SmartBridge Administrator Manual
Version 1.0
Asante Network.,
47436 Fremont Blvd.
Fremont, CA 94538
[email protected]
http://www.asante.com
Page 1: ...SmartBridge Administrator Manual Version 1 0 Asante Network 47436 Fremont Blvd Fremont CA 94538 support asante com http www asante com ...
Page 2: ... 10 2 4 SCHEDULED MEETINGS AND ACTIVE MEETINGS 12 2 5 CUSTOMIZING THE MEETING START AND PROMOTION PAGES 13 2 6 INTEGRATION 15 2 7 LICENSING 17 3 CONFIGURING THE FIREWALL 18 3 1 BEHIND FIREWALL AND ACCESSIBLE BY USERS OUTSIDE FIREWALL 18 3 2 OUTSIDE THE FIREWALL 19 3 3 BEHIND FIREWALL AND NOT ACCESSIBLE BY USERS OUTSIDE FIREWALL 21 4 MANAGE USERS 22 5 START MEETINGS 23 6 REPORTING 25 7 RESET APPLIA...
Page 3: ... to be used to access and configure the server I Plug and Play This method requires that you have A DHCP server on your network A computer with Microsoft Windows 98 2000 XP or Vista It is important to follow the instructions below to start the server for initial setup 1 Connect the server with an Ethernet cable not the crossover cable in the package to your network 2 Plug in the power cord to auto...
Page 4: ...computer from any network including the wireless Power on the SmartBridge 8 or SmartBridge 16 as described above Wait for the ready light to turn green This usually takes about 90 seconds Connect the SmartBridge 8 or SmartBridge 16 to your computer using the included crossover cable or any Internet cable Open a browser on your computer and type http 192 168 1 192 The home page Figure 1 1 should di...
Page 5: ...lick the Administrator Entry link and you will see the login page shown in Figure 2 1 Type admin for the Email field password for the Password field To change the default administrator account you use Manage Users see Section 4 to change the default email and password to your choice Figure 2 1 Login Page ...
Page 6: ...After login the System Management home page is displayed in Figure 2 2 ...
Page 7: ...Figure 2 2 Management Home frame Fig 2 2 ...
Page 8: ...r IP Settings Figure 2 3 Configure Server IP Settings Note that if you change the IP settings and submit the changes your browser may hang because the IP is changed You should use the updated IP to access the appliance 7 ...
Page 9: ...red meeting hosted in your LAN Current IP Settings These are the IP addresses that the meeting server has currently Permanent IP Settings The Permanent IP Settings refer to the desired IP settings you want your meeting server to have The permanent IP address can be the same as Public IP Address or different from Public IP Address If the permanent IP is a local IP address it will be different from ...
Page 10: ...only via SSL By default screen images during a meeting are transmitted with proprietary encryption for efficiency However you can use SSL for encryption by enabling the Access this server only via SSL option See the section Manage Your SSL Certificate about how to upload your own SSL Certificate Update System Now This feature retrieves updated SmartBridge software from the Asante web site 9 2 2 Sy...
Page 11: ...ame Common Name Organization State City and Country that you specified in Step 1 Figure 2 6 Setting up an SSL Certificate step 2 Locate your SSL Certificate file and your CA Root Certificate file Using Microsoft WordPad copy and paste the contents of these files into the files shown in step 3 Figure 2 7 10 Certificate 2 3 Managing Your SSL Certificate In the left frame of the System Management pag...
Page 12: ...Figure 2 7 Setting up an SSL Certificate step 3 Test your SSL Certificate as described in step 4 Figure 2 8 Figure 2 8 Setting up an SSL Certificate step 4 11 ...
Page 13: ... URLs show all of the public meetings and provide a link for how to join the meeting Figure 2 9 List of scheduled meetings In the left frame of the System Management page under Meetings click the Active link This feature shows you the list of active meetings for your SmartBridge As the administrator you can stop an Active meeting by clicking the Stop link as shown in Figure 2 10 Figure 2 10 List o...
Page 14: ...eting home page In the left frame of the System Management page under Customization click the Entry Page link This feature allows the Administrator to use a different home page as the standard meeting home page Figure 2 12 Use a new page for the meeting home page The system home page specified in Figure 2 12 should contain ways for users to host and join meetings There are two ways for users to ho...
Page 15: ...t name email value Password input type password name user_password value input type submit name submit value Host Meeting form Here is the HTML code used to allow users to join a meeting form action http yourMeetingServerAddress as wapi goto_downloader method post input type hidden name role value attendee Meeting ID input type text name meeting_id value Meeting Password input type password name p...
Page 16: ...tegration In the left frame of the System Management page under Integration click the Application Server link This feature allows the Administrator to use their own authentication server such as a CRM system for user authentication Figure 2 15 Integration with your server for user authentication For more details on how to integrate with an authentication server 1 Go to http www asante com 2 Click ...
Page 17: ...ge to host more meetings and allow more users Figure 2 17 Request additional meeting rooms and users In the left frame of the System Management page under Licensing click the Upgrade link By filling in the license key and clicking submit you can upgrade the license for your Asante appliance Figure 2 18 Upgrade Asante license 17 ...
Page 18: ...and Accessible by Users outside Firewall In order for external users to access your appliance you need to open the inbound TCP ports 80 443 and 8889 on your firewall router and forward the inbound TCP traffic on these ports to the corresponding ports of the local IP address of your SmartBridge If you are using a SOHO or home router opening inbound ports and doing port forwarding are fairly easy Fo...
Page 19: ...ng port forwarding please refer to the following URL for a step by step guidance for your router http portforward com english routers port_forwarding routerindex htm On the page find your router model or a model closer to yours Click the router On the next page click Click here to skip this advertisement on the top right Now it shows a long list of applications you can do port forwarding for Just ...
Page 20: ...y It will not allow any users outside your firewall VPN to join any meetings hosted on the server On the Server IP Settings configuration page see Section 2 1 choose the option No public IP address This server is used only by internal users Then assign a static local IP subnet mask default gateway and DNS servers for the meeting server Figure 2 3 You do not need to do any configuration on your fir...
Page 21: ...s link A list of users will display as shown in Figure 4 1 Figure 4 1 List Users You can click Add New User button to add a new user Under the Action column click the Edit link to edit a user profile or Delete link to delete a user profile from the system Figure 4 2 below shows the page to create a user You can define the meeting functions for each user Figure 4 2 Create a user profile 22 ...
Page 22: ...hown in Figure 1 1 Click the Host button to host a meeting The next page will ask you to accept a Java Applet Accept it SmartBridge starts to run Figure 5 1 The Meeting Server Address in Figure 5 1 is your meeting server IP address Type your email and password to start a meeting The meeting control panel switches to the entry meeting control panel shown in Figure 5 2 Figure 5 1 Start Meeting Figur...
Page 23: ...Click on the Host an unscheduled meeting button as shown in Figure 5 2 and then select a meeting type Your meeting starts Figure 5 3 Figure 5 3 Main Meeting Control Panel ...
Page 24: ...ails 6 Reporting In the left frame of the System Management page click the Report link to use the Reporting feature The reporting feature allows the Administrator to view details on all meetings that have taken place using a SmartBridge The report can be run for any specified dates and optionally for any set of users The report data can also be downloaded into an Excel file Figure 6 1 Report of me...
Page 25: ...assword If you have multiple administrators it only resets the first one s account 2 It changes the IP settings to use DHCP 3 It removes your own system home page URL so that you can easily access the appliance by a new IP address The reset does not affect any other data including user profiles meeting logs scheduled meetings SSL certificate audio integration setting etc To reset the Asante SmartB...
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