User Guide for Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager Release 5.5
Managing Meetings in Resource Manager

Table Of Contents

Managing Meetings in Resource Manager

Viewing Your Meetings

Viewing the Creation Status of Your Meetings

Searching for a Meeting

Monitoring a Meeting

Generating Reports

Responding to a Meeting Invitation

Modifying Upcoming Meetings

Deleting Your Meeting History

Defining the Duration of the Meeting History Display


Managing Meetings in Resource Manager


Viewing Your Meetings

Viewing the Creation Status of Your Meetings

Searching for a Meeting

Monitoring a Meeting

Generating Reports

Responding to a Meeting Invitation

Modifying Upcoming Meetings

Deleting Your Meeting History

Defining the Duration of the Meeting History Display

Viewing Your Meetings

Procedure


Step 1 Click My Meetings in the sidebar menu.

Step 2 Click Current to see all your meetings that are currently in progress.

Step 3 Click Upcoming to see all your meetings that have not yet started.

Step 4 Click History to see all your meetings that have already finished.

Only meetings that meet at least one of the following criteria are displayed:

You are a participant in the meeting.

You are the owner of a virtual room used in the meeting.

You are the organizer of the meeting.

If you do not get the expected result when you click History, contact your system administrator.


Viewing the Creation Status of Your Meetings

Procedure


Step 1 Click My Meetings in the sidebar menu.

Step 2 Click Current to see all your meetings that are currently in progress.

Step 3 Click Upcoming to see all your meetings that have not yet started.

Step 4 Click History to see all your meetings that have already finished.

The creation status of each of the displayed meetings is shown in the Status column.

If the status column is colored green, the meeting was successfully created and all meeting participants are in the meeting.

If the status column is colored red, Resource Manager has failed to create the meeting.

Step 5 To view the Reason Failed error message, click the red status indicator, and then click Retry to resend the meeting information to the MCU.


Searching for a Meeting

Procedure


Step 1 Click My Meetings in the sidebar menu.

Step 2 Click Current, Upcoming or History, as required.

Step 3 Perform any of the following:

Enter the partial or complete subject of the meeting in the Subject field.

If any part of the meeting subject matches the search string, the meeting record is displayed in the search results.

Enter the E.164 number of an attending terminal in the E164 field.

If any part of the meeting subject matches the search string, the meeting record is displayed in the search results.

Click the calendar icon in the From field, and select a date and time in the window that opens.

Meetings scheduled after the selected time are listed.

Click the calendar icon in the To field, and select a date and time in the window that opens.

Meetings scheduled before the selected time are listed.

Enter the partial or complete meeting ID in the Meeting ID field.

If any part of the meeting ID matches the search string, the meeting record is displayed in the search results.

Step 4 Click Search.

Search results are listed.

Step 5 To return to the complete list of meetings, clear each of the fields.

Step 6 Click Search.


Monitoring a Meeting

You can monitor and moderate a meeting in which you are a participant or the organizer via the In-Meeting Control interface for the meeting.

Procedure


Step 1 Click My Meetings in the sidebar menu.

Step 2 Click Current.

Step 3 Click the link in the Subject field for the meeting you want to monitor.

Step 4 Enter the moderator PIN if one is used for this meeting.

Step 5 Click the Take Control icon.

The In-meeting Control interface is not available for meetings in which you are not a participant or the organizer.


Related Topics

Moderating Meetings in Resource Manager, page 4-1

Generating Reports

On the Upcoming and History tabs, you can generate a report in .csv format which shows all meetings scheduled between selected dates (as specified in the To and From fields). Once you have saved a report, you can view it with Microsoft Excel.

Procedure


Step 1 Click My Meetings in the sidebar menu.

Step 2 Click Upcoming or History, as required.

Step 3 Click the calendar icon in the From and To fields to choose a start and end date for information in the generated report.

Step 4 Click Generate Report.

Table 3-1 describes the information categories that are included in a generated report.

Table 3-1 Generated Report Information Categories 

Category
Description

Virtual Meeting ID

Dialable meeting ID used by users to access a specific meeting.

Master Meeting ID

Corresponds to a physical meeting ID on the master MCU.

Slave Meeting ID

Corresponds to a physical meeting ID on the slave MCU.

Cisco Unified Videoconferencing Manager Meeting ID

Internal database ID for the meeting.

Subject

Corresponds to Subject field in Meeting Scheduling.

Meeting Type

Corresponds to the Meeting Type field in Meeting Scheduling. The name of the meeting type is displayed.

Reference Code

Corresponds to the Reference Code field in Meeting Scheduling.

Start Time

Corresponds to the Start Time field in Meeting Scheduling.

Duration

Corresponds to the Duration field in the Meeting Scheduling.

Meeting Room

Meeting room used for scheduling a meeting.

Organizer Name

Corresponds to the Organizer field in Meeting Scheduling.

Service Prefix

MCU service prefix used for the meeting.

Services

MCU service used for the meeting.

MCU Name(s)

MCU(s) used for the meeting. For cascaded meetings, "(master)" appears after the MCU name.

Terminals

Number of terminals used for the meeting.

Number of Extra IP Ports Reserved

Corresponds to the Reserve additional ports field in Meeting Scheduling.

Dial-in IP Terminals

Number of dial-in IP terminals.

Dial-out IP Terminals

Number of dial-out IP terminals.

Dial-in ISDN Terminals

Number of dial-in PSTN/ISDN terminals.

Dial-out ISDN Terminals

Number of dial-out PSTN/ISDN terminals.

Gateway List

Gateways used for the meeting.

Device Failure Cause (Device Name, IP Failure, Cause)

Any failure on a network device such as an MCU or gateway.

Attendee Failure Cause (Name, Number, ISDN, Dial-in, Total Time, Failing Attempts, Last Failure Cause)

Any failures on attending terminals.


Step 5 Click Save to save the report to a location of your choice.


Responding to a Meeting Invitation

Procedure


Step 1 Click My Meetings in the sidebar menu.

Step 2 Click Upcoming.

Step 3 A red flag next to the subject of an upcoming meeting indicates that you have not responded to a meeting invitation sent by the meeting organizer. The mechanism is similar to Outlook Scheduling.

If you see a red flag, click the subject link to open the meeting details.

Step 4 Click Accept to accept the meeting.

The red flag is removed.

Step 5 Click Tentative to tentatively accept the meeting.

You can enter a message in your meeting invitation response.

An e-mail response is sent to the meeting organizer containing your response.

The red flag is still displayed next to the meeting entry in the My Meetings screen.

Step 6 Click Decline to decline the meeting.

You can enter a message in your meeting invitation response.

An e-mail response is sent to the meeting organizer containing your response.

The meeting can no longer be accessed from the My Meetings screen.

The meeting organizer can view the meeting summary screen.

The meeting organizer can check the attendees list to see who will attend the meeting.

Attendees who decline the meeting invitation are automatically removed from the meeting summary.


Modifying Upcoming Meetings

You can reschedule the meeting, change the meeting parameters, or delete the meeting request.

For more information about specific fields, see Chapter 2, "Scheduling Meetings in Resource Manager".

Procedure


Step 1 Click My Meetings in the sidebar menu.

Step 2 Click Upcoming.

Step 3 Click the subject of the meeting you want to modify in the In-meeting Control interface.

The In-meeting Control interface is not available for meetings in which you are not a participant or the organizer.

Step 4 Enter the required information.


Deleting Your Meeting History

All past meetings are deleted from the History tab.

Deleted meetings appear in billing and reporting statements.

History tab search results do not include deleted meetings.

Procedure


Step 1 Click My Meetings in the sidebar menu.

Step 2 Click History.

Step 3 Click Delete History.


Defining the Duration of the Meeting History Display

Procedure


Step 1 Click My Profile in the sidebar menu.

Step 2 Click My Preferences.

Step 3 Check Delete meeting history items older than n days and enter the required number of days.