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Displaying conference status

The Conference status page displays the status of active and completed conferences and video and audio processing. To access this information, go to Status > Conferences.

Refer to the table below for assistance in interpreting the information displayed:

For information about the number and type of ports provided by each MCU model, refer to MCU port matrix.

Format of displayed values

In many cases, the values displayed on this page are shown in the format A (B) / C; this represents:

The maximum value (C above) for the "ports in use" fields depends on the number of port licenses allocated to the unit. One port license is required for standard definition (SD) ports, two for each high definition (HD) port.

Statistics for which there is no set maximum are displayed as A (B), where A and B have the meanings described above.

Where the highest value attained is shown in parentheses (i.e. B in the above example), this value can be reset by selecting Reset maximum values. These values can be useful in monitoring peak MCU usage over a period of time.

Conference status

Conference status displays an overview of active and completed conferences.

Field Field description
Active conferences

The number of conferences that are currently configured on the MCU.

Active auto attendants

The number of auto attendants that are currently in use.  If you dial in with an endpoint to the auto attendant, this will go up by one.  It does not reflect the number of configured auto attendants.

Completed conferences

The number of conferences that were once active but are now not.

Note : The number of completed conferences resets after a reboot. When the MCU reboots these completed conferences no longer appear on this page (this page displays runtime statistics). However, they will still appear on conference.enumerate and the Conferences > Conference list page (these pages display configured statistics).

Completed auto attendants

The total number of calls into an auto attendant, excluding any in progress. If you call an auto attendant and enter into a conference or hang up the call, this number increases by one.

Active conference participants

The number of people currently in conferences.

Previous conference participants

The number of people who were previously participating in a conference (since the last time the MCU restarted).

Video ports in use

This value is shown if the MCU is not operating in Port reservation mode, and shows the number of video ports in use. It also shows a maximum number, which is affected by the media port mode and by whether the MCU is in a cluster, and, on MCU 5300 units and MCU MSE 8510 blades, by how many media port licences have been assigned.

This number corresponds to the number of connected participants that are either sending or receiving video.

See the port matrix for more details.

Audio-only ports in use

This value is shown if the MCU is not operating in Port reservation mode, and shows the number of audio-only ports in use. This corresponds to the number of connected participants that are contributing or being sent audio but not video.

There is also a maximum number, which is affected by the media port mode and by whether the MCU is in a cluster, and, on MCU 5300 units and MCU MSE 8510 blades, by how many media port licences have been assigned.

Reserved video ports

This value is shown if the MCU is operating in Port reservation mode, and shows the total number of video ports reserved across the currently active conferences.

Reserved audio-only ports

This value is shown if the MCU is operating in Port reservation mode, and shows the total number of audio-only ports reserved across the currently active conferences.

Reserved video ports in use

This value is shown if the MCU is operating in Port reservation mode, and shows, of the number of video ports reserved, how many are actually being used by active conference participants.

Reserved audio-only ports in use

This value is shown if the MCU is operating in Port reservation mode, and shows, of the number of audio-only ports reserved, how many are actually being used by active conference participants.

Video status

Video status displays an overview of current video resource use.

 

Field Field description Usage tips
Incoming video streams

The number of video streams being received by the MCU.

Unicast indicates video streams sent directly to the MCU (incoming) or directly to the endpoints (outgoing) rather than multicast streams broadcast to the network and captured or sent by the MCU.

Outgoing video streams

The number of video streams being sent by the MCU.

Total incoming video bandwidth

The total video data rate being received by the MCU.

 
Total outgoing video bandwidth

The total video data rate being sent by the MCU.

 

Audio status

Audio status displays an overview of current audio resource use.

 

Field Field description Usage tips
Incoming audio streams

The number of audio streams being received by the MCU.

Unicast indicates audio streams sent directly to the MCU (incoming) or directly to the endpoints (outgoing) rather than multicast streams broadcast to the network and captured or sent by the MCU.

Outgoing audio streams

The number of audio streams being sent by the MCU.

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