Polycom 7000 manual Set Up MCUs

Polycom RealPresence DMA System Initial Configuration Summary

6Obtain and install a security certificate from a trusted certificate authority. See Security Certificates Overview and Certificate Procedures.

7Configure as needed various login policy settings (see Login Policy Settings) and optionally, a management access whitelist (see Access Policy Settings).

8Document your current configuration for comparison in the future. We recommend saving screen captures of all the configuration pages.

9Manually create a backup, download it, and store it in a safe place. See Backing Up and Restoring.

Set Up MCUs

Note: MCUs and RealPresence DMA system interaction

The Polycom RealPresence DMA system can interact with MCUs, or media servers, in either or both of the following two ways:

•MCUs may be made available to system’s Conference Manager to manage for multi-point conferencing (hosting virtual meeting rooms, or VMRs).

•MCUs may be registered with the system’s Call Server as standalone MCUs and/or gateways. This configuration summary assumes you want to do both.

Make sure your MCUs are configured to accept encrypted (HTTPS) management connections (required for maximum or high security mode).

Make sure that each MCU is in a site belonging to a territory for which the Polycom RealPresence DMA system is responsible. If you’re deploying a supercluster (see Configure the Call Server and Optionally Create a Supercluster and About Superclustering), make sure that each territory has a primary and backup cluster assigned to it. If the primary cluster becomes unavailable, the MCUs registered to it can re-register to the backup.

If you’re deploying a supercluster, verify that you’ve enabled the hosting of conference rooms in the right territories and assigned clusters to those territories. See Configure the Call Server and Optionally Create a Supercluster.

Standalone MCUs can register themselves to the Polycom RealPresence DMA system’s Call Server. To make an MCU available as a conferencing resource, either add it to the appropriate Polycom RealPresence DMA cluster’s Conference Manager manually or, if it’s already registered with the Call Server, edit its entry to enable it for conference rooms and provide the additional configuration information required. See MCU Management.

You must organize MCUs configured as conferencing resources into one or more MCU pools (logical groupings of media servers). Then, you can define one or more MCU pool orders that specify the order of preference in which MCU pools are used.

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