Configuring Transcoder Policy Rules - Cisco TelePresence Administrator's Manual

Field Description
Name An optional free-form description of the trusted
host device.
IP address The IP address of the trusted host device.
Type The type of device that may send signaling
messages to the B2BUA.
OCS/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 OCS/Lync B2BUA transcoder policy rules
OCS/Lync > Transcoder policy
via a transcoder.
If Enable transcoders for this B2BUA (configured on the
page) is 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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OCS/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.
Cisco VCS Administrator Guide (X7.1)
rules) is used to define the rules that control which B2BUA calls are routed
page) is set to Yes.
Usage tips
The name is not used as part of the "trusted"
criteria. It is provided only to help
distinguish between multiple devices, rather
than having to rely on their IP addresses.
page (Applications > B2BUA > Microsoft
Microsoft OCS/Lync B2BUA configuration
Usage tips
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.
Applications
Microsoft
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