Chapter 5 - Administrator’s Tasks
Conference Access Authentication Request using WebCommander as the External Database Application
An additional security measure of verifying the conference entry password can be added to the Ad Hoc conference initiation. Which mean participants with valid passwords can connect to the conference.
Conference access authentication can be independent of Ad Hoc conferencing (conference initiation authentication). In this case each participant’s connection to a conference is validated by the WebCommander server.
1.If the conference is started using the Ad Hoc conferencing mechanism, follow steps 1 to 7 of the Ad Hoc Conferencing using WebCommander Server as the External Database Application for Conference Initiation Authentication flow.
2.The On Going conference is assigned an IVR Service, which is configured to access an External database application for conference Entry Password authentication with the appropriate Entry Password request messages. When the participant is moved from the Entry Queue to the conference IVR queue, the participant is prompted for the conference Entry Password.
3.At this point, the participant can enter:
—His/her personal PIN Code, as defined in the Users table
—The conference password as defined for the conference either in the Profile, or by the parameters sent from the external database application to the MCU at the conference start time
4.The MCU sends the WebCommander server the conference numeric ID and the participant’s request for the conference entry password.
5.The WebCommander searches its database for a User matching the PIN code sent from the MCU.
—If a user matching the PIN code is found, the WebCommander checks whether the Conference Numeric ID sent from the MCU is identical to the Numeric ID defined for the User in the database. If yes, the participant is connected to the conference as the chairperson, replacing the participant temporary name with the name defined for the User in the database. In addition, the participant VIP state and Participant Information parameters are taken from the Users table and they overwrite these parameters in
