Configuration topics
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SNMP Community Name – This is a comma separated list of common SNMP strings that Cisco
TMS uses when discovering and adding systems. If you use a customized SNMP Community
Name on your existing systems, be sure to add it to this list.
E-mail Addresses to Receive System… - Enter your email address here so that Cisco TMS can
send you notifications about rogue endpoints, system event failures, and for other administrative
messages. Multiple email addresses can be entered separated by commas.
Automatic System Discovery – By default this setting is enabled, automatically adds the
systems that Cisco TMS discovers to a folder in System Navigator, and configures their
management properties to work with Cisco TMS. This makes Cisco TMS very simple to set up.
Cisco TMS configures the systems with basic settings from the ‘Discovered Systems Template’.
Later, if there are default settings you wish all new systems to have, update that template.
Active Directory – These settings allow Cisco TMS to leverage Active Directory for its user and
group settings. If the Cisco TMS server is a member of a domain, Cisco TelePresence
recommends that you enable these settings by entering a valid Windows domain account. The
account does not need to be an administrator account, just a normal user account. If Lookup
User Information… is enabled, when a new user profile is created, Cisco TMS automatically
populates as many of the fields in the user profile as possible from Active Directory. Allow AD
Groups simplifies Cisco TMS Groups by allowing you to use groups from Active Directory as
Cisco TMS user groups which automates which Cisco TMS groups a user belongs to. See the
Cisco TMS Administrator Guide
for further details on Active Directory Groups.
Scan SNMP Capable Systems to Allow… - This setting allows Cisco TMS to detect when a
system goes offline more quickly. Cisco TelePresence recommends that you enable this setting.
SNMP Broadcast/MultiCast Address(es) – The network addresses that were configured in the
Cisco TMS installer are displayed. Cisco TMS sends an SNMP query to these addresses to find
new systems. If your network spans multiple networks, add the broadcast address for each one,
separated by commas to allow Cisco TMS to find systems automatically. Do not worry if all the
networks are not represented here because systems can also be added manually and through
systems contacting Cisco TMS.
Enforce Management Settings… - This setting is enabled by default and is recommended to
ensure that systems are properly configured to point to your Cisco TMS server.
Advanced Network Settings
To account for diverse network configurations, Cisco TMS supports the notion of two networks
that can access Cisco TMS. This is used to account for a remote network, such as one outside
the organization firewall or proxy that you may have systems on and want to manage
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settings are critical because Cisco TMS must know its own network addresses to properly
configure systems to communicate back to Cisco TMS.
The ‘local’ or LAN network is normally synonymous with your organization’s internal network. The
‘public’ network is a second network that can access Cisco TMS and is generally used to
represent the public internet or a network outside the organization firewall. Each system added in
Cisco TMS has a Connectivity parameter that you use to tell Cisco TMS which network identity to
use when communicating with that system. The public network addresses are used always used
when using the SOHO/Behind Firewall support in Cisco TMS.
TMS Server IPv4/IPv6 Addresses – These addresses were configured during installation and
are the IP addresses used to reach your Cisco TMS Server
TMS Server Fully Qualified Host Name - Internal LAN – The fully qualified DNS hostname used
to access your Cisco TMS Server from the internal, or local, network. This setting will be used
with systems that support DNS and must be configured correctly. If the server has no hostname
that is usable, enter the IP address that systems would use to reach Cisco TMS.
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TMS is still only connected to one physical LAN port and only one IP Address. TMS does not support
multihomed networking. The public hostname used will resolve to a IP forwarded to the IP address of the TMS
server.
