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Customizing Cisco acquired TANDBERG/Codian Conferencing products and Cisco TelePresence Serial Gateway Series products

You can control what users see and hear on your Cisco acquired TANDBERG/Codian and Cisco TelePresence Serial Gateway Series products. You can customize:

Auto attendant

On an MCU you can add a custom banner image to any configured auto attendant. To do this:

  1. Go to Conferences > Auto attendant..
  2. Click the name of the configured auto attendant.
  3. Click the Banner tab.
  4. Alter the settings as required.
  5. Click Update.

See the online help topic associated with this page (Adding a custom auto attendant banner) for detailed information about each field.

Note: On a 4200 Series MCU, replacing the banner replaces the entire top bar of the auto attendant screen. On a 4500 Series MCU, the auto attendant has been improved to a high definition image, therefore the banner now just replaces the Codian logo . This is to ensure that the auto attendant screen works both on normal and wide display formats.

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Conference on-screen logo

You can remove or alter the display duration of the Codian logo that you see when you first connect to a conference. The logo cannot be removed from the MCU 4200 Series or the MSE 8420 Media blade.

To remove or alter the display duration of the logo from a MCU 4500 Series or MSE 8510 Media2 blade:

  1. Go to Settings > Conferences.
  2. For Overlaid logo duration, select the required duration.

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Welcome messages on the web interface

You can configure a welcome message to appear on the Login and Home page of the web interface of the Cisco TelePresence MCU, ISDN gateway, MSE 8000 Supervisor and Serial GW 3340 / MSE 8330. You can configure a separate title (maximum: 100 characters) and text (maximum: 1500 characters) for each banner. To configure the message banners:

  1. Go to Settings > User interface.
  2. In the Welcome messages section, enter the text you require for both the title and text fields.

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Voice prompts

By default Cisco acquired Codian and Cisco TelePresence Serial Gateway Series products include English voice prompts spoken by an American woman. These prompts provide users with information, for example: "Connecting you to your destination". You can replace these prompts with your own in order to change the wording, language, or accent used. Using the web interface, you can upload voice prompts as individual .wav files or in one go by using a resource package.

To change voice prompts, go to Settings > User interface. See the online help topic related to this page for detailed information.

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User interface settings

Cisco acquired Codian and Cisco TelePresence Serial Gateway Series products allow you to configure:

  • The auto-refresh of status pages (VCR / MCU / ISDN / MSE / Serial GW 3340 and Serial GW MSE 8330)
  • The display of thumbnail preview images (MCU / VCR )
  • The confirmation of participant disconnections (MCU)
  • The audio and visual muting of conference participants (MCU)

To configure these settings, go to Settings > User interface. See the online help topic related to this page for detailed information on configuring each field.

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Public web pages

You can allow users access to the streaming and conference list pages without having to authenticate with the MCU (this option is enabled by default). However, you can disable access as follows:

  1. Go to Settings > User interface.
  2. In the Public pages section, enable Streaming and/or Conference list as you require.
  3. Click Apply changes.

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Auto attendant

On an IP Gateway, you can customize the auto attendant by:

  • uploading a background image of your choice
  • setting a color for auto attendant items
  • setting a color for navigational options that appear at the bottom of the auto attendant screens
  • setting a color for the borders around video that does not appear as full-screen video (for example picture-in-picture operator video)

To customize an auto attendant’s background image and text:

  1. Go to Menus > Customization.
  2. Browse to find your background image on your network or computer.
  3. Click Upload and apply.
  4. Alter text settings as required.
  5. Click Update.

See the online help topic associated with this page (Customizing an auto attendant's background and text) for detailed information about each field.

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Auto attendant text prompts

By default the IP gateway includes a number of text prompts that appear on the auto attendant menus. These prompts are used by the IP gateway to provide callers with information, for example: "Back" "Cancel".

You can replace these text prompts with your own in order to change the wording or language used.

To customize the text prompts:

  1. Go to Settings > User interface.
  2. In the Installed customizations section, click show file details.
  3. Click Download default to download the text file that comprises the text prompts.
  4. Edit the file to use the language or wording you require.
    Note: Do not edit the numbers and the colons that appear at the beginning of each line. Also, do not insert and line breaks into this file.
  5. On the Settings > User interface page, click upload to upload your text file.

The IP gateway will immediately use the customized text prompts.

See the online help topic related to this page (Customizing the user interface) for more detailed information about configuring each field.

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This article applies to the following products:

  • Cisco TelePresence IP GW 3500 / MSE IPGW blade
  • Cisco TelePresence IP VCR 2200 / MSE VCR blade
  • Cisco TelePresence ISDN GW 3200 and 3241 / MSE 8310 and 8321 ISDN blades
  • Cisco TelePresence MCU 4200 / MSE 8420
  • Cisco TelePresence MCU 4500
  • Cisco TelePresence MSE 8050 Supervisor
  • Cisco TelePresence MSE 8510 blade
  • Cisco TelePresence Serial GW 3340 / MSE 8330 blade
May 10th, 2012 TAA_KB_188