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See also:
“Add MCU Dialog Box” on page137
“Edit MCU Dialog Box” on page142
“MCU Procedures” on page149
“MCU Pools” on page152
“MCU Pool Orders” on page156
Add MCU Dialog Box
Lets you add an MCU, gateway, or combination of the two to the pool of
devices available to the Polycom DMA system.
Note
In the recommended high security mode, the Polycom DMA system uses only
HTTPS for the conference control connection to MCUs, and you must configure
your MCUs to accept encrypted connections. We recommend doing so. When
unencrypted connections are used, the MCU login name and password are sent
unencrypted over the network.
The Polycom DMA system knows only what resources an MCU has currently
available. It can’t know what’s been scheduled for future use.
If you have a Polycom CMA system and want to use the same RMX MCU (v6.0 and
above) for both reservationless and scheduled conferences, determine how many
ports you want to set aside for scheduled conferences and designate those as ports
reserved for the CMA system. This feature is not available for Cisco Codian MCUs
or for use with a Polycom RealPresence Resource Manager system. The
RealPresence Resource Manager system must have exclusive use of any MCUs
on which it directly schedules conferences. Those MCUs should not be added to
the DMA system’s conferencing resources.
The Automatic Password Generation feature, introduced in RMX version 7.0.2, is
not compatible with the Polycom DMA system. On Polycom RMX MCUs to be used
with the Polycom DMA system, disable this feature by setting the system flags
NUMERIC_CONF_PASS_DEFAULT_LEN and
NUMERIC_CHAIR_PASS_DEFAULT_LEN both to 0 (zero).
Note
The Polycom DMA system supports the use of Cisco Codian 4200, 4500, and MSE
8000 series MCUs as part of the Conference Manager’s conferencing resource
pool, but their Media Port Reservation feature is not supported. This feature must
be set to Disabled on Cisco Codian MCUs in order to use them as part of the
Conference Manager’s conferencing resource pool.
The Polycom DMA system supports the use of Polycom MGC MCUs, but not as
part of the Conference Manager’s conferencing resource pool. They can register
with the Call Server as standalone MCUs and/or gateways.