About the sma-2s configuration – Cisco Conference Phone User Manual

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Installation and Upgrade Guide for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3

OL-10029-01

Chapter 3 Installing Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing for a Segmented Meeting Access Configuration

About Segmented Meeting Access

About the SMA-2S Configuration

Note

For system requirements, see the “Segmented Meeting Access - 2 Server Requirements” section of the
of the

Release Notes

for your release of Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing. New

installations of Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3 require a Cisco MCS.

In the Segmented Meeting Access-2 Servers (SMA-2S) configuration, Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web
Conferencing is deployed on two separate web servers or two separate clusters of web servers. One is on
the internal network, behind the firewall; the other is on another network segment, such as a DMZ. The
internal server or cluster is only accessible from behind the firewall while the external server or cluster
is accessible from inside or outside the firewall.

While internal users have access to the full-access Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing user
interface, external users have access to an attend-only web page that only allows attendance to external
meetings.

The SMA-2S configuration is the preferred and most secure deployment model if you want to provide
external access to Cisco Unified MeetingPlace web conferences.

Note

We highly recommend that you configure external web servers to use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). This
provides optimum security and resolves proxy server issues that can prevent users from joining a web
conference. For more information, see Chapter 6 in the

Configuration Guide

for Cisco

Unified MeetingPlace Web Conferencing Release 5.3.

1

Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server
system.

2

Internal DNS server.

3

Cisco Unified MeetingPlace web server.

Note

The web server must have two IP
addresses.

4

Internal user.

Internal users enter internal meetings
through the internal website.

Internal users entering an external
meeting are redirected to their meeting
from the internal website.

5

External user.

External users access external meetings
through the external website.

External users do not have access to
internal meetings.

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