A locked conference is one where new participants cannot dial in and you cannot start to stream the conference. Existing participants and streaming viewers will maintain their connection to the conference. If a conference is locked, an icon will indicate this on the auto attendant. The auto attendant will also display the text: 'This conference is locked'.

Note that participants that are pre-configured via the API will be able to dial in to the conference even if it is locked. This allows conferences to be restricted to specific participants (known as whitelisting).

Admin users and the conference owner can lock and unlock a conference. The conference will be automatically unlocked by the MCU when the final participant leaves.

When a conference is locked, admin users and the conference owner will still be able to connect new endpoints and disconnect participants.

To lock a conference:

1.

Go to

and click on the name of the conference you want to lock. The Conference's Participant

 

List displays.

 

2.

Click the

button in the top right-hand corner of the page.

Refer to the table below for details about the active participant list, which you can modify in the following ways:

You can end the conference, forcing all participants (including unicast streaming viewers) to be dropped, by

clicking.

For conferences that are "scheduled" rather than "ad hoc", ending the conference in this way causes any configured repetition to be cancelled. The ended conference would move from the "Scheduled conferences" list to the "Completed conferences" list. The configured duration of a completed conference reflects the actual duration of the conference rather than its original configured duration. For example, if a conference was scheduled to run from 09:00 until 10:00 (one hour) and the conference ended at 09:25, the configured duration would be changed to 25 minutes.

You can add a new H.323 or SIP video conferencing endpoint to the conference (either creating a new

endpoint or by choosing an existing one) by clicking . See Adding participants.

You can add a new VNC endpoint to the conference (either by creating a new endpoint or by choosing an

existing one) by clicking

. See Adding participants.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Indicates whether the participant's endpoint is an

H.323, SIP, or VNC endpoint.

Displays the name of the endpoint.

The following may also be displayed:

If the participant has been resolved to a particular

User names only display if the participant list is

being viewed by an administrator, because only

configured user (for instance by matching the

administrators have access to the configured user

participant's E.164 phone number against a

database.

configured value), then the appropriate user id

 

will be shown here.

 

 

 

 

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