Set Up Signaling Polycom® DMA™ System Initial Configuration Summary
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•Whether the RealPresence Platform Application Programming Interface
(API) is enabled. The API provides an API client application with
programmatic access to the Polycom DMA system (see “RealPresence
Platform API” on page3). In a supercluster, all clusters must have the
same API licensing status.
You should have received either one or two license numbers for each cluster,
depending on whether you ordered a single-server or two-server cluster.
You must obtain an activation key code for each server from the Polycom
Resource Center (PRC). You enter the server’s serial number and the license
number that you were given for that server, and the PRC generates an
activation key for that server. For a cluster, you repeat the process using the
other server’s serial number and its license number. Installing the activation
keys activates the licenses for your system.
To activate the system license, follow the procedure in “Licenses” on page70.
Set Up Signaling Signaling setup includes enabling H.323, SIP, or both, and optionally setting
the prefix for dialing into the system.
Note
An API license isn’t required in order for a Polycom RealPresence
Resource Manager system to access the API. It’s only needed for a client
application you or a third party develop.
Caution
An activation key is linked to a specific server’s serial number. For a two-server
cluster, you must generate the activation key for each server using that server’s
serial number.
Licensing will fail if you generate both activation keys from the same server serial
number.
Note
The addition of the Call Server and superclustering features to the Polycom DMA
system required significant changes to the signaling internals. One consequence of
these changes is that the Polycom DMA system can no longer register to an
external gatekeeper as an MCU. Instead, it can neighbor to an external gatekeeper
as another gatekeeper. As a result, if you’re upgrading from a version that didn’t
include the Call Server functionality or that operated in what was known as “legacy
signaling mode,” you need to reconfigure your external gatekeeper.