Latest MGC Version Number

[Anonymous]

I'm getting ready to upgrade CMA.

In the System Interoperability on the Release Notes, it specifies that MGC must be upgraded to 9.0.4.3. Currently, our MGC is on version 9.0.4.1. Oddly, the latest version that can be downloaded seems to be 9.0.4.003.

Is 9.0.4.3 indeed the latest version, or is 9.0.4.1 sufficient?

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Rev,

9.0.4.003 is 9.0.4.3. The extra zeroes are added by engineers who feel lonely, so they like to have zeroes around to keep them company.

As for whether 9.0.4.1 will work with the CMA, that depends on what you use the CMA and MGC for. The reason we list interop version of MGC software in the CMA release notes is that the CMA uses API commands to schedule conferences on MGC and RMX bridges.

If the versions don't match, some of the API commands do not work. If you do any conference scheduling from the CMA, then it would be in your best interest to upgrade the MGC to 9.0.4 as that is the version of API that the CMA was written to work with. However, if you do not schedule your bridge from the CMA, then basic functionality will not be impacted by the version mismatch.

We still recommend that you keep your UC Infrastructure equipment on compatible versions of software, but gatekeeper functionality is based on the ITU-T specs, so the compatibility issues are usually to do with the monitoring and scheduling side of things.