Cisco Cisco TelePresence Management Suite (TMS) Version 15 Installation Guide
Getting started with Cisco TMS
Cisco TelePresence Management Suite Installation and Getting Started Guide (13.1)
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Working with phone books
A key feature of Cisco TMS is the ability to offer centralized phone books for managed systems.
We recommend during initial configuration that you familiarize yourself with how phone books are
assigned to systems.
assigned to systems.
A phone book is a listing of contacts:
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Local phone books are the directories stored and available on most endpoints. These are normally set
up and edited directly on the endpoint itself.
up and edited directly on the endpoint itself.
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Server phone books are phone books managed by Cisco TMS. Multiple phone books can be created in
Cisco TMS and each one can be assigned to different users-groups and systems. Each contact entry
can include ISDN, IP, SIP, and telephone numbers.
Cisco TMS and each one can be assigned to different users-groups and systems. Each contact entry
can include ISDN, IP, SIP, and telephone numbers.
To create or manage phone books, go to
Phone Books > Manage Phone Books
.
Phone book sources
A phone book in Cisco TMS can be populated from one or more phone book sources. Cisco TMS can
create phone books from a variety of sources including Active Directory, H.350 Servers, Gatekeepers,
and files.
create phone books from a variety of sources including Active Directory, H.350 Servers, Gatekeepers,
and files.
To create or manage phone book sources, go to
Phone Books > Manage Phone Book Sources
.
Setting phone books on a system
This is the process that associates a system with a phone book so that the system can read and display
the phone book contents.
the phone book contents.
Phone books can be set on any number of systems, and each system can have multiple phone books
associated with it. This allows you to create phone books for different purposes and assign them to the
specific systems that need them.
associated with it. This allows you to create phone books for different purposes and assign them to the
specific systems that need them.
To set phone books on one or more systems, go to
Phone Books > Manage Phone Books
. It is also
possible to assign phone books to an individual system in System Navigator using the
Phone Book
tab
when viewing a system.
Access control
Use Cisco TMS user groups to define which users get read access to the different phone books.
If provisioning is enabled, use Provisioning Directory groups to define which provisioned users shall have
access to each phone book.
access to each phone book.
The default phone books
Two default phone books are created as part of the initial installation: