Polycom 3725-77601-001H manual Groups, Enterprise Users

Polycom CMA System Operations Guide

You should associate local users with one or more roles and associate them with one or more endpoints. Alternatively, you can associate local users with roles by associating them with local groups.

If your company has implemented the Areas feature, you can also associate local users with areas for which you are an administrator. For more information about areas, see “Area Overview and Operations” on page 347.

Enterprise Users

When the CMA system is integrated with an enterprise directory, the CMA system manages only the following pieces of an enterprise users’ information: the endpoints, roles, alert profiles, and areas assigned to them. The remaining information is pulled from the enterprise directory.

Notes

•Currently, the CMA system supports only a Microsoft Active Directory implementation of an LDAP directory.

•The CMA system displays a user’s City, Title, and Department to help distinguish between users with the same name.

When the CMA system is integrated with an enterprise directory, users imported into the system through the enterprise directory are by default added to the system without a role. This default set up allows users to log into the CMA system with their enterprise user IDs and passwords. They can then be scheduled into conferences and call into conferences. However, the system cannot call out to them until they are associated with endpoints.

To be fully functional, you must associate enterprise users with one or more roles to control their access to system functions and associate them with one or more endpoints. Alternatively, you can associate enterprise users with roles by associating them with local or enterprise groups.

If your company has implemented the Areas feature, you can also associate enterprise users with areas for which you are an administrator. For more information about areas, see “Area Overview and Operations” on page 347.

If you want the CMA system to, by default, automatically assign enterprise users the basic Scheduler role, you must change the appropriate system Security Settings. See “Give Enterprise Users Default Scheduler Role” on page 455.

Groups

Groups provide a more efficient and consistent use of the CMA system, because they allow you to assign roles and provisioning profiles to sets of users rather than to individual users.

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