This one and one-half hour instructor-led session will provide the attendees with the skills needed to perform "back-office" scheduling, user profile management, report generation and capacity planning tasks. The Administrator topics covered in this session include: the MeetingTime or Meeting Manager client application and its usage; the eight mandatory elements that comprise a user profile; the MeetingTime application to create and modify a user or group profile; the mechanism to bulk import user profiles from other databases; the MeetingTime application to verify the configuration settings for a previously scheduled meeting; the timers associated with scheduled meetings; and scheduling a meeting using a groupware application, such as Outlook.

Additional topics for MeetingPlace Analysts include: an overview of the MeetingPlace system architecture; the different types of ports, such as floater and contingency, and their utilization during a MeetingPlace conference; generation of common reports; use of the MeetingTime or Meeting Manager application to display the capacity management path; and use of capacity management displays for trend identification in MeetingPlace system utilization.

Who should attend:

This course is intended for staff members that must administer the Cisco MeetingPlace system and for team members that are responsible for monitoring and capacity planning for the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace audio/video/web-conferencing solution.

Course Topics:

System Administrator Responsibilities

• Maintain system configuration
• Establish Backup procedures
• Create system reports

System Administrator Tools

• MeetingPlace Application Servers Administration Center
• MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Servers Administration Center
• MeetingPlace Conference Manager

System Configuration

• Understanding meeting timers
• Scheduling Guard Times

Manage End User Profiles

• MeetingPlace access options
• Users and groups
• Configuration and Profile Demonstration

System Maintenance

• Using Administration Center
• Importing profiles
• System Maintenance Demonstration

Reports

• Categories of reports
• Raw meeting details

Capacity Management

• Daily Analysis Charts
• Monthly Trending
• Port utilization
• Calculating "No Show" percentages
• Billback procedures