Cisco Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server Maintenance Manual

Cisco MeetingServer 5.1 System Manager’s Guide   

 

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Cisco Systems 

 

March 2003 

When setting up a multiserver meeting, you need to schedule individual 
meetings on each of the MeetingPlace servers and specify which system are 
responsible for connecting all the servers. The server that is responsible for 
this connection is the primary server.  

At the start of the meeting, the primary server places a call to the secondary 
servers. Once the secondary servers receive this call, they add the primary 
server to the meeting just as they would any participant who dialed into their 
system. The primary server communicates information to the secondary servers 
using DTMF signaling over the phone connection. 

For example, if you wanted to schedule a meeting between New York City, 
London, and Hong Kong, you would need to set up one meeting on each 
server. These three separate meetings would then connect into one 
multiserver meeting as soon as the primary server established a connection 
with the other servers. If the New York City MeetingPlace server was 
scheduled as the primary server, Figure 8-9 shows how the multiserver 
connection would be established. 

 

Before scheduling a multiserver meeting, it is recommended that you write 
down which servers are involved in the meeting and which server you want 
as the primary server.  

Because you are scheduling more than one MeetingPlace server, special 
considerations need to be made when inviting participants and attaching 
documents.