Cisco Cisco TelePresence Management Suite (TMS) Version 15 Installation Guide
Getting started with Cisco TMS
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Setting up Cisco TMS
Cisco TMS is designed to automate as much of the configuration of the system as possible and will function
for a basic telepresence network right out of the box.
for a basic telepresence network right out of the box.
This baseline configuration is only a starting point, and is not intended to be the final configuration of Cisco
TMS. As an administrator you will want to tune Cisco TMS's default behaviors to suit your organization's
needs, set up permissions for various users, and configure Cisco TMS's network model so that all
conference handling functionalities will be available.
TMS. As an administrator you will want to tune Cisco TMS's default behaviors to suit your organization's
needs, set up permissions for various users, and configure Cisco TMS's network model so that all
conference handling functionalities will be available.
Using configuration templates
A common administrative need is to apply a common group of settings to one or more systems.
Configuration templates in Cisco TMS allow you to define a set of configuration parameters to be applied to
systems. The template can include configuration choices for different system types, and Cisco TMS will only
apply the settings that relate to the individual system being updated.
Configuration templates in Cisco TMS allow you to define a set of configuration parameters to be applied to
systems. The template can include configuration choices for different system types, and Cisco TMS will only
apply the settings that relate to the individual system being updated.
Administrators can define multiple templates, and may choose to apply them
n
manually per system
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automatically as systems are added to Cisco TMS
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persistently every time the system is powered up
As part of the default installation, Cisco TMS created a template for you named "Discovered Systems
Template", containing a group of settings that are automatically applied to all systems automatically added to
Cisco TMS by System Discovery.
Template", containing a group of settings that are automatically applied to all systems automatically added to
Cisco TMS by System Discovery.
This was done via the Default Configuration template for Discovered Systems setting under
Administrative
Tools > Configuration > Network Settings
. This topic will review this default as a working example of how
to use Configuration Templates.
Editing a template
1. Open
Systems > Configuration templates
.
2. Click on the template titled "Discovered Systems Template".
3. The Type for the settings in this template is Other type because they are Cisco TMS configuration
settings, not configuration options from the device's commands itself.
4. Click Edit to see the
Edit Settings
page. All templates have some common Cisco TMS settings added to
them to start with, such as Zones and Phone books.
5. To add more settings to the template, click on the
Select Advanced Settings
tab. To see a list of all
available settings, simply leave the Filter box blank and the drop down set to All Systems and click
Search. From this view, you can chose from all the template settings available in Cisco TMS and add
them to the list to be shown on the
Search. From this view, you can chose from all the template settings available in Cisco TMS and add
them to the list to be shown on the
Template Settings
tab.
6. Add or remove settings to the template by marking a setting's check box and using the < > buttons to add
or remove it from the list on the right.
7. Once the desired changes have been made, click on the
Template Settings
tab to return to the previous
view.