Cisco Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server Manuel De Maintenance
3-30 Setting up Cisco MeetingPlace
Cisco MeetingPlace Audio Server System Manager’s Guide
February 27, 2004
Preventing toll fraud
Although recent court decisions and Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) regulations stipulate that toll fraud is the customer’s responsibility and
not the responsibility of the equipment vendors, MeetingPlace provides
several ways to prevent unauthorized use. Because MeetingPlace is a
powerful telecommunications system allowing calls in and out, it is important
to take measures to prevent unauthorized access to your system, as shown in
the following table.
(FCC) regulations stipulate that toll fraud is the customer’s responsibility and
not the responsibility of the equipment vendors, MeetingPlace provides
several ways to prevent unauthorized use. Because MeetingPlace is a
powerful telecommunications system allowing calls in and out, it is important
to take measures to prevent unauthorized access to your system, as shown in
the following table.
Action
Description
Restrict outdialing
privileges
privileges
The first level of protection against toll fraud is the user profile, which
determines a user’s outdial privileges and whether they can schedule meetings
that allow guests to attend over the Web.
determines a user’s outdial privileges and whether they can schedule meetings
that allow guests to attend over the Web.
You can restrict outdialing privileges to specific user groups, such as sales and
marketing, or to specific user profiles, such as Jones and Smith. In the most
extreme case, you can choose to disable impromptu outdialing for all users,
virtually eliminating the potential for toll fraud.
marketing, or to specific user profiles, such as Jones and Smith. In the most
extreme case, you can choose to disable impromptu outdialing for all users,
virtually eliminating the potential for toll fraud.
To ensure that only registered users can outdial from within meetings:
1. In the Configure tab, select the
User Profiles
topic.
2. For the
Can call out from mtgs?
attribute, make sure it is set to
No
in the
guest profile.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 for the
User Groups
topic.
4. To simply restrict the number of outdials a user or guest can make from
within a meeting, set the
Max outdials per mtg
attribute to a small number.
In addition, if you do not want MeetingPlace to outdial to guests when they
click the Join Voice Conference button from the Web, make sure the
click the Join Voice Conference button from the Web, make sure the
Can allow
guest outdial in mtgs
attribute is set to
No
in all user profiles. For more
information on this attribute, see
Limit near-term
meetings
meetings
You can limit the number of near-term meetings (meetings scheduled to occur
within six hours of the scheduling time) by setting the near-term limit for the
User Groups and User Profiles topics.
within six hours of the scheduling time) by setting the near-term limit for the
User Groups and User Profiles topics.