Installation
Cisco TMS Extension for IBM Lotus Notes
– Installation and getting started guide
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10. If you have completed the Enable secure communication (Optional) section, select
Yes
for field
HTTPS
. If not, select
No
.
11. An additional option titled
Automatic Update
is displayed. Because of a known issue with Lotus
Notes, the Free/Busy information for booked resources is not handled by the
Room and
Resources Manager
. As a work around for this release, you can automatically refresh the
Free/Busy information after each booking event. This is enabled by default, but if you are
experiencing severe delays, consider turning off this option.
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12. Click
Save and Close
to save your changes to the document.
Configuring the Domino Rooms for Cisco TMS Systems
Each system that will be bookable through Lotus Notes must be represented as a Room within
Domino. This step must be done by the userID who was added to the Reservation Database with the
role of
create resource
completed in the previous section.
Note:
To get a consolidated list of all systems, open a web browser and enter the URL below. If you
only have one Application Integration License, you must perform this step from the Domino Server
itself. Substitute TMSADDRESS with the IP or DNS name of your Cisco TMS server.
http://[TMSAddress]/tms/external/booking/remotesetup/remotesetupservice.asmx?op-GetSystems
In the page that opens, click the Invoke button. This opens a page listing all the systems in Cisco
TMS along with their name and System IDs. Print or save this list as a reference for later steps in the
installation.
1. You must know the system ID of each system in Cisco TMS that you wish to integrate with Lotus.
This can be found on the View Settings page for each system in the System Navigator, or see the
above note.
2. Using Domino Administrator, open the resource reservation database by going to
File Menu >
Application
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> Open
and select the server on which the database was created and the database
as you named it in the notes.ini file.
3. At least one Site document must be defined. Sites affect how rooms are grouped in the Address
Book displayed in the Notes clients. Create a Site document by selecting
Sites
from the list and
clicking
New Site
.
4. Fill in the
Site Name
field with the desired name for example:
Washington DC Conference
Rooms
, then click the
Save and Close
button.
5. Create a resource for each Cisco TMS system you want to represent in Lotus Notes. Click the
New Resource
button and complete the appropriate fields:
a.
Name
– Name to be displayed in Notes for the room (Required)
b.
Site
– Site Document to associate this room to (Required)
c.
Description
– Optional description
d.
TMS-ID
– System ID associated with the device in Cisco TMS that this room represents
(Required)
e.
Capacity
– People capacity of the room
f.
Availability
– Time period during which this room will be shown as bookable in Notes.
g.
Owner restrictions
– Make sure this is set to
Autoprocessing
h.
List of names
– This must be set to the name of the TMS service user only.
i.
Owner’s name
– This must be set to the name of the TMS service user only.
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For an in depth description of this issue, please contact your local IBM representative. The issue is
reported to IBM Quality Engineering as SPR# MMQN6QWC6K
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In Notes 7.0.x this is called Database