Appendix D - Ad Hoc Conferencing and External Database Authentication
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Ad Hoc Conference Initiation without Authentication
To enable this workflow, the following components must be defined in the system:
An Entry Queue IVR Service with the appropriate audio file requesting the Conference ID
An Ad Hoc-enabled Entry Queue with an assigned Profile
Ad Hoc Conferencing with Authentication
The MCU can work with an external database application to validate the participant’s right to start a new
conference. The external database contains a list of participants, with their assigned parameters. The
conference ID entered by the participant is compared against the database. If the system finds a match, the
participant is granted the permission to start a new conference.
To work with an external database application to validate the participant’s right to start a new conference,
the Entry Queue IVR Service must be configured to use the external database application for authentication.
In the external database application, you must define all participants (users) with rights to start a new
conference using Ad Hoc conferencing. For each user defined in the database, you enter the conference
ID, Conference Password (optional) and Chairperson Password (when applicable), billing code, Conference
general information (corresponding to the User Defined 1 field in the Profile properties) and user’s PIN code.
The same user definitions can be used for conference access authentication, that is, to determine who can
join the conference as a participant and who as a chairperson.

Entry Queue Level - Conference Initiation Validation with an External

Database Application

Starting a new conference with external database application validation entails the following steps: