Vcs Provisioning Server - Cisco TelePresence Administrator's Manual

Service Description
Devices The Devices service exchanges provisioning licensing information between the VCS and 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 TMS, and the VCS updates
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 TMS Provisioning Extension services to ensure the data held on VCS is
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kept up to date. 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 TMS.
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The data obtained from 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 TMS can be triggered at any time
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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 TMS
have been supplied to the VCS then click Check for updates instead.
You are recommended to use TMS to make any changes to the TMS Provisioning Extension services'
configuration settings. You can configure the services on the VCS through the
Extension services page, but any changes made to the settings via this page will not be applied within TMS.
Using FindMe without TMS
If you use FindMe without TMS (known as "standalone FindMe"), the VCS may still use the legacy
TMS Agent database to store FindMe data. However, you are recommended to switch from using the TMS
Agent to using the VCS's local database for storing FindMe data as soon as is practicable.

VCS Provisioning Server

The VCS's Provisioning Server provides provisioning-related services to provisioned devices, using data
supplied by TMS through the
The Provisioning Server only operates if the Device Provisioning option key is installed.
TMS provisioning modes
VCS version X7.1 and TMS version 13.2 support two TMS provisioning modes:
TMS Agent legacy mode: this uses the legacy TMS Agent database replication model to share
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provisioning and FindMe data between VCS and TMS. This is the mode used by earlier versions of VCS
and TMS.
TMS Provisioning Extension mode: this uses the TMS Provisioning Extension services to provide the
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VCS with provisioning and FindMe data that is managed and maintained exclusively within TMS.
Cisco VCS Administrator Guide (X7.2)
TMS Provisioning Extension service status
TMS provisioning mechanism.
Applications
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TMS Provisioning Extension
TMS Provisioning
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