Video Conferencing system

[Vysakh Sundar]

We have two queries from customer on Video Conferencing solution can someone help 

1.

.       In current scenario Once Video conference session established & all attendee joins the conference call their name initially appears & later on after establishing conference call  their name disappears ,

Requirement is to show their name/display  of attendee name for during entire session of the call

2.

Second requirement about  Conference call auto  scheduling via MCU (central management ) device ; instead of every one (all attendee ) dial in to bridge no it should be initiated by central device on behalf of everyone & connect all attendee into conference ( as per the scheduled  time of conference meeting the call will get initiated from central management device )

[dpetrovi]

Hi Vysakh,

Let me move this post to Telepresence community. This community is for Cisco WebEx Meetings Server and Cisco Unified MeetingPlace products and is not observed by TP experts. 

I hope this will get you the answers you need faster.

Kind regards,

-Dejan

[Acevirgil de Ocampo]

1.

.       In current scenario Once Video conference session established & all attendee joins the conference call their name initially appears & later on after establishing conference call  their name disappears ,

Requirement is to show their name/display  of attendee name for during entire session of the call

• If this is a MCU hosted video conference, you need to check the MCU global conference settings configuration. Go to Settings > Conference >Time to show participant names, set to <permanent>.

Take a look at the MCU admin guide under p.181.

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/telepresence/infrastructure/mcu/admin_guide/cisco-telepresence-mcu-series-printable-online-help-4-5.pdf

2.

Second requirement about  Conference call auto  scheduling via MCU (central management ) device ; instead of every one (all attendee ) dial in to bridge no it should be initiated by central device on behalf of everyone & connect all attendee into conference ( as per the scheduled  time of conference meeting the call will get initiated from central management device )

• First thing is you need to add the endpoints on the MCU for you to schedule the endpoints on the conference you are creating and make the MCU to auto dial the endpoints.

Take a look at page 115-135 (Configuring H323 endpoints and SIP endpoints) on same guide provided on the link.

regards,

Acevirgil

[Vysakh Sundar]

Dear Acevirgil

Thanks for your reply 

Can you just guide me whether it is correct or not for the second requirement

that under a conference setting there is a option to invite preconfigured participants

We have to pre-configure participants for this conference and when the conference call starts it will dial out all of them 

For the first requirement so all the participants name will be displayed along with their video panes or just video panes

For name again we have to go to 

Home-> Conference -> <Name of conference> -> Participants

Thanks for your time and reply

[Acevirgil de Ocampo · Accepted solution]

For you to invite preconfigured participants, you need to add them first as H.323 or SIP endpoints on the MCU. Just follow the guide provided. Once added, you can invite them as preconfigured participants by just ticking them and the MCU will automatically dial out these endpoints once the conference starts.

By going to the MCU global settings:

Settings > Conferences > Time to show participant names

This setting controls whether (and for how long) participants shown in view panes are accompanied by their supplied name.

regards,

Acevirgil

[Vysakh Sundar]

Dear Acevirgil

We tried the above both configuration and it is working fine

When MCU is dialing out to the pre configured participants users are getting the H323 ID gatekeeper what we configured under the H323 setting can we over ride the conference number with this

When we tried the setting

Invite preconfigured participants When other participant joins the conference

under this setting if a pre configured participant dials conference is happening but the MCU dial again the user which first dialed the conference