Polycom 8 manual Monitoring an On Going Conference

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Monitoring an On Going Conference

The Meeting Director module is available only if you have purchased and installed the MGC WebCommander Professional or MGC WebCommander Meeting Director software and if you have access rights to Meeting Director module. The access rights are defined in the MGC Web Server Manager - Permissions. For more details, see the MGC Web Server Manager User’s Guide, Chapter 4.

An On Going conference is a conference that is started immediately or when the Calender’s scheduled reservation date and time is reached. An On Going conference can be invoked in one of the following ways:

•Started immediately from New Meeting definition

•Started immediately from the Reservation Templates

•The scheduled starting date and time of a Calender Reservation is set to the current date and time (for more details, see Chapter 6, “Reservation Calendar” )

You can monitor conferences and perform various operations while conferences are running.

Monitoring may be done at the conference level or at the participant level. Monitoring involves viewing the status of On Going conferences and the status of their participants. For example, you can terminate a conference before its scheduled ending or you can extend its duration. Alternatively, you can disconnect an individual participant while the conference is in progress, or temporarily mute transmission to and from a site so that the other participants can hold a private discussion. You can connect dial-out participants during the conference and add a new participant while the conference is in session.

Operations may also be performed during the conference. Different operations may be performed when managing an IVR-enabled conference (Audio Only and video) or a standard conference. Additional operations are available for conferences running on Video+ cards.

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