VQManager

New Features

• Support for H.323 protocol
• Concurrent calls reports
• Configuration wizard for easy set-up
• Voice Quality graphs enhanced with drill-down options
• Full support for Cisco CallManager 6.x environments
  

Enhancements

• SIP registration views enhanced to load pages faster
  

• Option to auto-end calls whose RTP flows stopped for 'x' duration
• Option to "unmonitor" calls with no signaling packets for 'x' duration
• User given the option to manually "unmonitor" stale active calls
• Option to delete stale active calls
• Proper processing of calls that originate from PSTN phones and terminating in SCCP Phones
• Displaying the reason for calls to be moved to the unmonitored state for better understanding
  

• Additional listing of Endpoints by their phone ID
• Better formating of Octets transfer in a call
  

• Licensing based on number of unique phone IDs discovered
• Option to import monitored phone IDs from CSV/TXT files
• Option to export the monitored Phone IDs as CSV
  

• New log-in screen
• Default Monitor tab view changed to "Summary Report" view
  

Bug Fixes

• Issue in scheduling the database clean up task has been fixed
• Support for parsing SIP URL with upper and lower case  
• Fixed the issue while configuring a MOS Trend based alarm profile with SNMP trap enabled
• Fixed the issue on entering duplicate email ids in a same threshold while creating an Alarm profile creation
• Issue while creating PNG images in Windows Vista machine has been fixed
• Fixed an issue in generating PDF/CSV files for endpoints containing special characters
  

Miscellaneous

• Option to create and send a packet capture from the VQManager web interface
• Changed the JAVA version bundled with VQManager to JRE 1.5.0._11
• System requirements: Linux distributions used needs standard C++ libraries (libstdc++) and GCC (4.0 or above) core libraries (libgcc)
  
  

Enhancements

• Enabling/Disabling of RTCP based QoS calculation, provided in Sniffer configuration page
• Support for all WinPCAP filters in the Sniffer configuration filter settings
• Performance enhancement in the Endpoint Summary page
• Option to listen for SIP messages in all ports, provided in Sniffer configuration page
• SIP URLs with '#' (hash) character are now parsed without problems
  

Issues fixed

• Issue in attaching latest data for consecutive Scheduled reports
• Data mismatch between the CSV and PDF export files
• Improved Delay and Jitter calculation to handle wrong packet sequences
• Stale active calls without QoS metrics are now moved to Unmonitored calls category
• SIP 3xx responses are now not categorized as failed calls
• Restore DB operation was not restoring the functions used by VQManager
• Fixed the issue in the ReinitializeDB operation
• Unwanted delete query operations in DB clean-up are now avoided for improved performance
• Fixed the issue in starting VQManager as a service in Windows Vista

New Edition

• VQManager Professional Edition released
  
  

New Features

• Support for Cisco Skinny protocol
• Windows 64-bit support
• Schedued export of Custom Reports
• CallFlow information is enhanced with the addition of raw SIP and Skinny packet information
  
  

Enhancements

Performance

• Call processing rate enhanced to cater to higher call traffic loads
• All client views are enhanced to load the pages faster

Calls Monitoring

• Controlling of Refresh rate for Active calls and Live Reports
• Configurable QoS parameters for Call Trend View graph

Endpoint details

• Resource Group Menu bar added in the Endpoint tab's Navigation bar
• Current Status of each Endpoint is not shown in the Endpoints summary list

Alarms

• Alarm categorization based on Severity

Reports

• Call Status based Custom Reports
• Removed Live Reports from the Reports tab

Administrator Operations

• Time Zone setting removed
• Automatic scheduled backup of data is removed

CDR Processing

• Auto-download of new CDR files from directories via FTP
• Support for PortaOne CDRs

Web Interface

• New Monitor page UI with Live & Summary split-up
• Live Reports View to get a snapshot of the current status of the network
• Alarm categorization based on Severity in Monitor Page
• Better representation of Voice Quality and Traffic monitor graphs
• Refresh Page now option
• Frequently Used Devices, Recent Calls, Recent Alarms and Top Talkers views are removed from the Monitor page
• Revamp of the Syslog server settings page
• Endpoint details are enhanced with a more in-depth information
• Revamp of the Quick Links section

New Features

Client Enhancements

• Status Code based search enabled in all call list views
• Initiator, Participant URLs and Minimum, Maximum & Average values of QoS metrics have been added as optional columns in all call list views
• Minimum, Maximum & Average values of QoS parameters are shown in all call details and endpoint details
• Provision for setting VQManager time zone based on user's time zone
• Enhanced pre-defined reports with addition of two new reports - Bandwidth Usage Report and Voice Quality Report
• Enhanced licensing policy with support for limiting the endpoints by 'Incoming and Outgoing SIP-URL'

Sniffer Enhancement

• Support for Network Address Translation (NAT)
• Support for call processing in multi-VLAN networks
• Processing of abbreviated SIP-Headers enabled

Alarms Enhancement

• Provision for filtering the time component into 'Business Hours' and 'Non-Business Hours' and generating alarms based on the same
• Provision for MOS Trend based alarm generation
• Enhanced SIP error code based alarm profile with provision to 'exclude' SIP code in 'like' condition

CDR Processing Enhancement

• Support for importing directories in CDR log import
• Support for parsing of the Swyx 6.0, Tekelec 5.6 CDRs

Other Major Features

• Support for efficient database administration with provision for scheduled Database backup & cleanup
• Support for running VQManager server as service in Linux