Vcs Provisioning Server - Cisco TelePresence Administrator's Manual

Applications
Service Description
Phone The Phone books service provides the data that allows users to search for contacts within phone
books books. Access to phone books is controlled on a per user basis according to any access control lists
that have been defined (within Cisco TMS).
Devices The Devices service exchanges provisioning licensing information between the VCS and Cisco
TMS. Information is exchanged every 30 seconds — the VCS is provided with the current number
of free licenses available across the range of VCS clusters being managed by Cisco TMS, and the
VCS updates Cisco TMS with the status of provisioning licenses being used by this VCS (or VCS
cluster).
If the Devices service is not active, the VCS's Provisioning Server will not be able to provision any
devices.
The current status of the services is displayed on the
The VCS periodically polls the Cisco TMSPE services to ensure the data held on VCS is kept up to date.
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The polling interval can be defined for each service. In typical deployments you are recommended to use
the default settings which provide frequent (every 2 minutes) updates to FindMe and user provisioning
data, and daily updates to phone book data.
If you have a cluster of VCSs, only one of the cluster peers maintains the physical connection to Cisco
TMS. The data obtained from Cisco TMS is then shared between other peers in the cluster through the
VCS's cluster replication mechanism.
A full and immediate resynchronization of all data between the VCS and Cisco TMS can be triggered at any
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time by clicking Perform full synchronization (at the bottom of the of the
services page). Note that this will result in a temporary (a few seconds) lack of service on the VCS while
the data is deleted and fully refreshed. If you only need to ensure that all of the latest updates within Cisco
TMS have been supplied to the VCS then click Check for updates instead.
You are recommended to use Cisco TMS to make any changes to the Cisco TMSPE services' configuration
settings. You can configure the services on the VCS through the
page, but any changes made to the settings via this page will not be applied within Cisco TMS.
Using FindMe without Cisco TMS
If you use FindMe without TMS (known as "standalone FindMe"), then all FindMe account information is
stored and managed locally on the VCS. See

VCS Provisioning Server

The VCS Provisioning Server provides provisioning-related services to provisioned devices, using data
supplied by Cisco TMS through the
Device Provisioning option key is installed.
As from version X8.1, the VCS supports only the Cisco TelePresence Management Suite Provisioning
Extension (Cisco TMSPE) services to provide the VCS with provisioning and FindMe data. In this mode all
provisioning and FindMe data is managed and maintained exclusively within Cisco TMS.
Provisioning server status
Comprehensive status information can be found under the VCS's
> TMS Provisioning Extension
Cisco VCS Administrator Guide (X8.1.1)
TMS Provisioning Extension service status
FindMe Deployment Guide
Cisco TMS provisioning
services) menu options.
TMS Provisioning Extension
TMS Provisioning Extension services
for more information.
mechanism. The server only operates if the
(Status > Applications
Cisco TMS provisioning
page.
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