This topic describes how to add your video conferencing systems to be managed by Mividas Rooms, including how to import endpoint details in bulk from Cisco TMS or Excel, and how to approve new systems.
If Cisco TMS and Mividas Rooms co-exist during a trial process or migration, you should disable the Enforce management settings on systems option in the TMS Services section on Cisco TMS. Otherwise, Cisco TMS may overwrite various settings.
From within Mividas Rooms, select Systems via the main navigation in the left sidebar to get an overview of all of the currently available video conferencing systems.
For more details on how to manage all your video conferencing systems, see Mividas Rooms system overview, and to change a system’s call settings see Modifying a system’s call settings.
| Page actions | |
|---|---|
| Allows you to manually add a single system. | |
| Allows you to add several systems, either manually or imported via an Excel file. | |
| 1. Page refresh (
) allows you to manually refresh the dashboard 2. Access relevant documentation ( ) |
Add a single system
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Name | The system unit name displayed in Mividas Rooms list of endpoints and in the address book. Note: This option will only set the name for the system in Mividas Rooms, to change the name for the system itself you will need to provision the dialing properties. |
| Type of system | Choose the type of system: Cisco System, Cisco system using Webex API, Other (list only). |
| Username 1 | Enter the username for the system. |
| Sign in with default password 1 | If this option is checked, Mividas Rooms will try to add the system with one of the passwords specified under Mividas Rooms > Admin > Settings > Security. To add the password manually instead, uncheck this checkbox. |
| Enter password manually 1 | Enter the password manually. Only shows if the default checkbox is unchecked. |
| IP address | Enter the IP address of the system. |
| Port to the Web interface 1 | Enter the port that is used for the systems web interface. |
| Full DNS hostname 1 | Enter the FQDN of the system. The FQDN will take precedence over the IP address. |
| Update IP data automatically when sent from system | Check this option if you want Mividas Rooms to acknowledge and track IP address changes for the selected endpoint. |
| Type of connection | Choose if the endpoint is accessible directly from Mividas Rooms, through Proxy or passive provisioning. Note: Proxy requires that the tenant has a Mividas Proxy deployed and configured. |
| Validate SSL connection | Check this option if you wish to validate the SSL connection between Mividas Rooms and the system. |
| MAC address | This will be automatically filled in when the system connection is active. You can also specify the MAC address in advance so that the correct system is connected to Mividas Rooms for passive provisioning. Note: If a passive connection is used the MAC address will be received first after the system has been approved. |
| Serial number | This will be automatically filled in when the system connection is active. You can also specify the serial number in advance so that the correct system is connected to Mividas Rooms for passive provisioning. Note: If a passive connection is used the serial number will be received first after the system has been approved. |
| Location | Choose a location for the system. This can be used for filtering and analytics. |
| Organization unit | Choose a organization unit for the system. This can be used for filtering and analytics. |
| Number of seats in room | Set the number of seats in the physical meeting room. This value will be used for analytics and will show the efficiency of that particular meeting room. |
| Allow storage of sensor data | Enabling this option allows Mividas Core/Mividas Rooms to store sensor data from the Cisco endpoint. This setting does not disable or impact any functionality of the Cisco system. |
| Personal system | Check this box if the system is a personal system. This will disable the people count for the system for privacy reasons. |
| External mailbox | Specify a calendar e-mail address. Preparation for future update to connect systems to hybrid calendar mailboxes to enable OBTP using e-mail instead of directly contacting the system. |
| Standard type of scheduling from Portal | Choose what the the standard type of scheduling should be. Dial out from meeting room + OBTP, OBTP, Dial out from system, No booking. |
| ID in inventory systems | If an organization uses, for example, inventory numbers, this ID can be added as metadata. This can be useful when a conference system is replaced, requiring an update to a new ID, or when a device is decommissioned, necessitating the removal of an ID. |
| Service reference | Manually added references, such as a service contract with Cisco. |
| Notes | Enter any notes for the system. |
| Press to continue adding the system, or press to cancel. |
1. Not available for Cisco systems using Webex API.
Add multiple systems
Manually
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Choose some default settings that will apply to all the systems you are about to add. The options are: Update IP data automatically when sent from the system – Check this option if you want Mividas Rooms to acknowledge and track IP address changes for the selected endpoint. Update existing systems – Check this to update systems with the same specified serial number or MAC address, to flush the value of existing systems. Existing systems only – Check this to not add any new systems but only update existing ones. Type of connection – Select the type of connection for the systems; Direct connection, By Mividas Proxy-client, Passive/behind firewall.Dial-in protocol – Select the preferred dial-in protocol; <Default>, SIP, H.323. |
- Product family – Choose the type of system:
Cisco System,Cisco system using Webex API,Other (list only).
- Name – The system unit name displayed in Mividas Rooms list of endpoints and in the address book.
Note: This option will only set the name for the system in Mividas Rooms, to change the name for the system itself you will need to provision the dialing properties. - IP – Enter the IP address of the system.
- Username – Enter the username for the system.
- Password – If this option is checked, Mividas Rooms will try to add the system with one of the passwords specified under
Mividas Rooms > Admin > Settings > Security. To add the password manually instead, uncheck this checkbox. - Seats – Set the number of seats in the physical meeting room. This value will be used for analytics and will show the efficiency of that particular meeting room.
- MAC – This will be automatically filled in when the system connection is active. You can also specify the MAC address in advance so that the correct system is connected to Mividas Rooms for passive provisioning.
Note: If a passive connection is used the MAC address will be received first after the system has been approved. - Serial number – This will be automatically filled in when the system connection is active. You can also specify the serial number in advance so that the correct system is connected to Mividas Rooms for passive provisioning.
Note: If a passive connection is used the serial number will be received first after the system has been approved. - Organization inherence – Choose an organization unit for the system. This can be used for filtering and analytics.
- Hostname – Enter the FQDN of the system. The FQDN will take precedence over the IP address.
- Location – Choose a location for the system. This can be used for filtering and analytics.
- SIP – Enter the SIP URI of the system.
- H.323 – Enter the H.323 ID of the system.
- E.164 – Enter the E.164 alias of the system.
- Person’s e-mail address – Connect the system to a user. Will be used to automatically list systems belonging to a user in the scheduling portal (if applicable).
- External mailbox – Specify a calendar e-mail address. Preparation for future update to connect systems to hybrid calendar mailboxes to enable OBTP using e-mail instead of directly contacting the system.
- ID in inventory systems – If an organization uses, for example, inventory numbers, this ID can be added as metadata. This can be useful when a conference system is replaced, requiring an update to a new ID, or when a device is decommissioned, necessitating the removal of an ID.
- Service reference – Add a service contract reference if applicable.
- Service valid until – Manually enter this system’s service contract end date.
- Notes – Enter any notes for the system.
From Excel
Choose an Excel file to import. The file format does not need to match the form precisely; instead, you map each column in the file to the corresponding column.