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MCU Management

This chapter describes the Polycom® Distributed Media Application™ (DMA™) 7000 system’s MCU management tools and tasks:

MCUs

MCU Pools

MCU Pool Orders

MCUs

The MCUs page shows the MCUs, or media servers, known to the Polycom DMA system. In a superclustered system, this list encompasses all MCUs throughout the supercluster and is the same on all clusters in the supercluster. It includes:

MCUs that are available as a conferencing resource for the Polycom DMA system’s Conference Manager (enabled for conference rooms), but aren’t registered with the Call Server. Up to 64 MCUs can be enabled for conference rooms.

MCUs that are registered with the Polycom DMA system’s Call Server as standalone MCUs and/or ISDN gateways, but aren’t available to the Conference Manager as conferencing resources.

MCUs that are both registered with the Call Server and available to the Conference Manager as conferencing resources.

An MCU can appear in this list either because it registered with the Call Server or because it was manually added. If the MCU registered itself, it can be used as a standalone MCU. But in order for Conference Manager to use such an MCU as a conferencing resource, you must edit its entry to enable it for conference rooms and provide the additional configuration information required.

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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