Overview
The Cisco Meeting Server Advanced course is an instructor-led, lab-based, hands-on offering by Cisco Learning Services. It covers the installation and configuration of a resilient and scalable Cisco Meeting Server installation.
Target Audience
This course is designed for technical professionals who need to know how to deploy and maintain Cisco Meeting Server for scalable and resilient deployments.
Targeted roles include:
- Channel partners and reseller engineers installing, configuring, and maintaining scalable and resilient deployments of Cisco Meeting Server
- Channel partners and reseller engineers providing presales support for scalable and resilient Cisco Meeting Server deployments
- Customer engineers supporting scalable and resilient Cisco Meeting Server deployments
Prerequisites
To fully benefit from this course, students should have the following prerequisite skills and knowledge:
- Attendance of Cisco Meeting Server Intermediate, or Cisco Acano Certified Expert 1 or equivalent knowledge
The first lab of the Cisco Meeting Server Advanced course is an assessment of the course prerequisites. Cisco reserves the right to move students to the next available Cisco Meeting Server Intermediate course if prerequisite knowledge is not in place.
Course Objectives
After completion of this course, students will understand...
- Cisco Meeting Server API commands
- Scalable and resilient deployments
- Customization
- Recording
Course Outline
Module 1: API Configuration
Lesson 1: Reviewing Cisco Meeting Server Intermediate
- Review the component parts of a Cisco Meeting Solution
- Review the configuration steps for a Cisco Meeting Solution
Lesson 2: Describing APIs
- Describe the purpose of APIs
- Describe the benefits of APIs
- Describe the types of APIs
- Describe the function of the GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE commands
- Describe how a user can interact with software using an API
- Download and install Chrome Postman
- Discuss other API software
- Download the Cisco Meeting Server API guide
- Describe the Cisco Meeting Server API structure
- Use Chrome Postman for information on calls and spaces with the GET command
- Use Chrome Postman to post a new call space with the POST command
- Use Chrome Postman to place changes in a space, including adding a member, with the PUT command
- Use Chrome Postman to delete a space with the DELETE command
- Create and modify a user profile and assign users
- Create and modify a dual-tone multifrequency (DTMF) profile and apply to a user profile
- Modify the interactive voice response (IVR), color scheme, and background
Module 2: Resilient and Scalable Deployments
Lesson 1: Planning a Resilient and Scalable Cisco Meeting Server Deployment
- Describe resilient server solutions
- Describe scalable server solutions
- Describe geographically dispersed configurations and GeoDNS
- Describe the Domain Name System (DNS) records required for a resilient and scalable solution
- Describe the certificate requirements for a resilient and scalable solution
​Lesson 2: Configuring a Database Cluster
- Describe the relationship between cluster master and cluster slaves in a database cluster
- Describe the certificate requirements for a secure database cluster
- Configure the certificates for a database cluster
- Configure a database cluster
- Describe the relationship between the Call Bridge and the Database
- Describe how cross-cluster spaces behave
- Configure certificates for Call Bridge clustering
- Describe the storage of configuration when entering with the API and the individual web interfaces for
- Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and Call Bridge clustering
- Configure a Call Bridge Cluster
- Connect XMPP server to multiple Call Bridges
- Describe the relationship between the XMPP server, Trunk and Load Balancer
- Configure certificates for multiple trunks and load balancers
- Configure multiple Trunks to multiple Load Balancers
- Describe the relationship between multiple Web Bridges and Call Bridges
- Describe internal and external DNS records support for both internal and external Web Bridges
- Configure certificates for multiple Web Bridges
- Configure multiple Web bridges
- Connect multiple Call Bridges to multiple Web Bridges
- Describe the relationship between multiple TURN servers and multiple Call Bridges
- Configure certificates for multiple TURN servers
- Configure multiple TURN servers
- Connect multiple Call Bridges to multiple TURN servers
- Describe the features of the recording capability
- Describe the software, hardware, and licensing requirements for recording
- Describe the DNS records
- Configure the Recorder
- Describe the relationship between multiple Recorders and multiple Call Bridges
- Configure a Call Bridge to use a Recorder
- Configure certificates for multiple Recorders servers
- Configure multiple Recorder servers
- Connect multiple Call Bridges to multiple Recorder servers
- Describe integration with Cisco TelePresence©_
- Video Communication Server (VCS) or Cisco Unified
- Communications Manager and multiple Call Bridges
- Describe integration with Cisco Expressway
- technology and multiple Call Bridges
- Describe integration with Microsoft Skype for Business and multiple Call Bridges
- Describe integration with Cisco TelePresence Management Suite and multiple Call Bridges
Module 3: Additional Features
Lesson 1: Deploying an H.323 Gateway
- Describe the Cisco preferred architecture for H.323 and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) interoperability
- Describe the functionality of the Cisco Meeting Server H.323 gateway
- Describe the configuration the Cisco Meeting Server H.323 gateway
- Describe the purpose of the multitenancy capabilities
- Describe the options for multitenancy capabilities on the Cisco Meeting Server
- Describe the options available to customize Cisco Meeting Apps
- Describe the license keys required for customization
- Describe the Web Server requirements for customization
- Describe the options available to customize recorded messaging
- Describe the customization options available for invitation text
- Lab 1: Single-Server Deployment
- Lab 2: API Introduction
- Lab 3: Customization
- Lab 4: Database Cluster Configuration
- Lab 5: Call Bridge Cluster Configuration
- Lab 6: Multiple-Trunk and Load-Balancer Configuration
- Lab 7: Multiple Web Bridge Configuration
- Lab 8: Multiple TURN Server Configuration
- Lab 9: Multiple Recorder Configuration
- Lab10: Integrating with VCS and Microsoft Skype for Business in a Multiple Call Bridge Installation