What is new in 3.6 for administrators

This is an overview of new features and changes that are relevant for administrators.

Apply customized layouts using Meeting Management

In version 3.6, Meeting Management supports customizable layouts. This allows video operators and administrators to apply a customized screen layout that suit their specific needs for the ongoing meetings and/or the participants in the meeting. These layouts are defined in the Meeting Server and hence Meeting Management does not supports adding, deleting, or editing custom layouts. The custom layouts included in the Meeting Server will be visible under Custom layouts in Change screen layout page in the Meeting Management.

Note: Customizable layouts is a licensed feature. You need to purchase the necessary license to use this feature.

Meeting Management supports a maximum of 20 custom layouts. Meeting Management displays five custom layouts at a time with a link to view more layouts. Customizable layouts are not supported on triple screen endpoints.

In case there are no custom layouts defined in Meeting Server, Meeting Management will display only the standard layouts.

Note: Custom layouts will not be available if pane placement is enabled for the meeting.

Ability to capture pcap files in Meeting Management

From version 3.6, administrators can capture packets continuously to avoid delays while processing pcaps for trouble shooting networking issues in Meeting Management.

Administrators can capture packets on the CMM PCAP page in the CMM Logs tab by clicking Start PCAP button. The packets are captured in .zip file and can be downloaded using the download button available against the captured file. Administrators also have an option to delete the captured files. Once initiated, the packets are captured continuously until stopped by administrator using the Stop PCAP button.

Packets are captured in multiple files, on rotation. When a pcap file size exceeds 500MB, the packets are captured in a new file. This allows packet to be captured perpetually until the administrator stops. Meeting Management saves upto four pcap files with a total maximum file size limit of 2GB at any given time. Once the fourth pcap file size exceeds 500MB, the oldest pcap file is deleted.

Accessibility improvements

In version 3.6 Meeting Management introduces the following accessibility improvements:

  • The following elements in the Meeting Management now have meaningful description to help participants who use screen reader:

    • Meeting Management UI options such as Clear all button, Close button, Times link, Back button, Pin button and Edit button now have appropriate descriptive labels.

    • the dialog boxes and toggle buttons in Blast dial configuration, User Profile and Settings pages.

    • meeting search criteria drop-down list on the Meetings page.

    • Meetings page options such as Scheduled or Unscheduled, Active, Upcoming or Ended.

  • All the options on the Meeting Management Licenses page are now accessible through keyboard including the graphs.

  • On the Overview page, user can now use the close button (X) to close the Notifications dialog box using the keyboard.

  • The following elements in the Meeting Management are now announced appropriately by the screen reader:

    • the Meeting Management UI options such as Profile menu button, Blast dial configuration tab, Cloud connector dialog box, and Backup and restore dialog box.

    • all the options on the left pane of the Main page.

    • all the notification pop-ups and search results.

Online help

The online help has been updated according to changes that have been implemented for this trial release. Find it here:

https://meeting-infohub.cisco.com/olh/meeting-management/3-6/