Overview of first time setup

Before you start setting up Meeting Management, please see Before you start and make sure that you have everything ready.

Meeting Management is available as an OVA file on cisco.com for all customers with a Cisco Meeting Server support contract.

During the first time setup, you will go through the following steps:

1. Deploy the OVA.
2. Set Meeting Management up on your network.
3. Sign in with generated credentials and change password.
4. Edit settings:
   1. Edit network settings.
   2. Upload certificate.
   3. Enter CDR receiver address.
   4. Optional: Connect to TMS.
   5. Add NTP servers.
   6. Optional: Add sign-in messages.
   7. Optional: Configure advanced security settings.
5. Add log servers.
6. Restart Meeting Management to save CDR receiver address, and optionally TMS details, before you add Call Bridges.
7. Add Call Bridges.
   1. Add an existing Meeting Server
   2. Configure and add a new Meeting Server
8. Choose licensing mode
9. Optional: Associate cluster with TMS
10. Optional: Get access to TMS phonebooks.
11. Add more users:
    1. Set up LDAP server details.
    2. Add LDAP groups.
    3. Optional: Set up security policies for local users.
    4. Optional: Add local users.
12. Restart Meeting Management to save all settings.
13. Create a backup.