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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.