Scheduling Reservations - Polycom realpresence 1800 Administrator's Manual

Scheduling Reservations

The Reservations option enables users to schedule conferences. These conferences can be launched
immediately or become ongoing, at a specified time on a specified date.
Scheduling a conference reservation requires definition of conference parameters such as the date and time
at which the conference is to start, the participants and the duration of the conference.
Scheduled conferences (Reservations) can occur once or repeatedly, and the recurrence pattern can vary.
By default, the Scheduler is enabled by a System Flag. The flag prevents potential scheduling conflicts from
occurring as a result of system calls from external scheduling applications such as RealPresence Resource
Manager, ReadiManager®, SE200, and others via the API.
If an external scheduling application is used, the flag INTERNAL_SCHEDULER must be manually added
to the System Configuration and its value must be set to NO.
For more information see
Note: Resource Capacities and Operational Specifications
For information about Resource Capacities and other operational specifications, see the
RealPresence® Collaboration Server (RMX) Hardware Guide specific to your system.
Note: Using Reservations with RealPresence DMA
In the Polycom® RealPresence® Web Suite solution, Reservations are defined in the RealPresence
DMA system component and should not be defined directly in the RealPresence Collaboration Server
(RMX) 1800/2000/4000 component.
System resources are calculated according to the Collaboration Server's license. For more information, see
Forcing Video Resource Allocation to CIF
System resource availability is partially checked when reservations are created:
● If a conference duration extension request is received from an ongoing conference, the request is
rejected if it would cause a resource conflict.
● If several reservations are scheduled to be activated at the same time and there are not enough
resources for all participants to be connected:
 The conferences are activated.
 Participants are connected to all the ongoing conferences until all system resources are used up.
If sufficient resources are not available in the system and a scheduled Reservation cannot be activated, the
Reservation is deleted from the schedule.
In RealPresence Collaboration Server (RMX) 1800/2000/4000 resources for Reservations are also
calculated using the Reserve Resources for Audio/Video Participants fields of the New Reservation dialog
box.
Resources are reserved for participants at the highest video resolution supported by the Line Rate specified
in the conference Profile and up to the maximum system video resolution specified by the Resolution
Configuration dialog box.
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Modifying System Flags.
Resolution.
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