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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
Zones
Once you have created a new zone on the local VCS you must configure it appropriately. For
traversal server zones, traversal client zones and neighbor zones this will include providing
information about the neighbor system such as IP address and ports.
Zones are configured from the
Edit zone
page. You will be taken to this page automatically upon
creation of a new zone. To access this page for an existing zone:
Go to
1.
the
Zones
page (
VCS configuration > Zones
).
Click
2.
View/Edit
or the name of the zone you wish to configure.
To configure zones using the CLI:
xConfiguration Zones Zone [1..200
•
]
The sections that follow describe the specific configuration options available for each zone type.
Each zone will always have the following configuration options available:
Hop count
The hop count is the number of times a request will be forwarded to a neighbor gatekeeper or proxy
(see
Hop counts
for more information). This field specifies the hop count to be used when sending
an alias search request to this particular zone.
If the search request was received from another zone and already has a hop count
assigned, the lower of the two values will be used.
Match 1 - Match 5
The
Match
sections allow you to configure when and how search requests will be sent to this zone,
and also whether any transforms will be applied to aliases being searched for in this zone. These
features are described in full in the section
Zone searching and transforming
.
You can test whether a pattern will match a particular alias by using the
Check pattern
page
(
Maintenance > Tools > Check pattern
).
Adding zones
In order to neighbor with another system (e.g. another VCS or gatekeeper), create a connection over
a firewall to a traversal server or traversal client, or create an ENUM or DNS zone, you must add a
new zone on the local VCS. When adding a new zone you will be asked to specify its
Type
; this will
allow you to select the nature of the connection and will determine which configuration options will
then be available.
The
Zones
page lists all the zones that have been configured on the VCS, and allows you to create,
edit and delete zones.
To add a new zone:
Go to the
1.
Zones
page:
VCS configuration > Zones.
Click
2.
New
.
You will be taken to the
Create zone
page.
Enter a
3.
Name
and select a
Type
(see below for descriptions of these options).
Click
4.
Create zone
.
The zone will be saved and you will be taken to the
Edit zone
page, where you can configure the
zone options.
To add a new zone using the CLI:
xCommand ZoneAd
•
d
Name
The name acts as a unique identifier, allowing you to distinguish between zones of the same type.
Type
The options are:
Neighbor
: the new zone will be a connection to a neighbor of the local VCS.
Traversal client
: the local VCS is a traversal client of the system being connected to using the new
zone, and there is a firewall between the two.
Traversal server
: the local VCS is a traversal server for the system being connected to using the
new zone, and there is a firewall between the two.
ENUM
: the new zone contains endpoints discoverable by ENUM lookup.
DNS
: the new zone contains endpoints discoverable by DNS lookup.
Once the zone has been created, the
Type
cannot be changed.
Configuring zones - common options
