Address Book - Polycom RMX 2000 Administrator's Manual

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Address Book

The Address Book is your participant contacts database and information
storage for the people and businesses you communicate with. The
Address Book stores, among many other fields, IP addresses and network
communication protocols used by the participant's endpoint. By utilizing
the Address Book users are able to quickly and efficiently assign or
designate participants to conferences. Groups defined in the Address
Book help facilitate the creation of conferences. Rather than defining each
participant individually to a conference, groups enable multiple
participants to be added to a conference.
Importing and exporting of Address Books enables organizations to
seamlessly distribute up-to-date Address Books to multiple RMX units. It
is not possible to distribute Address Books to external databases running
on applications such as Polycom's ReadiManager. External databases can
run in conjunction with RMX units, but must be managed from the
external application, e.g. adding new participants cannot be added to the
external database from the RMX Web Client. To enable the RMX to run
with an external database, the appropriate system configuration flag must
be set. For more information, see "System Configuration" on page 11-5.
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