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Chapter 4 Installing Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3 in a Load Balancing Configuration

About Installing Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3 in a Load Balancing Configuration for

•New Meeting scheduling page

•Meeting Details pages

•Account Basics page

If a meeting is scheduled with video ports, the web-conferencing component is always held on the web server that has the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Video Integration installed. If that server goes down, the meeting rolls to another web server after 5 * Load Stats Poll Period (default equals 5 minutes). Since the second web server does not have the video integration installed, video functionality from the meeting console is disabled.

Video Meetings in Segmented Meeting Access Deployments

Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing supports two segmented meeting access deployments that allow web conferences to be held on both internal and external web servers. For more information on these deployments, see Chapter 3, “Installing Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing for a Segmented Meeting Access Configuration.”

In a Segmented Meeting Access-1 Server (SMA-1S) deployment, users with access to the video MCU can schedule both internal and external video meetings from the Web.

In a Segmented Meeting Access-2 Server (SMA-2S) deployment, the following rules apply:

If...	Then...
The video integration is deployed on an internal	Users can schedule internal video-enabled
web server.	meetings from the Web. Requests to schedule
	external video meetings are denied.
	When scheduling meetings, users must make sure
	the Allow Internet Access parameter on the New
	Meeting scheduling page is set to No. Setting it to
	Yes results in failed scheduling requests.
	System administrators and users with System
	Manager privileges can still schedule external
	video meetings from MeetingTime, but users may
	not see video features when attending from the
	Web.
The video integration is deployed on an external	Users can schedule external video meetings from
web server.	the Web. Requests to schedule internal video
	meetings are denied.

SQL Server Considerations

If you have multiple SQL Server databases, keep the following considerations in mind:

•If a video-enabled web server is in an internal cluster, all web servers connected to it must share the same SQL Server database.

•Web servers that do not conform to this configuration are not visible to the shared SQL Server database and are considered external to the video-enabled web server. Users attempting to schedule internal video meetings from these web servers are denied. They are, however, able to schedule external video meetings by setting the Allow Internet Access parameter to Yes.

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

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