Polycom RealPresence Resource Manager System Operations Guide Provision Endpoints with SIP Server Settings
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• SIP settings are configured at the site level.
• If the SIP server uses a different authentication directory than your
RealPresence Resource Manager system and requires unique
authentication for each endpoint, you need to import both user
information and SIP URIs before provisioning SIP settings.
• Provisioning Microsoft SIP requires additional steps, see “Provision
Group for Microsoft Lync or Microsoft Office Communications Server
Integration” on page 278.
SIP Server Authentication Requirements
You must understand your SIP server’s authentication requirements when
you provision SIP settings for endpoints managed by the RealPresence
Resource Manager system.
SIP server authentication requirements differ according to your environment.
• If your SIP server does not require credentials, you do not need to indicate
any credentials to use when provisioning.
• If your SIP server requires a common username and password for all
endpoints registering to the SIP server, you need to explicitly provision
that username and password to applicable endpoints.
• If your SIP server uses the same authentication database (i.e., Microsoft
Active Directory) as the RealPresence Resource Manager system, you
need to use the RealPresence Resource Manager system provisioning
credentials.
• If your SIP server does NOT use the same authentication database as the
RealPresence Resource Manager system and requires unique usernames
and passwords for each endpoint, you need to import the usernames from
the SIP server and import SIPURI information for the associated endpoints
before you can use user group provisioning. You can then use the
RealPresence Resource Manager system provisioning credentials to
provision endpoints.
Provision Endpoints with SIP Server Settings
The RealPresence Resource Manager system supports the integration with
various SIP servers by provisioning endpoints SIP settings they need.
After you provision endpoints with SIP settings, all endpoints receive
directory information from one of those servers. You are no longer using the
enterprise directory or the other directory functions in the RealPresence
Resource Manager system.
