Configuring Transcoder Policy Rules - Cisco TelePresence Administrator's Manual

Applications
Field Description
Type The type of device that may send signaling
messages to the B2BUA.
Lync device: this includes Hardware Load
Balancers, Directors and Front End Processors
Transcoder: a transcoder device such as a Cisco
TelePresence Advanced Media Gateway

Configuring transcoder policy rules

The Microsoft Lync B2BUA transcoder policy rules
Transcoder policy rules) is used to define the rules that control which Lync B2BUA calls are routed via a
transcoder.
If Enable transcoders for this B2BUA (configured on the
Yes, then all calls are routed via the transcoders by default. If transcoder resources need to be reserved for
specific types of calls then you can specify rules to limit the types of calls that are routed via the transcoders.
The rules on this page are only applied if Use transcoder policy rules (also configured on the
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Lync B2BUA configuration
A rule is applied if it matches either the source or destination alias of a call.
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If the aliases associated with a call do not match any of the policy rules, the call will be routed via the
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transcoder. Therefore you may want to consider having a general low priority rule with a regex pattern
match for all aliases that denies transcoder resources, and then have more specific rules with a higher
priority that define the participants that are allowed to use the transcoder resources.
The page lists all the currently configured rules and lets you create, edit, delete, enable and disable rules.
Note that you can click on a column heading to sort the list, for example by Rule name or Priority.
The configurable options are:
Field Description
Name The name assigned to the rule.
Description An optional free-form description of the rule.
Priority Sets the order in which the rules are applied. The
rules with the highest priority (1, then 2, then 3
and so on) are applied first.
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The description appears as a tooltip if you
hover your mouse pointer over a rule in the
list.
Multiple rules with the same priority are
applied in configuration order. For clarity
you are recommended to use unique
priority settings for each rule.
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