Mitel MiContact Center Enterprise Plugin v201.5.1 - Release Notes

Mitel MiContact Center Enterprise Plugin v201.5.1 - Release Notes

About Mitel MiContact Center Enterprise Plugin

Mitel MiContact Center Enterprise Plugin provides protection and proactively monitors the Mitel MiContact Center Enterprise environment’s configuration data, services, and application data files.

Supported Versions and Platforms

  • MiContact Center Enterprise 9.6
    • on Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 2016, Windows 2019, Windows 2022 (where compatible)
    • using one of the following Databases either local or remote (where compatible)
      • SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2014, SQL Server 2016, 2017, 2019 (where compatible)

What's new

  1. support for MiContact Center Enterprise 9.6 system
    1. Core Services, License Manager, Network Operations Server, SMS Gateway Services, IIS Hosted Web Services*, SQL Database Server**, CTI Server*** 
Notes: 
* IIS Server related services used by Mitel MiContact Center Enterprise are protected by dedicated Neverfail IISServer plugin 
** SQL Server related services used by Mitel MiContact Center Enterprise are protected by dedicated Neverfail SQL Server plugin
*** CTI services are protected. CTI processes protection requires additional post-install configuration (contact Neverfail Pro-Services for guidance)

Discovery | Control | Monitoring

Mitel MiContact Center Enterprise Plugin discovery, control, monitoring and replication consists of the following:

  • Service Availability Control and Monitoring
  • Application Discovery and Monitoring 

Service Availability Control and Monitoring

Neverfail Engine monitors services specified by the plugins to ensure application availability. In the event that a specified service stops or fails, Neverfail Engine can take up to three pre-configured actions to remedy the issue.  The user may configure these reactions via the Continuity Engine Management Service User Interface.

When the plugin is installed, it scans all services to see if they are in the automatic or the started state. When the plugin is installed, all protected services will be set to manual (unless otherwise stated).

List of all Mitel MiContact Center Enterprise services protected by this plugin:

  1. EricssonLicenseManager
  2. CCAgent
  3. CCArchive
  4. CCBroker
  5. CCCallControl
  6. CCCampaign
  7. CCChat
  8. CCConfiguration
  9. CCConfigurationWcf
  10. CCDBMT
  11. CCEmail
  12. CCEvent
  13. CCNetworkMonitor
  14. CCOpenMedia
  15. CCReport
  16. CCRouter
  17. CCScheduler
  18. CCSolidusAgent
  19. CCUpdater
  20. Mitel SM Admin Service
  21. Mitel SM Configuration Service
  22. Mitel SM Logging Service
  23. Mitel SM Utility Service
  24. Daemon
  25. CCNDBS
  26. Mitel SMS Gateway Service
  27. Mitel SMS Gateway Configuration Service

IIS and SQL database instances protection 

  1. Microsoft SQL Server databases is protected by separate/dedicated plugin solution: – SQLServer Plugin.
  2. Microsoft IIS Server is protected by separate/dedicated plugin solution: – IISServer Plugin.

Application Discovery and Monitoring 

MiContact Center Enterprise Plugin automatically discovers the application's installed database instances, configuration files, registries and data storage paths, assuring protection and real-time replication for both application’s discovered data and detected services. The application protected items changes are dynamically discovered and applied through a set of dedicated tasks executed periodically.

Tasks - The following 'Tasks' are installed by Mitel MiContact Center Enterprise Plugin:
  • Periodic
    • Protected Services Discovery
    • File Filter Discovery
    • Registry Filter Discovery

To configure/modify Periodic 'Tasks', follow the steps below:

  1. Select the desired 'Task'.
  2. Click on the Edit button at the top of the 'Tasks' pane.
  3. Configure/modify the 'Interval' field.

Note: 'Interval' is the only field available for configuration/modification and is measured in seconds.

     4. Click OK to save the changes.

Note: This dialog is also used to Enable/Disable the selected 'Task'. 

Install/Uninstall the Plugin

Recommended/Automated - Install Plugin Via Continuity Engine Management Service (EMS)

Procedure:

  1. Install the latest GA version of Continuity Engine Management Service.
  2. Login to EMS WebUI then install Continuity Engine on the target Mitel MiContact Center Enterprise servers

Manual - Install Plugin Via the Neverfail Advanced Management Client

The  Mitel MiContact Center Enterprise Plugin can be installed either via the Neverfail CE deployment process or by using Application -> Plugins in the Neverfail Advanced Management Client using the procedure below. Neverfail recommends that for initial deployments of  Mitel MiContact Center Enterprise Plugin, installation should be performed using Engine Management Service.

Procedure:

  1. Unzip the Mitel MiContact Center Enterprise Plugin to the desired location.
  2. Launch the Neverfail Advanced Management Client.
  3. Navigate to Application -> Plugins .
  4. Click on the Install 
  5. Click the Browse button and navigate to the location of the <plugin name>.dll 
  6. Click OK to complete the installation.
  7. Repeat this process for each individual plugin.
To remove/uninstall the Mitel MiContact Center Enterprise Plugin, follow the steps below:
  1. Launch the Neverfail Advanced Management Client.
  2. Navigate to Application -> Plugins .
  3. Select the desired plugin to be removed/uninstalled.
  4. Click on the Uninstall button in the 'Plugins' pane.
  5. When the plugin is uninstalled, the files are not removed. This is by design for future functionality and therefore the following workaround is provided:
    1. Copy the contents of the r2\plugins\<sponsor>\<version> folder to a different location (e.g. C:\temp).
    2. Delete the contents of the r2\plugins\<sponsor>\<version> 
    3. To reinstall the plugin, when prompted for the location of the plugin files, navigate to the new folder location (e.g. C:\temp).
Note: As an alternative, reinstallation can be accomplished by using the downloaded files from the original download location after removing the plugin.

Applies To

Mitel MiContact Center Enterprise Plugin 201.5.1