Resource Management System Integration Integrations with Other Systems
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Integrating with a resource management system (either a Polycom
RealPresence Resource Manager system or a Polycom CMA system) provides
the Polycom DMA system with:
•All site topology information configured in the RealPresence Resource
Manager or CMA system.
•All user-to-device associations configured in the RealPresence Resource
Manager or CMA system.
If you have a Polycom RealPresence Resource Manager or CMA system,
integrating with it allows you to configure site topology and user-to-device
associations in one place instead of two, ensuring consistency.
If you don’t have a Polycom RealPresence Resource Manager or CMA system
(or for some reason don’t want to integrate with it), both kinds of information
can be manually configured on the Polycom DMA system.
While the Polycom DMA system is integrated with the Polycom RealPresence
Resource Manager or CMA system, site topology and user-to-device
association may only be configured on the Polycom RealPresence Resource
Manager or CMA system. If the integration is terminated, the Polycom DMA
system retains the information last obtained from the RealPresence Resource
Manager or CMA system, but it becomes editable.
The Polycom DMA system uses site topology information for a variety of
purposes, including cascading of conferences, bandwidth management, and
Session Border Controller selection. See “Add Conference Template Dialog
Box” on page 184 and “About the Call Server Capabilities” on page220.
The Polycom DMA system uses user-to-device association to assign classes of
service to endpoints based on the user they belong to. See “Associate User
Dialog Box” on page89.
Your DNS servers must be able to resolve the Polycom DMA system’s FQDN
to its virtual IP address. See “Add Required DNS Records for the Polycom
DMA System” on page22.
Note
A RealPresence Resource Manager system (but not a CMA system) can be
integrated with (connected to) the DMA system. This enables it to use the DMA
system’s RealPresence Platform API to set up and monitor scheduled and preset
dial-out (anytime) conferences using the DMA system’s resources (see
“RealPresence Platform API” on page2).
When you integrate a RealPresence Resource Manager system with the DMA
system (from its management interface), the DMA system is automatically
integrated back to the RealPresence Resource Manager system (the integration
described here).