Cisco Systems Conference Phone manual About the SMA-2S Configuration

Chapter 3 Installing Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing for a Segmented Meeting Access Configuration

About Segmented Meeting Access

1	Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server		2	Internal DNS server.
	system.
3	Cisco Unified MeetingPlace web server.		4	Internal user.
	Note	The web server must have two IP		• Internal users enter internal meetings
		addresses.		through the internal website.
				• Internal users entering an external
				meeting are redirected to their meeting
				from the internal website.
5	External user.
	• External users access external meetings
		through the external website.
	• External users do not have access to
		internal meetings.

About the SMA-2S Configuration

Note For system requirements, see the “Segmented Meeting Access - 2 Server Requirements” section of the of the Release Notes for your release of Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing. New installations of Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3 require a Cisco MCS.

In the Segmented Meeting Access-2 Servers (SMA-2S) configuration, Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing is deployed on two separate web servers or two separate clusters of web servers. One is on the internal network, behind the firewall; the other is on another network segment, such as a DMZ. The internal server or cluster is only accessible from behind the firewall while the external server or cluster is accessible from inside or outside the firewall.

While internal users have access to the full-access Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing user interface, external users have access to an attend-only web page that only allows attendance to external meetings.

The SMA-2S configuration is the preferred and most secure deployment model if you want to provide external access to Cisco Unified MeetingPlace web conferences.

Note We highly recommend that you configure external web servers to use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). This provides optimum security and resolves proxy server issues that can prevent users from joining a web conference. For more information, see Chapter 6 in the Configuration Guide for Cisco

Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3.

Installation and Upgrade Guide for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3

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