Cisco Cisco TelePresence Management Suite (TMS) Version 15 Maintenance Manual
1.
Go to
Administrative Tools > General Settings
.
2.
In the field Phone Books Update Frequency, specify how often you want the phone book to be posted to the
endpoints.
endpoints.
3.
Click Save.
If corporate directory is used, the systems will read the phone book directly from Cisco TMS, and the update frequency
can be ignored.
can be ignored.
Exporting Contacts to a File
You can set up the
File Based Phone Book source to use for exporting phone book contacts to a file on a directory on
your Cisco TMS server or another web server. Cisco TMS will then create a tab delimited file.
1.
Create a phone book .
2.
Click Connect for this phone book.
3.
Select the sources you want to export contacts from.
4.
For Update Type for these sources, select either
Import to Cisco TMS or Import to Cisco TMS and Export to phone
book source.
5.
Now select the
File Based Phone Book source you want to export to.
6.
For Update Type for this source, select
Import to Cisco TMS and Export to Phone Books Source.
The first line of the file will contain the headers; Name, ISDNNumber, ISDNNumber2, ISDNBandwidth, Restrict, Tele-
phone, SIP, H.323, IPBandwidth, ExternalId
phone, SIP, H.323, IPBandwidth, ExternalId
The remaining lines will contain the actual phone book contacts. The ExternalId column will contain a unique id for the
phone book entry.
phone book entry.
Manage Phone Books
In Cisco TMS:
Phone Books > Manage Phone Books
The
Manage Phone Books
page consists of a
Directory
pane on the left-hand side displaying the phone books and a
Workspace
pane to the right.
Workspace buttons
Clicking New initiates the creation of a new phone book. After a phone book has been created and populated, select it to
modify the configuration, or to click on any of the following buttons:
modify the configuration, or to click on any of the following buttons:
■
Edit to change the name.
■
Delete, then confirm, to delete the phone book. This does not delete any connected sources.
■
Set on Systems to distribute the phone book to specific endpoints. See
for further instructions.
Sources
The
Sources
tab displays information for each source connected to the selected phone book. On the
Sources
tab you
can create, update, and delete connections to phone book sources.
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