Polycom 3725-77601-001H manual Scheduled Provisioning, Profile Order and Priority

Endpoint Management Overview

Profile Order and Priority

Automatic provisioning profiles are associated with groups, but what about those users who belong to more than one group—what determines their experience? When you add new profiles, you assign a Profile Order. The Profile Order determines which provisioning profile takes priority.

Consider the following example:

•Jason Smith is part of the Support group and also part of the Executive group.

•The Support group is assigned an automatic provisioning profile named Low-Bandwidth, which allows a maximum speed for receiving calls of 128kbps.

•The Executive group is assigned an automatic provisioning profile called High-Bandwidth, which allows a maximum speed for receiving calls of 1920kbps

•The Low-Bandwidth profile is assigned a profile order of 1, while the High-Bandwith profile is assigned a profile order of 2.

In this example, Jason’s endpoint is provisioned with the Low-Bandwidth provisioning profile, because it has the higher priority.

So when you add provisioning profiles, you may want to assign provisioning profiles with more robust privileges a higher priority than those providing less privileges.

Scheduled Provisioning

Scheduled provisioning is enabled at the CMA system. To schedule an endpoint for provisioning, the CMA system must already have a scheduled provisioning profile created for the endpoint.

How Scheduled Provisioning Works

In this standard management mode, administrators with System Setup permissions can schedule provisioning for one endpoint or a group of endpoints; and they can schedule provisioning to occur immediately or for a date and time in the future. The provisioning data is sent in XML format over a secure HTTPS connection.

Scheduled provisioning is available for these endpoint types:

•ViewStation endpoints

•ViewStation FX & EX endpoints

•V and VSX Series endpoints

•Selected TANDBERG endpoints—TANDBERG 150, 990, 880, and 770 endpoints

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