DMA OperationsGuide MCU Pools
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You can use various criteria for organizing MCUs into pools, depending on
how you want the MCU resources allocated for conferencing. For instance:
•You could put all MCUs in a specific site or domain into a pool. Then,
assign a pool order to all users in that site or domain (via group
membership) ensuring that their conferences are preferentially routed to
MCUs in that pool.
•You could put one or more MCUs into a pool to be used only by
executives, and put that pool into a pool order associated only with those
executives’ conference rooms.
•You could put MCUs with special capabilities into a pool, and put that
pool into a pool order associated only with custom conference rooms
requiring those capabilities.
The following table describes the fields in the list.
The Actions list associated with the MCU Pools list contains the items in the
following table.
Note
If you have a Polycom RealPresence Resource Manager system that uses the
DMA system API to schedule conferences on the DMA system’s conferencing
resources (MCU pools), you must create MCU pools and pool orders specifically for
the use of the RealPresence Resource Manager system. The pool orders should be
named in such a way that:
•They appear at the top of the pool order list presented in the RealPresence
Resource Manager system.
•Users of that system will understand that they should choose one of those pool
orders.
If the RealPresence Resource Manager system is also going to be used to directly
schedule conferences on MCUs, those MCUs should not be part of the
conferencing resources (MCU pools) available to the DMA system.
Note
MCU pools and pool orders are not used to select an ISDN gateway for simplified
gateway dialing. See “ISDN Gateway Selection Process” on page 133.
Table 6-7 Information in the MCU Pools list
Column Description
Name Name of the MCU pool.
Description Description of the pool, such as the geographic location
of the MCUs it contains.
MCUs The MCUs that are in the pool.