Configuring External Manager Settings - Cisco TelePresence Administrator's Manual

Network and system settings

Configuring external manager settings

The External manager page
an external management system.
An external manager is a remote system, such as the Cisco TelePresence Management Suite (Cisco TMS),
used to monitor events occurring on the VCS, for example call attempts, connections and disconnections,
and as a place for where the VCS can send alarm information. The use of an external manager is optional.
Field Description
Address To use an external manager,
and path you must configure the VCS
with the IP address or host
name and path of the external
manager to be used.
Protocol Determines whether
communications with the
external manager are over
HTTP or HTTPS. The default
is HTTPS.
Certificate Controls whether the
verification certificate presented by the
mode external manager is verified.
Note that:
the VCS will continue to operate without loss of service if its connection to Cisco TMS fails. This applies
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even if the VCSs are clustered. No specific actions are required as the VCS and Cisco TMS will
automatically start communicating with each other again after the connection is re-established.
Cisco TMS identifies the VCS as a "TANDBERG VCS".
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Cisco VCS Administrator Guide (X8.1.1)
(System > External manager) is used to configure the VCS's connection to
Usage tips
If you are using Cisco TMS as your external manager, use the
default path of tms/public/external/management/
SystemManagementService.asmx.
If you enable verification, you must also add the certificate of the
issuer of the external manager's certificate to the file containing the
VCS's trusted CA certificates. This is done from the
trusted CA certificate list [p.285]
certificates > Trusted CA
Configuring external manager settings
Managing the
page (Maintenance > Security
certificate).
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