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Polycom RealPresence DMA System Initial Configuration Summary
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6 Obtain and install a security certificate from a trusted certificate authority. See Security Certificates
Overview and Certificate Procedures.
7 Configure as needed various login policy settings (see Login Policy Settings) and optionally, a
management access whitelist (see Access Policy Settings).
8 Document your current configuration for comparison in the future. We recommend saving screen
captures of all the configuration pages.
9 Manually create a backup, download it, and store it in a safe place. See Backing Up and Restoring.
Set Up MCUs
Make sure your MCUs are configured to accept encrypted (HTTPS) management connections (required for
maximum or high security mode).
Make sure that each MCU is in a site belonging to a territory for which the Polycom RealPresence DMA
system is responsible. If you’re deploying a supercluster (see Configure the Call Server and Optionally
Create a Supercluster and About Superclustering), make sure that each territory has a primary and backup
cluster assigned to it. If the primary cluster becomes unavailable, the MCUs registered to it can re-register
to the backup.
If you’re deploying a supercluster, verify that you’ve enabled the hosting of conference rooms in the right
territories and assigned clusters to those territories. See Configure the Call Server and Optionally Create a
Supercluster.
Standalone MCUs can register themselves to the Polycom RealPresence DMA system’s Call Server. To
make an MCU available as a conferencing resource, either add it to the appropriate Polycom RealPresence
DMA cluster’s Conference Manager manually or, if it’s already registered with the Call Server, edit its entry
to enable it for conference rooms and provide the additional configuration information required. See MCU
Management.
You must organize MCUs configured as conferencing resources into one or more MCU pools (logical
groupings of media servers). Then, you can define one or more MCU pool orders that specify the order of
preference in which MCU pools are used.
Note: MCUs and RealPresence DMA system interaction
The Polycom RealPresence DMA system can interact with MCUs, or media servers, in either or both
of the following two ways:
• MCUs may be made available to system’s Conference Manager to manage for multi-point
conferencing (hosting virtual meeting rooms, or VMRs).
• MCUs may be registered with the system’s Call Server as standalone MCUs and/or gateways.
This configuration summary assumes you want to do both.