Polycom 3725-76302-001O manual Edit MCU Pool Order Dialog Box, MCU Selection Process

MCU Management

See also:

MCU Pool Orders on page 145

MCU Pool Order Procedures on page 150

Edit MCU Pool Order Dialog Box

Lets you edit an MCU pool order. The following table describes the fields in the dialog box.

Field	Description
Name	Name of the MCU pool order.
Description	Brief description of the pool order.
Available MCU pools	Lists the MCU pools available to the Polycom RealPresence DMA system.
Selected MCU pools	Lists the pools included in the pool order in their priority order. The left/right
	arrow buttons move pools from one list to the other. The up/down arrow
	buttons change the priority rank of the selected pool.
Fall back to any available MCU	Indicates whether this pool order is set to fall back to any available MCU if
	there are no available MCUs in its pools.

See also:

MCU Pool Orders on page 145

MCU Pool Order Procedures on page 150

MCU Selection Process

Note: MCUs and ISDN Gateway Selection

MCU pools and pool orders are not used to select an ISDN gateway for simplified gateway dialing. See ISDN Gateway Selection Process on page 139.

The process below can be affected by the mechanisms that the system uses for detecting and handling MCU availability and reliability issues. See MCU Availability and Reliability Tracking on page 148.

The Polycom RealPresence DMA system chooses an MCU for a user’s conference by applying the following rules in order:

1Select the MCU pool order:

a Use the pool order directly assigned to the user’s conference room.

b If none, use the highest priority pool order associated with any group to which the user belongs. c If none, use the system default.

2Select the first MCU pool in the MCU pool order.

3Select the best MCU in the MCU pool, based on how well their capabilities fulfill the user’s needs in the following respects:

MCU has RealPresence Collaboration Server or RMX profile required by user’s conference template.

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