNAME:PASSWORD'@download.ezuce.com/openuc/upgrade.sh

chmod +x upgrade.sh

Run upgrade.sh

Execute the upgrade script and answer 'Yes' to continue:

./upgrade.sh

The following will be displayed:

Uniteme 18.12 Upgrade Script

IMPORTANT: If this is a multi-server cluster, all databases except the Primary (which must be on the configuration server) should be removed.

IMPORTANT: You should run a system backup and copy your config and voicemail backups to another system. If the upgrade fails, you will need to build a new server and restore from backup.

IMPORTANT: Ensure that you have enough disk space available for a copy of the Mongo databases. (roughly your Config + Voicemail backups).

IMPORTANT: 18.08 does not have Reachme in it, if you use Reachme on this server or in the cluster, do not continue!

This script will do the following:

- Back up mongo config and dbs

- Stop mongo instance and remove old mongo files

- Change 17.10 occurrences in /etc/yum.repos.d with 18.12

- Perform yum update and then reboot the machine

On sipxconfig service startup following steps are taken (in case there is a backup still on the disk):

- Restore mongo config and dbs, then remove from disk

- Reboot machine

For other cluster servers:

- Run same script

- Re-add databases that were removed.

Continue? (you must enter Yes or No as shown and press Enter):

Enter 'Yes' and press Enter to continue. The system will reboot a couple of times as part of the process.

Upgrade to 18.12 for Multi-Server Clusters with Multiple Database Servers for 17.10 and Older

Backup your System

Login to the Admin GUI and click on System -> Backup and at a minimum backup configuration and voicemail.

Do it now... before you go any further.

Remove All Secondary Databases from Cluster Nodes

From the Admin UI remove databases from all nodes except for the primary node. Click on System -> Databases do accomplish this.

Proceed as with Single Server for Primary

Proceed as above with the 'Download upgrade.sh' section and then the 'Run upgrade.sh' section.

Secondary Servers in Cluster

After the Primary Server has completed, repeat for each of the Secondary Servers in the cluster until all are completed. 

Add Database Nodes

After the secondary nodes are complete and done with their reboots, log in to the Admin UI and add back the database nodes that were removed.

Send Server Profiles

Login to web interface as superadmin.

Navigate to System -> Servers page. Place checkmark next to server names and click 'Send Profiles'.

SEC Service Upgrade Note

When upgrading uniteme from openUC 4.6 Update 11 or 14.4.3 to 15.06 follow these steps to ensure the SEC service is correctly running:

• 1. Upgrade from 4.6 Update 11 or 14.4.3 to 15.06.
• 2. After the upgrade is complete, perform the usual restart.
• 3. Once possible, connect via CLI and monitor processes using top. Notice that the SEC process is using a lot of CPU memory.
• 4. Perform another restart OR restart only the Sipxlogwatcher service.

Modified Files Upgrade Note

If you have manually modified any system related files or some files are not as yum would expect them to be, the yum update process may not overwrite them. It will instead create 'rpmnew' or 'rpmsave' files and not overwrite the files. The administrator may have previously modified the files knowingly or as part of a patch supplied by TAC.

To check your upgrade.log and search for *.rpmnew *.rpmsave on your system check the upgrade log:

You will be responsible for merging any changes from the old file to the new or contacting Technical Support if you require assistance.

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