Cisco Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server Quick Setup Guide
Monitoring and Maintaining Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing
How to Schedule a Maintenance Window
9
Reserve All Ports Meetings
When you need to schedule time to perform upgrades or other maintenance activities to the
Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system, schedule a Reserve All Ports meeting. When you schedule a
Reserve All Ports meeting, the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system performs the following actions:
Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system, schedule a Reserve All Ports meeting. When you schedule a
Reserve All Ports meeting, the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace system performs the following actions:
•
Reserves all available ports, or the maximum number of user licenses available in the system
•
Blocks out all new callers for the duration of the scheduled meeting
•
Prohibits the extension of in-session meetings that began before the Reserve All Ports meeting
begins
begins
Reserve All Ports meetings are scheduled, private meetings. The meeting attributes are the same as for
scheduled meetings, with the exceptions described in the following table.
scheduled meetings, with the exceptions described in the following table.
Scheduling a Maintenance Window
Caution
As a system administrator, it is your responsibility to ensure that no regular meetings are scheduled
before scheduling a Reserve All Ports meeting.
before scheduling a Reserve All Ports meeting.
Caution
Reserve All Ports meetings prevent the system from scheduling any meetings. Also, during a Reserve
All Ports meeting, no prompts are played to alert users to the situation. For these reasons, we strongly
recommend that you schedule Reserve All Ports meetings during the lowest usage times. In addition, be
sure to cancel any Reserve All Ports meetings that you later determine you do not need.
All Ports meeting, no prompts are played to alert users to the situation. For these reasons, we strongly
recommend that you schedule Reserve All Ports meetings during the lowest usage times. In addition, be
sure to cancel any Reserve All Ports meetings that you later determine you do not need.
Before You Begin
Remember the following information:
•
You cannot extend a scheduled Reserve All Ports meeting, but you can reschedule the meeting.
•
Only one Reserve All Ports meeting can be scheduled at a time (one Reserve All Ports meeting must
be finished or deleted before another can be scheduled).
be finished or deleted before another can be scheduled).
•
If a Reserve All Ports meeting overlaps another scheduled meeting that is then canceled, the Reserve
All Ports meeting reserves the ports released by the other meeting.
All Ports meeting reserves the ports released by the other meeting.
•
Scheduled Reserve All Ports meetings appear in the server exception log, and any changes to a
meeting (such as deleting or rescheduling) are shown in the log.
meeting (such as deleting or rescheduling) are shown in the log.
•
If callers dial in to the server while a Reserve All Ports meeting is in session (and all ports are
reserved), they hear nothing (silence).
reserved), they hear nothing (silence).
•
The meeting ID for a Reserve All Ports meeting cannot be changed.
Attribute
Value
Frequency
Once
# of calling sites
SysMaintenance
Record meeting?
No
Meeting name
SysMaintenance
Meeting type
All Speaker