Monitoring Auto Cascaded Conference Links; Limitations - Polycom MGC+100 Release Note

"Start only when the chairperson connects" option is implemented, participants in all
conferences will be placed on hold until a chairperson joins one of the conferences. If the
"Terminate conference after the chairperson exits" option is implemented, all conferences
will be terminated when there is no longer a chairperson connected to a conference.
Terminating a Cascading Conference
The system will terminate a slave conference when it no longer has any live participants,
and will terminate the master conference when it no longer has any live participants itself
and has no slave conferences with live participants.

Monitoring Auto Cascaded Conference Links

The links between Auto Cascaded conferences can be monitored in both the MGC Manager
and the MGC WebCommander. The important links to monitor are the dial-out link
participants.
Figure 1-1 shows an example of monitoring an Auto Cascaded conference in the MGC
Manager.
Figure 1-1: Monitoring an Auto Cascade conference
The Link Participant Names
The dial-out link participant name will be as follows:
For example, the master conference link to slave3 may be called:
Dial-in link participants will have a visual name of the following format after they are
moved from the Entry Queue to the conference:
For example, the dial-in link from a slave conference may have the visual name:

Limitations

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LinkTo[ConferenceType(Master/Slave)]_[Target MCU IP]_
[Primary or Secondary connection (0/1)_[Link Number (01..99)]
LinkToSlave_11.11.11.11_0_03
LinkTo[ConferenceType(Master/Slave)]_[Link Number (01..99)]
LinkToMaster_01
In Continuous Presence conferences, the layout must be set to full screen.
The MGC Manager and WebCommander monitoring is per MCU. There is no GUI to
display cascaded conferences across multiple MCUs as one conference.
The following chairperson actions are implemented per MCU: Voting, Question and
Answers, Replay Roll Call, Change password and Operator assistance.
For H.263 4CIF and H.264 Continuous Presence conferences, the link will be defined
as H.263 CIF.
The Auto Cascade feature does not work with H.239/People + Content.
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