Polycom 5.3 - Manuals

Polycom ® CMA ™ System Overview Polycom, Inc. 3 Scheduling Participants and Endpoints When you schedule conferences, you select the participants you wish to join the conference from your endpoint directory. Depending on your system configuration, your endpoint directory may be the enterprise LDAP di...

Polycom CMA System Web Scheduling Guide 4 Polycom, Inc. In some respects, a cascaded conference looks like a single conference, but it is actually two or more conferences on different bridges that are linked together. The link is created by a dial-out from one conference to a second conference via a...

Polycom ® CMA ™ System Overview Polycom, Inc. 5 • If the Polycom CMA system cannot find another bridge with the features and capacity needed to support a conference, the conference fails to start. The system does not attempt to modify the conference settings in any way. Instead, the system sends an ...

Polycom ® CMA ™ System Overview Polycom, Inc. 7 Change Password Local users of the Polycom CMA system must change their passwords every 90 days. Access rules for enterprise users is managed by Microsoft Active Directory. To change your system password 1 Click Settings in the top-right corner of the ...

Polycom, Inc. 9 2 Conference Scheduling Overview This chapter describes the scheduling and conference views, navigation, and commands of the Polycom CMA system. It includes these topics:• Conference Menu and Views — Conference Views—Future and Ongoing — Conference States — Context-Sensitive Conferen...

Conference Scheduling Overview Polycom, Inc. 11 Conference Views—Future and Ongoing When you log into the Polycom CMA system with Scheduler Permissions, you see the Conference and User menus and the Future view is displayed. You can also select the Ongoing view.The Conference list in both the Future...

Polycom CMA System Web Scheduling Guide 12 Polycom, Inc. Conference States Conferences may be in the following states. Conference Name The system- or scheduler-assigned name of the conference. By default, the system assigns a conference name and appends the day and date to that name. The scheduler c...

Conference Scheduling Overview Polycom, Inc. 13 Context-Sensitive Conference Commands Besides the constant Refresh and Add commands, the Actions section may include these context-sensitive commands depending on the type of conference selected. User Menu and Guest Book The Polycom CMA system User men...

Polycom CMA System Web Scheduling Guide 14 Polycom, Inc. The Guest Book has these fields. Context-Sensitive Guest Book Commands The Actions section of the Guest Book page may include these context-sensitive commands depending on the type of conference selected. Add a Guest to the System Guest Book T...

Conference Scheduling Overview Polycom, Inc. 17 Edit a Guest in the System Guest Book To edit a guest in the system Guest Book 1 Go to User > Guest Book and select the guest of interest. 2 Click Edit Guest. 3 Change the Guest Information section and endpoint information sections of the Add New Gu...

Polycom, Inc. 19 3 Conference Management Operations This chapter describes the Polycom ® Converged Management Application™ (CMA™) system conference management operations. It includes these topics:• Add/Schedule a Conference • Edit a Conference • Copy a Conference • Edit a Participant’s Settings • Ed...

Conference Management Operations Polycom, Inc. 23 12 If you have advanced scheduler permissions, now is the time to edit conference settings and make bridge selections. For more information, see “Advanced Scheduling Operations” on page 39. 13 To edit a participant’s dial settings, select the partici...

Conference Management Operations Polycom, Inc. 25 Copy a Conference Future, ongoing, or past conferences can be copied as a template for a future conference. To copy a conference 1 Go to the appropriate conference view. 2 Select the conference of interest and click Copy . 3 If you used a template ot...

Conference Management Operations Polycom, Inc. 27 Edit a Room’s Settings You can edit a room’s call settings for future scheduled conferences. The changes apply only to the selected conference. To edit a room’s settings 1 Go to Conference > Future. 2 To delete a past conference, select the approp...

Polycom CMA System Web Scheduling Guide 28 Polycom, Inc. View Scheduling Information for a Conference To view the scheduling information for a conference 1 To see the scheduling information for a future conference, go to Conference > Future. To see the scheduling information for an active confere...

Conference Management Operations Polycom, Inc. 29 Manage an Active Conference The Manage Conference page provides a detailed view of a single active conference and allows you to make some changes to your active conference. To manage an active conference 1 Go to Conference > Ongoing. 2 From the li...

Conference Management Operations Polycom, Inc. 31 Add Additional Participants to an Active Conference You can add additional participants to an active conference. These participants can come from your local directory, enterprise directory, or guest book. To add additional conference participants to ...

Conference Management Operations Polycom, Inc. 33 f Click OK.The participant’s name appears in the underlying New Conference Participants list. 6 To initiate the system dial out to new participants, select the participants of interest from the New Conference Participants list and click Connect New P...

Polycom CMA System Web Scheduling Guide 34 Polycom, Inc. 3 Select a participant from the Participants list.The selected participant’s video appears in the Conference Image section of the interface. 4 Click Shuffle to shuffle to the next participant’s video. Manage a Participant’s Endpoint During a C...

Conference Management Operations Polycom, Inc. 35 View a Participant’s Details During a Conference You can view details for a participant’s endpoint while it is in conference. To view a participant’s endpoint details 1 Go to Conference > Ongoing. 2 Select the conference of interest and click Mana...

Conference Management Operations Polycom, Inc. 37 Terminate an Active Conference To terminate an active conference 1 Go to Conference > Ongoing. 2 Select the conference of interest and click Terminate . 3 Click Terminate to confirm the termination. Delete a Conference You can delete future or pas...

Polycom, Inc. 39 4 Advanced Scheduling Operations This chapter describes how users with advanced scheduler permissions have more options when scheduling conferences using the Polycom ® Converged Management Application™ (CMA™) system. When scheduling conferences, users with advanced scheduler permiss...

Polycom CMA System Web Scheduling Guide 44 Polycom, Inc. 3 Continue adding or editing the conference, as described in “Conference Management Operations” on page 19. Select a Bridge for a Conference By default when you add a conference, the Polycom CMA system will automatically select a bridge for th...

Advanced Scheduling Operations Polycom, Inc. 45 Create a Cascaded Conference Across Multiple Bridges To create a cascaded conference across multiple bridges 1 When you’re adding or editing a conference, after you’ve made all of your other conference configuration choices, click Bridge Selection and ...

Polycom, Inc. 47 5 Conference and Participant Details This chapter lists the conference and participant detail fields for reference. It includes these sections:• Conference Details • Conference Features • Bridge (MCU) Features • Participants List • Participant Details • Participant Settings Conferen...

Conference and Participant Details Polycom, Inc. 49 Conference Features The Conference Features section has these fields. Audio Algorithm For a conference hosted on an MCU, the audio compression ratio of the conference data stream. Possible values are: • AUTO • G.711 • G.722 • Siren 7 (16 kbps) Sect...

Conference and Participant Details Polycom, Inc. 51 Participants List The Participants section has these fields. Meet Me per Conf Whether or not the a conference is a Meet Me conference, for which a dial-in number is assigned, so that undefined participants can connect to the conference Conference o...

Polycom CMA System Web Scheduling Guide 52 Polycom, Inc. Participant Details The Participant Details section has these fields. Section Description Call Info How the participant joined the call. Possible values include: • Video Dial-Out • Audio Dial-In@ <Address> • Video Dial-In@ <Address>...

Polycom CMA System Web Scheduling Guide 54 Polycom, Inc. Participant Settings The Participant Settings dialog box has these fields. If you select a Dial Option of Dial-Out for a participant without a managed endpoint, the Participant Settings dialog box has these additional fields. Section Descripti...

Index Polycom, Inc. 57 Index A active conference. See conferenceadding conferences 19 Adobe Flash Player 2 advanced conference settings editing 39 assigning a lecturer 22 a video chairperson 22 audio-only conference 20 , 24 available commands, list of 10 B bandwidth. See bit ratebit rate setting for...