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TANDBERG
VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS SERVER
ADMINISTRATOR GUIDE
Introduction
Getting started
Overview and
status
System
configuration
VCS
configuration
Zones and
neighbors
Call
processing
Bandwidth
control
Firewall
traversal
Appendices
Applications
Maintenance
System configuration
Login page
The
Login page
page allows you to specify a message and image that will appear to users
attempting to log in to the VCS.
To go to the
Login page
page:
System configuration > Login page
•
This feature is not configurable using the CLI.
The welcome message
title
and
text
will appear to administrators when attempting to log in using
the CLI, and to FindMe users and administrators when attempting to log in using the web interface.
The
Image
will appear to FindMe users and administrators when attempting to log in using the web
interface.
The
SNMP
page allows you to configure the VCS’s SNMP settings:
To go to the SNMP page:
System configuration > SNMP
•
To configure SNMP settings using the CLI:
xConfiguration SNM
•
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You must save your changes and restart the system for any changes to take effect.
About SNMP
Tools such as TANDBERG Management Suite (TMS) or HP OpenView may act as SNMP Network
Management Systems (NMS). They allow you to monitor your network devices, including the VCS,
for conditions that might require administrative attention.
The VCS supports the most basic MIB-II tree (.1.3.6.1.2.1) as defined in
RFC 1213 [23]
. The
information made available by the VCS includes the following:
system uptime
•
system name
•
location
•
contact
•
interfaces
•
disk space, memory, and other machine-specific statistics.
•
To allow the VCS to be monitored by an SNMP NMS (including TMS), you must
Enable
SNMP on
the VCS and provide the name of the
SNMP community
within which it resides. You may optionally
provide the name of a
System contact
and the physical
Location
of the system for reference by
administrators when following up on queries.
By default, SNMP is
Disabled
with a
SNMP community name
of
public
.
!
SNMP is disabled by default because of the potentially sensitive nature of the information
involved. Do not enable SNMP on a VCS on the public internet or in any other environment
where you do not want to expose internal system information.
The VCS does not support SNMP traps or SNMP sets, therefore it cannot be managed using
SNMP.
SNMP
About external managers
An external manager is a remote system,
such as the TANDBERG Management Suite
(TMS), used to monitor events occurring on the
VCS, for example call attempts, connections
and disconnections. The use of an external
manager is optional.
Configuration
The
External manager
page allows you to
configure the VCS's external manager settings.
To go to the
External manager
page:
System configuration > External manager
•
To configure external manager settings using
the CLI:
xConfiguration ExternalManage
•
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The options are:
Address and path
In order to use an external manager, you must
configure the VCS with the IP address or host
name and path of the external manager to be
used.
If you are using TMS as your external manager,
use the default path of
tms/public/external/management/
SystemManagementService.asmx
.
Protocol
This setting allows you to determine whether
communications with the external manager are
over
HTTP
or
HTTPS
.
Certificate verification mode
You may also require that the VCS verifies
the certificate presented by the external
manager by selecting a
Certificate verification
mode
of
On
. If you do this, you must also add
the certificate of the issuer of the external
manager's certificate to the file containing the
VCS's trusted CA certificates. This is done from
the
Security
page (
Maintenance > Security
).
External manager
