Cisco Meeting Server Management Platform

[msamadpour]

Our organization requires us to support multi-tenancy, multiple LDAP sources, mappings, user profiles, etc. with the Cisco Meeting Server platform. 

Though the use of the API is effective, it is not efficient for large-scale deployments. 

Prior to the re-branding and acquisition, Acano Manager was a supported product and worked seamlessly with the Acano/CMS platform. 

Is there a supported management product (one that can support the creation and management of multi-tenancy, profiles, etc.)? 

If not, does anyone know of a roadmap/timeline of such a supported application?

[Jaime Valencia]

Roadmap items cannot be discussed at CSC as those are NDA material.

If you're a partner, you'd need to ask in the partner communities, if not, you'd need to reach out to your SE for roadmap information.

[Patrick Sparkman]

I don't know what features it has, but since you mentioned Acano Manager, there is a new version that supports CMS. 

Acano Manager 2.x

[msamadpour]

For the time being, we are running with a trial version of the latest Acano Manager. There are a few issues, but those are being addressed by the Engineering/Development on the Acano Manager side. 

Still awaiting some form of official statement from Cisco with regards to an officially supported application. 

I suspect CMS will be rolled into the Cisco Prime Collaboration platform, but that is only my personal suspicion. 

[mhorsley@vqcomms.com]

VQ produced the original Acano Manager product and OEM'd AM 1.x to Acano. With the Cisco acquisition of Acano, the OEM relationship came to an end but VQ still has a good working relationship with Cisco. VQ recently, for example, became a member of the Cisco Solution Partner Program with Acano Manager 2. Acano Manager 2 (released in April 2016) now hosts some of the biggest CMS deployments; one of the biggest, for example, hosted in excess of 900 thousand calls and over 28 million call minutes in October. CMS and Acano Manager 2 are now widely (over 100 AM 2.x systems) deployed and delivering great results; users love the in-call experience delivered by CMS as the call volume numbers above show.