Provisioning

You can use Meeting Management to provision users and space templates on connected Meeting Servers.

You can access provisioning settings from the Servers page. For the cluster you want to set up provisioning for, you can click Set up provisioning to go to a page that lets you configure the provisioning settings.

What do we mean by provisioning users?

Provisioning users means setting up user accounts for everyone who you want to use the Cisco Meeting App or the Cisco Meeting Server web app. This is done by importing users from one or more connected LDAP servers and defining some basic settings, such as:

  • Which details should be used as username and display name
  • Whether they are assigned a PMP Plus (Personal Multiparty plus) license

  • Which types of spaces they can create

What is a space?

A space is a virtual meeting room that participants can dial into to have audio or video meetings. It may also serve as a chat room if chat is enabled on the Meeting Server. All members of a space have access to the space and see it in their app, similar to a shared meeting room where all members have a key and can enter the room when they want. Others can be invited in for a meeting by the members of the space.

For more information about what spaces are and how the apps work, see the Meeting App user guides and the visual "how to" guides. as well as the Important Information documents.

What is a space template?

A space template is a combination of pre-configured settings that can be used to create new spaces. The most basic settings are related to participants:

  • What participant roles exist in the space, and which permissions each role has

    For instance, some participants can have a host or leader role and have full permissions to add or remove people, start recording, mute others, etc, while others have guest or staff roles with limited permissions. You can also have spaces with just one role where all members have the same permissions.

  • Whether participant roles should be differentiated by their passcode, of if they should each have a unique URI and Meeting ID.

There are also settings that are related to the behavior of meetings held in the space, such as the default layout, whether meetings are automatically recorded, whether there is a participant limit, etc.

Provisioning steps

Setting up provisioning consists of setting up LDAP filters, defining space templates and a few other settings, and committing the changes.

  1. Before you start, get things ready.
  2. Connect the cluster to LDAP servers.
  3. Define which users to import.
  4. Optional: Create space templates that users can use to create spaces.
  5. Review and commit your settings.
  6. Start an LDAP sync to perform the provisioning.