Polycom® CMA™ System Overview
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•If the Polycom CMA system cannot find another bridge with the features
and capacity needed to support a conference, the conference fails to start.
The system does not attempt to modify the conference settings in any way.
Instead, the system sends an email to notify the conference organizer of
the failure.
•The system will chain bridge reassignments. This means that if the next
bridge to which the system assigns a conference is down at the time the
system tries to start the conference, the system will try to reassign the
conference again.
•If the bridge to which the system reassigns a conference has adhoc
conferences on it, the Polycom CMA system is unaware of those
conferences. The reassigned conference may fail to start if ad hoc
conferences are consuming resources the Polycom CMA system expected
to schedule. This is known behavior and is avoided by applying the best
practice of not using bridges for both scheduled and adhoc conferences.
Field Input Requirements
While every effort was made to internationalize the Polycom CMA system, not
all system fields accept Unicode entries. If you work in a language other than
English, be aware that the Polycom CMA system fields that accept only ASCII
characters are shaded a light yellow.
For information about specific field requirements, see “System Field Input
Requirements” on page 549.
Filter and Search a List
In the Polycom CMA system interface, information is often summarized in
lists or grids.
Lists that include many items may have filters or searchable fields, which
allow you to view a subset of items or search for a specific entry. The available
filtering options depend on the type of information in the list. For example in
the conference list:
•If you select Custom Date as the filter, a calendar filter field appears
•If you select Ongoing Plus as the filter, an attribute option appears. You
can select the attribute Conference Name and enter all or part of the
conference name into the associated text field.
In gene ral, m ost tex t filt er fiel ds are ASCII only and the Polycom CMA system
search function is a case-insensitive, substring search. That means when you
enter a search string, the Polycom CMA system looks for that string whereever
it occurs (beginning, middle, or end) in the word or number.