Polycom RealPresence 1800 Administration Manual page 342

Appendix - Polycom Lab Features
Polycom enables examining experimental features of Polycom RealPresence Collaboration Server. These
features may be later incorporated as constant features, but at this point are neither tested nor supported.
Only an Administrator may access the experimental features, provided the Collaboration Server is in
experimental mode.
Experimental features activation does not require system restart, and take effect immediately on newly
created conferences.
Warning!
Do not activate any of the lab features in Collaboration Servers used at production sites. Any attempt
to do so is at your own peril.
Inactivated features cannot be viewed or examined.
Lab Features Guidelines
● Experimental Features may be enabled both via User Interface, as described above, or via XML API.
● The User Interface displays the list of available Lab features according to the Interface / RMX
Manager version, and not according to the Collaboration Server version. Therefore, the used
Interface / RMX Manager should match the current Collaboration Server version, to allow enabling
new Lab features.
In that context, if the Interface / RMX Manager version is higher than that of the Collaboration Server,
the newer options are displayed, though the Collaboration Server does not support them.
● Enabling a Lab feature merely results in display of feature related check box in Profile/Conference
Properties dialog. Selecting the check box at the conference/profile level activates the feature for
that specific conference, or new conferences launched using this specific profile.
● Disabling Lab Features only inactivates them, but preserves their respective check boxes values.
Thus, should the Lab Features be re-activated in general, their respective status from before the
general inactivating is resumed.
However, ongoing conferences retain the Lab features activation and status from their creation point.
● Lab Features settings are preserved during Backup & Restore operations, even when involving
upgrading to a higher version, in which case an adjustment of the appropriate system flags and/or
setting is performed.
● When Lab Features are enabled, conferencing profiles defined in the MCU are preferred to those
defined in the DMA.
● In cascaded environments, the Administrator should verify the Lab Features settings across all the
cascaded MCUs are the same.
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