Poly RealPresence CloudAXIS Suite Administrator Guide

ADMINISTRATORS’ GUIDE

RealPresence

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CloudAXIS

™

Suite

Software 1.1 | April 2013 | 3725-03273-001 Rev A

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Contents

About This Guide ................................................................................... v

Who Should Read This Guide? ............................................................................................ v

Conventions Used in This Guide .......................................................................................... v

How This Guide is Organized ........................................................................................... viii

Chapter 1: Getting Started ..................................................................... 1

Understanding the Polycom RealPresence Platform ........................................................... 1

Understanding the Minimum Requirements ........................................................................ 4

Learning the Port Usage ..................................................................................................... 6

Completing the Setup Worksheets ...................................................................................... 8

Chapter 2: Deploying and Configuring the Services Portal and

Experience Portal ................................................................................. 18

Deploying the Services Portal and Experience Portal Packages ........................................18

Accessing the Services Portal ............................................................................................19

Accessing the Experience Portal........................................................................................21

Configuring the Services Portal ..........................................................................................22

Configuring the Experience Portal ......................................................................................42

Chapter 3: Creating and Managing User Accounts ........................... 63

Understanding Account Roles ............................................................................................63

Creating Accounts .............................................................................................................65

Editing Accounts ................................................................................................................69

Deleting Accounts ..............................................................................................................73

Changing Your Password ..................................................................................................74

Resetting a Password ........................................................................................................75

Chapter 4: Providing Secure Guest Access ....................................... 78

Securing SIP Guest Access ...............................................................................................78

Securing Web Access ........................................................................................................79

Chapter 5: Troubleshooting the Services Portal ............................... 80

User Cannot Create Meetings ............................................................................................80

User Cannot Launch the Welcome Screen ........................................................................80

Configured Components are Not Responding ....................................................................81

Super Admins and Admins Cannot Add an Active Directory User ......................................81

User Cannot Send Email Notifications ...............................................................................81

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User Receives “Unable to Create a Conference with a Personal VMR” Message ..............81

User Receives “External Server Not Set” Message ............................................................81

Obtaining Services Portal Log Files ...................................................................................81

Appendix A: Creating a Google Talk™ App ....................................... 84

Appendix B: Creating a Facebook App .............................................. 92

Appendix C: Impact of DMA Factory Conference Settings on the

Operation of the CloudAXIS Web Client ............................................. 93

Appendix D: Third-Party Software ...................................................... 98

Appendix E: End User License Agreement ...................................... 125

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About This Guide

This Administrators’ Guide uses a number of conventions that help you to understand

information and perform tasks.

Who Should Read This Guide?

System administrators and network engineers should read this guide to learn how properly to

set up the Services Portal. This guide describes administration-level tasks and is not intended

for end users.

Conventions Used in This Guide

This admin guide contains terms, graphical elements, and a few typographic conventions.

Familiarizing yourself with these terms, elements, and conventions will help you perform the

admin tasks

Terms and Writing Conventions

As you read this guide, you will notice the same terms and conventions are used repeatedly.

Make sure you familiarize yourself with these terms and conventions so you understand how to

perform administration tasks.

 Apache Tomcat An open source web server and application container to run the

Services Portal application.

 Experience Portal The meeting conference interface.

 Services Portal The backend for scheduling meetings, adding users, and adding

contacts.

 NGINX An HTTP Server used to render static content and delegate requests to Apache

Tomcat.

 FQDN Fully qualified domain name. Example of an FQDN: dma.example.com

 Network Time Protocol Server (NTP) The NTP server sets the time and date settings

for Services Portal

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 VMR Virtual Meeting Rooms (VMR) A virtual meeting space that users and endpoints

can join to participate in a multi-party videoconference. VMRs are identified and

addressed by numeric IDs. A VMR may be personal, persistent, or temporary. A personal

VMR is assigned for the use of a single person to host their meetings, or shared/public. A

persistent VMR remains in existence indefitnitely and can be used for different individual

meeting events over time. A VMR is created for a specific meeting or time period and is

deleted once the meeting or time period has ended. Also see the Polycom DMA 7000

System Operations Guide on the Polycom Support site.

 VMR Prefix Specifying a VMR prefix value allows the Services Portal and Experience

Portal to know where to direct requests concerning a particular VMR Id. For example, if

DMA-1 had the dialing prefix specified as “1” and DMA-2 had no dialing prefix specified,

all portal requests concerning VMRs with Id “1xxxx” would be directed to DMA-1 and

requests concerning any other VMR Id would be directed to DMA-2.

Information Elements

The following icons are used to alert you to various types of important information in this guide:

Icons Used in this Guide

Name

Icon

Description

Note

The Note icon highlights information of interest or important information

needed to be successful in accomplishing a procedure or to understand a

concept.

Administrator

Tip

The Administrator Tip icon highlights techniques, shortcuts, or productivity

related tips.

Caution

The Caution icon highlights information you need to know to avoid a

hazard that could potentially impact device performance, application

functionality, or successful feature configuration.

Warning

The Warning icon highlights an action you must perform (or avoid) to

prevent issues that may cause you to lose information or your

configuration setup, and/or affect phone or network performance.

Web Info

The Web Info icon highlights supplementary information available online

such as documents or downloads on support.polycom.com or other

locations.

Timesaver

The Timesaver icon highlights a faster or alternative method for

accomplishing a method or operation.

Power Tip

The Power Tip icon highlights faster, alternative procedures for advanced

administrators already familiar with the techniques being discussed.

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Name

Icon

Description

Troubleshooti

ng

The Troubleshooting icon highlights information that may help you solve a

relevant problem or to refer you to other relevant troubleshooting

resources.

Settings

The Settings icon highlights settings you may need to choose for a specific

behavior, to enable a specific feature, or to access customization options.

A few typographic conventions, listed next, are used in this guide to distinguish types of in-text

information.

Typographic Conventions

Convention

Description

Bold

Highlights interface items such as menus, soft keys, file names, and

directories. Also used to represent menu selections and text entry to the

phone.

Italics

Used to emphasize text, to show example values or inputs, and to show

titles of reference documents available from the Polycom Support Web

site and other reference sites.

Underlined Blue

Used for URL links to external Web pages or documents. If you click on

text in this style, you will be linked to an external document or Web page.

Blue Text

Used for cross references to other sections within this document. If you

click on text in this style, you will be taken to another part of this

document.

Fixed-width-font

Used for code fragments and parameter names.

This guide also uses a few writing conventions to distinguish conditional information.

Writing Conventions

Convention

Description

Indicates that you must enter information specific to your installation,

phone, or network. For example, when you see <MACaddress>, enter

your phone’s 12-digit MAC address. If you see <installed-directory>, enter

the path to your installation directory.

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Convention

Description

>

Indicates that you need to select an item from a menu. For example,

Settings > Basic indicates that you need to select Basic from the

Settings menu.

parameter.*

Used for configuration parameters. If you see a parameter name in the

form parameter.* , the text is referring to all parameters beginning with

parameter.

How This Guide is Organized

This guide is organized into four chapters:

 Chapter 1: Getting Started Gives you a brief overview of the Services Portal and

Experience Portal, the deployment prerequisites, and Setup Worksheets to assist you with

configuring the Services Portal and Experience Portal.

 Chapter 2: Deploying and Configuring the Services Portal and Experience Portal

Shows you how to deploy and configure the Services Portal and Experience Portal.

 Chapter 3: Creating and Managing User Accounts Shows you how to create, edit,

and delete Active Directory and local user accounts.

 Chapter 4: Providing Secure Guest Access Gives you suggestions for enabling

secure access to users located outside of your organization’s firewall.

 Chapter 5: Troubleshooting the Services Portal Gives you troubleshooting

procedures to resolve errors experienced by users.

 Appendix A: Creating a Google Talk™ App Shows you how to create a Google

Talk™ app for enabling access to Google Talk™ contacts from the Experience Portal.

 Appendix B: Creating a Facebook App Shows you how to create a Facebook app for

enabling access to Facebook contacts from the Experience Portal.

 Appendix C: DMA Factory Conference Template Settings Impact on the Operation

of the CloudAXIS Web Client Uses a table to show you how DMA factory conference

template settings impact CloudAXIS web client behavior.

 Appendix D: Third-Party Software Gives you the license details for third-party software

mentioned in this guide.

 Appendix E: End-User License Agreement Gives you the Polycom end-user license

agreement details.

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Chapter 1: Getting Started

The CloudAXIS Suite extends and enhances the Polycom® RealPresence® Platform by

providing access to a shared meeting and collaboration experience that can include users from

the hosting business and guests from outside the business. The key components of the suite

are two virtualized server components deployed by the business: the Services Portal and the

Experience Portal.

The Services Portal enables users to create and participate in online video conference

meetings. Users create meetings by logging into the Services Portal, selecting the type of

meeting they want to create, setting the meeting parameters, and entering a list of participants

to invite. The Services Portal also provides administrative capabilities for creating and managing

users and for configuring the components that enable the online video conference meetings.

The Experience Portal provides the meeting interface, enabling users to interact with features

such as content share, group chat, and privacy settings. This guide shows you how to deploy

and configure the Services Portal and Experience Portal packages and create and manage user

accounts.

This chapter gives you an overview of the RealPresence Platform, lists the deployment

requirements for the Services Portal and Experience Portal, and provides worksheets to

complete before starting the deployment and configuration. When you are ready to deploy and

configure the Services Portal, see Deploying and Configuring the Services Portal and

Experience Portal.

This chapter is organized as follows:

 Understanding the Polycom RealPresence Platform

 Understanding the Minimum Requirements

 Learning the Port Usage

 Completing the Setup Worksheets

Understanding the Polycom RealPresence Platform

The Polycom RealPresence Platform is a suite of products used to enable and enhance

standards-based videoconference collaboration between hardware and software endpoints from

Polycom and optionally other vendors.

In this implementation, it may include one or more of the components listed in the following

table.

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Table 1: RealPresence Platform Components

Required or Optional

Polycom Platform Component

Purpose

Required

Distributed Media Application™ (DMA)

Signaling, call control, and

bridge virtualization.

Required

RealPresence Collaboration Server™

MCU for hosting conferences.

Note that an external MCU can

be used as well, which enables

a connection directly to the

DMA.

Optional

RealPresence Resource Manager

Provisioning and managing

endpoints

Optional

RealPresence Access Director™ solution*

Firewall traversal

Optional

RSS™ recording and streaming server

Media recording

*An Acme Packet Net-Net Enterprise Session Director may alternately be used to secure firewall

traversal.

The Services and Experience Portals interoperate with the RealPresence Platform components

along with the following standard IT infrastructure elements that the deploying organization

should provide:

 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Allows the portals to obtain their IP

addresses.

 Active Directory Server (LDAP) Enables integration with enterprise Active Directory

servers for user management and authentication.

 Simple Mail Transport Protocol Server (SMTP) Enables sending email meeting

invitations and other notifications to users including login information and password

reset/updates.

 HTTP Reverse Proxy Server Provides web clients with secure access to the

CloudAXIS portals from outside the organizational firewall. For best results, a proxy server

should be used that supports the Web Sockets protocol (RFC 6455).

Note: Diagram Legend

The components in the following diagram are specified as follows:

 CloudAXIS Components Identified by light blue.

 Third-Party Components Identified by orange.

 RealPresence Components Identified by bright red.

 End-Points Identified by dark red.

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Figure 1: Polycom RealPresence Platform

The RealPresence Platform components work with the CloudAXIS Suite to enable users to

create and participate in video conference meetings accessed from a web browser or other

hardware and software video endpoints, including mobile devices running the Polycom

RealPresence Mobile application. The meetings are scheduled in the Services Portal and run in

the Experience Portal. The Services Portal and Experience Portal run on one or more VMware

ESXi 5.x hosts. Scheduling a meeting in the Services Portal requires user or admin account

access (see Understanding Account Roles). Participating in meetings, however, only requires

access to a URL link sent in an email or instant message and a downloaded plug-in.

Users may be added to the Services Portal locally or through an integration with an enterprise

Active Directory (LDAP) server. If LDAP is configured, all enterprise users are allowed to use

their network credentials to access and host meetings on the Services Portal and to log into the

Experience Portal..

To create a scheduled meeting, users log in to the Services Portal, select their meeting options,

list the participants they want to invite, and then select the Schedule option. The Services Portal

then contacts the DMA system to create a Virtual Meeting Room (VMR) on an MCU for all

participants to join and an SMTP server sends out email notifications to each invited participant.

The invitation contains a URL, but can also contain information for SIP, H.323, and ISDN

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access. When the meeting takes place, the DMA system validates the VMR and routes the call

to the destination RealPresence Collaboration Server.

When a user creates a meeting that starts immediately (ad-hoc), the user’s Experience Portal

launches and enables the user to begin inviting participants. The participants may be invited

from an aggregated list of the meeting creator’s Facebook, Google Talk™, and/or Skype™

contacts. Accessing Facebook, Google Talk™, and/or Skype™ contacts requires the Services

Portal administrator to enable and provision app-user credentials. Then, the user downloads

and installs a social plug-in to enable social integration by performing the following:

 Google Talk™ Log into Google Talk™ service via the Experience Portal.

 Facebook Log into Facebook service via the Experience Portal.

 Skype™ Run the Skype™ software, log in to the Skype™ service via the Skype™

software, instruct the Portal to integrate with the Skype™ session and allow that

integration in the Skype™ client.

All of the meeting creator’s contacts that are currently online populate the contacts list in the

Experience Portal. When a contact is selected, a URL is sent to the contact on that particular

social IM. The invited participants click the URL or paste it in to their browser to gain access to

the meeting.

If a Polycom RSS server has been configured for the environment hosting the meeting, the

creator of the meeting may select the record meeting option, which records all aspects of the

meeting including all video streams, audio streams, and shared content.

The Services Portal and Experience Portal are each packaged in an .OVA file and must be

deployed on VMware ESXi hosts using vSphere tools. For example, VMware vCenter using the

vSphere client. Before deployment, be sure all the minimum requirements are met as outlined in

the next section.

Understanding the Minimum Requirements

Before deploying the Services Portal and Experience Portal, you must complete the setup

worksheets and meet the requirements listed in Table 2. To complete the setup worksheets, see

Completing the Setup Worksheet.

Table 2: Minimum Requirements

Component

Description

RealPresence Platform

Functioning RealPresence Platform with DMA and sufficient MCU

capacity to meet your requirements. For more info, please see

Understanding the Polycom RealPresence Platform.

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Component

Description

.OVA

 Latest Experience Portal .OVA file, downloaded to your local

machine from the Polycom support site.

 Latest Services Portal .OVA file, downloaded to your local

machine from the Polycom support site.

One or more ESXi hosts

Must be version 5.0 or higher.

Using a vSphere client, you must be able to access and administer

your VMware ESXi hosts either directly or via a vCenter controlling

the hosts.

VMware vSphere vCenter

controller

Optional

Dynamic Host Configuration

Protocol (DHCP)

Allows the portals to obtain their IP addresses.

LDAP Server

(Optional) Enables Enterprise user’s authentication using their

network credentials. Note that the Services Portal currently supports

integration with only Microsoft Active Directory.

This feature also enables administrators to import Enterprise LDAP

server users. The administrator can edit the imported user’s role or

set the user status as inactive. For information on user roles, see

Understanding Account Roles. For information on changing

imported user accounts, see Editing Accounts Created from the

Active Directory.

SMTP Server

Enables the Services Portal to deliver email meeting invites and

other notifications such as user onboarding.

Edge Proxy

If providing access to external guests, a functioning firewall/NAT

traversal element such as RealPresence Access Director or. Acme

Packet Net-Net Enterprise Session Director is required (see

Understanding the Polycom RealPresence Platform). This element

should be provisioned to allow SIP guest access (required) and

H.323 access (optional) to your DMA and MCUs.

HTTP Reverse Proxy

If providing access to external guests, a functioning HTTP reverse

proxy is required. This element should be provisioned to allow

HTTPS and web socket access to the Experience Portal and HTTPS

access to the Services Portal (optional).

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Minimum Server Requirements

The Services Portal and Experience Portal in the Polycom® RealPresence® CloudAXIS™ Suite

are deployed as two virtual machine instances (one for the Services Portal and one for the

Experience Portal). Each instance must meet the requirements in the following table.

Table 3: Server Components per VM Instance

Component

Description

CPU

Each instance must be hosted on a physical CPU with the following

clock-speed characteristics:

 >=2.0 Ghz (Intel Xeon E5 Series or better CPU)

 >=2.5 Ghz (Intel Xeon 5500 Series or better CPU)

Virtual Cores

Each instance must have 8 virtual cores.

RAM

8 GB

Accessible Storage

100 GB

Learning the Port Usage

This section lists the ports used to ensure successful network traversal for the Services Portal.

Getting Started

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Figure 2: Port Usage Diagram

Table 4: Port Usage Inbound

Protocol/Function

Component

Ports

HTTP/HTTPS

To provide access to the UI and

REST APIs.

80 is enabled but redirects to

443.

Table 5: Port Usage Outbound

Protocol/Function

Component

Ports

SMTP

Between the Services Portal and

SMTP server

 25 for non-secure

(SMTP).

 587/465 for secure

(SMTP-S).

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Protocol/Function

Component

Ports

LDAP

Between the Services Portal and

LDAP

 389 for non-secure

(LDAP).

 636 for secure (LDAP-S).

XMPP

Between web clients and social

media.

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The CloudAXIS Social Plug-in

running on a host-user's PC

uses this port to communicate

with Google Talk™ and

Facebook services to get contact

presence info and deliver instant

message invites.

SIP

Between web-based clients and

RPAD/DMA.

5060 (UDP/TCP) /5061 (TLS)

The SIP is the signaling protocol

used between endpoints and the

DMA for the Web Client, RPM,

and other SIP endpoints.

RTP/SRTP

Between web-based clients and

RMX 800s.

UDP ports 16384-32767

These are used to cary visual

and audio media between

endpoints and the MCU(s).

Completing the Setup Worksheets

Before you begin the Services Portal deployment, complete the fields in the My System Values

column of the Setup Worksheets. As you progress through the configuration, use the

information in these worksheets as a reference.

Table 6: Setup Worksheet for the LDAP Server Configuration

LDAP Options

My System Values

Description

Server

Enter the FQDN or IP address of

the LDAP Server.

Secure

Select to establish a secure

connection to the LDAP Server.

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LDAP Options

My System Values

Description

Port

Enter the port number to connect

to the LDAP Server. Typical

values:

 389 for non-secure

(LDAP).

 636 for secure (LDAP-S).

BaseDN

Specify the distinguished name

(DN) of a subset of the Active

Directory hierarchy. This

determines the set of users that

are able to schedule meetings

via the Services Portal.

Username

Enter the LDAP service account

user ID.

Password

Enter the login password for the

service account user ID.

Table 7: Setup Worksheet for the SMTP Server Configuration

Server Settings

My System Values

Description

Server

Enter the FQDN or IP address of

the SMTP Server

Secure

Select to establish a secure

connection to the SMTP Server.

Port

After deployment, enter the port

to use connect to SMTP Server.

Typical values:

 25 for non-

secure (SMTP).

 587/465 for secure

(SMTP-S).

Login Id

After deployment, enter the

SMTP service account user ID.

Password

Enter the login password for

service account user Id.

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Server Settings

My System Values

Description

Sender Mail Id

Enter the email ID to be used as

the return address for

notifications sent by the Services

Portal. This will typically be

configured as a “null” or “no

reply” address.

Table 8: Setup Worksheet for the Server Settings

SMTP Options

My System Values

Description

MEA Server

https://

Enter the URL including the

FQDN assigned to the IP

address of the Experience

Portal. See Accessing the

Experience Portal.

This information is used in

constructing the meeting links.

Please make sure that this

domain name is accessible to all

users of the solution including

any that may be located outside

of the organization.

WSP Server

https://

Enter the URL including the

FQDN assigned to the IP

address of the Services Portal.

See Accessing the Services

Portal.

This domain name is used in

constructing the login link to

Services Portal. Please make

sure that this domain name is

accessible to all users who will

access the Services Portal.

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Table 9: Setup Worksheet for the DMA Configuration

System Configuration

Information

My System Values

Description

Name

Enter a ‘nickname’ to assign to

the DMA system to distinguish it

in the Services Portal

configuration.

Host

Enter the FQDN or IP address of

an individual DMA or the FQDN

of the supercluster's virtual

address if the DMA is part of a

supercluster.

Port

Enter the TCP port number to

use when communicating with

the DMA system.

Typically, you will specify port

8443 (corresponding to the https

REST API for the DMA system).

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System Configuration

Information

My System Values

Description

VMR Prefix

Enter the VMR prefix that

corresponds to this DMA

system. This is optional and for

use in environments where a

dialing plan is used to assign

different VMR IDs to be handled

by a peered set of DMA

systems. Specifying this value

allows the portals to know where

to direct API requests

concerning a particular VMR ID.

For example, if DMA-1 had the

dialing prefix specified as “1” and

DMA-2 had no dialing prefix

specified, all portal requests

concerning VMRs with ID

“1xxxx” would be directed to

DMA-1 and requests concerning

any other VMR ID would be

directed to DMA-2.

Note that the VMR prefix must

match what’s on the DMA. To

set this up this value, see the

Polycom DMA 7000 System

Operations Guide on the

Polycom Support site.

Default Admin

Enter a user account name with

an administrative role that exists

on the DMA system.

Note that if the DMA system is

configured to have multiple

domains, make sure that the

admin user account has access

to all the domains and hence

can search the VMRs of all

users. This typically requires a

domain account rather than a

local DMA account.

Also note that the DMA system

must have an MCU Pool order

named ‘Factory Pool Order’. See

the Polycom DMA 7000 System

Operations Guide for more on

adding MCU Pool orders.

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