Cisco Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server Expressway
Configuring the Cisco VCS
Cisco VCS Deployment Guide: Cisco VCS Expressway Starter Pack (X6.1)
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Enable presence server (optional)
The presence server allows provisioned clients to see the presence status (Online, Away, Busy in a
call and Offline) of other clients.
call and Offline) of other clients.
1. Go to the
Presence
page (
Applications > Presence
).
2. Configure SIP SIMPLE Presence Server to On.
3. Click Save.
Create user accounts
You must configure an account for each user:
1. Go to the
User accounts
page (
Maintenance > Login accounts > User accounts
) and click
New.
2. Configure the fields as follows:
Username
The username for logging into this user account, for example name.surname.
Note that the username is case sensitive. This same username must be used as the
name in the local authentication database if device authentication is enabled.
This username is also used to create the FindMe default device URI and the
provisioned device URI. To create these as a valid SIP URI, the username must
consist of alphanumeric characters but not spaces, the @ sign or extended
characters (such as ö or â). For the full set of allowed characters, see ”Appendix 5 –
Characters allowed in SIP URIs”.
Note that the username is case sensitive. This same username must be used as the
name in the local authentication database if device authentication is enabled.
This username is also used to create the FindMe default device URI and the
provisioned device URI. To create these as a valid SIP URI, the username must
consist of alphanumeric characters but not spaces, the @ sign or extended
characters (such as ö or â). For the full set of allowed characters, see ”Appendix 5 –
Characters allowed in SIP URIs”.