Servers

On the Servers page you can view and edit all your connected Meeting Server Call Bridges and Edge Nodes. You can also add new Call Bridges.

Once the deployment of a server is successful, you can view all the successfully configured servers in Configured Servers tab. The servers with failed or pending deployment status will be displayed in Partial Configured Servers tab.

You can edit or remove details for a cluster, such as whether you want to disable meeting management. For each cluster, you can set up provisioning of users and create space templates, you can associate the cluster with TMS to see upcoming meetings in Meeting Management. If you or another user has already used Meeting Management to set up provisioning, but did not commit the changes, you will see a notification banner for the cluster with a link that sends you to the Provisioning page, Review and commit tab for the cluster.

Your Meeting Management connects to Meeting Servers via the Call Bridge API. If you did not set up an API user account on each Call Bridge for your Meeting Management, please do that before you continue. For instructions, see "Accessing the API" in Cisco Meeting Server API Reference guide. You can find it on the Programming Guides page on cisco.com.

Also, if your CDR receiver address is not set correctly your Meeting Management cannot receive all the relevant information about active meetings, which you need if you enable the meeting management functionality.

To add a Call Bridge or Edge Node:

1. On the Servers page, click Add Server.

2. Choose one of the following:

   1. Add Configured Server:

   2. Configure New Server:

3. Click Ok.

Add Configured Server

You can add a Call Bridge Server that is already configured for managing licensing and other services or add an existing Meeting Server Edge Node.

If you chose Add Server and add an existing Meeting Server Call Bridge or Edge Node Server, follow the steps in this section. Enter the information for Cisco Meeting Server connection settings:

1. In the Server address field, enter the IP address or FQDN (fully qualified domain name) for your Call Bridge or Edge Node Server.

   This is the same as your Web Admin Interface address.

   Note: If you type in IPv6 addresses, use square brackets.

2. In the Port field, enter the port number for your Call Bridge or Edge Node Server.

   Note: If you leave this field empty, Meeting Management will use port 443.

3. Enter the MMP administrator Username and Password to add the Call Bridge or Edge Node Server.

   Note: For security and auditing reasons, we strongly recommend that you use a dedicated administrator account for Meeting Management.

4. Enter a Display name.

   You can choose any display name you want. Keep in mind that it must make sense to other administrators and to video operators.

5. Optional: check Use a trusted certificate chain to verify if you want to use certificates.

6. Optional: check Certificates against certificate revocation lists (CRLs) if you chose to use certificates, and you want Meeting Management to reject the connection if a certificate has been revoked.

   Meeting Management will block the connection if a certificate in the chain has been revoked, or if there is a CRL it cannot access.

   We recommend that you enable this when possible.

   Note: Only certificates with HTTP Certificate Distribution points (CDPs) are supported. If you are using CRL checks, and a certificate has no CDP, or if the CDP is not reachable via HTTP, then the connection is rejected.

   Also, Meeting Management must be set up so it can connect to external address via HTTP.

7. Optional: If you have chosen to use certificate security, then Upload certificate.

   Certificate requirements:

   • The certificate chain should include the certificate of the CA that signed the Web Admin Interface's certificate, plus any certificates higher in the certificate chain, up to and including the root CA certificate.

   • The server address you entered for your Call Bridge or Edge Node must be included in the Web Admin Interface certificate.

     Note: If the SAN (Subject Alternative Name) field is used, Meeting Management does not look at the Common Name, so make sure that the server address is added to the SAN field.

8. Optional: If you want to use Meeting Management only for licensing and provisioning, then uncheck the Use Meeting Management to manage meetings on this cluster check box.

9. Note: You can change this later by editing cluster settings, see Disable meeting management for a cluster.

10. Note: There is no information on the Meetings page to let video operators know that meeting management had been disabled for one or more clusters.

11. Click Add.

12. Optional: Edit cluster to give it a display name that makes sense to you as well as all other users.

If the Call Bridge or Edge Node you added is part of a cluster, the other Call Bridges or Edge Nodes in the cluster are auto-discovered and displayed below so you can easily add them.

To add auto-discovered Call Bridges and Edge Nodes:

1. Click Show.
2. In the Actions column, click .
3. Enter details for the Call Bridge or Edge Node and upload certificate if relevant.
4. Continue until you have added all Call Bridges or Edge Nodes in the cluster.

To edit a Call Bridge or Edge Node:

1. Scroll down to the Call Bridge or Edge Node you want to edit and click or click anywhere in the row.
2. Edit any other details.

3. To reset the password, click the Reset password button to launch the Reset Password pop-up window. The following fields are displayed:

   1. Username – Displays the MMP administrator Username.

   2. Current password – Enter the password that is currently configured. This field will not be displayed if the CMS password reset option in the Advance security tab is checked.

   3. New password – Enter the new password for the Meeting Server. Meeting Management validates the new password against the criteria defined in the Meeting Server and displays error messages in case of invalid entries.

   4. Confirm new password – Re-enter the new password.

4. Click Done

Note: The system validates all fields entered in the reset password pop-up window. Administrators have three attempts to provide valid entries to reset the password, if unsuccessful, they can retry in two hours.

To disable or enable the Meeting Management functionality for an existing cluster:

1. Click Edit cluster
2. Check or uncheck the Use Meeting Management to manage meetings on this cluster check box
3. Click Done.