Polycom 3725-77601-001H manual Area Overview and Operations, Areas Overview, How Areas Work

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Area Overview and Operations

This chapter describes how to set up areas in the Polycom® Converged

Management Application™ (CMA®) system. It includes these topics:

•Areas Overview

•View Areas

•Create Area Administrator Role

•Enable, Configure, and Customize Areas

•Add Areas

•Assign Devices to Areas

•Associate Users with Areas

•Change Area Association for Users

•Delete an Area

Areas Overview

Because the CMA system is a role-based system, users see only the pages and functions available to their roles and the permissions assigned to their user roles. However, users can perform those functions on any endpoint or network device defined to the system unless the Areas feature is implemented. By implementing areas, the CMA system administrator with System Setup permissions can limit access to endpoints and network devices to a specific set of administrators, operators, and schedulers.

How Areas Work

Areas add another dimension of permissions to scheduling, monitoring, and administration of endpoints and network devices. Besides the permissions enabled and disabled by roles and groups, the system now has a set of permissions enabled and disabled by areas.

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