The following sections provide an overview of Cisco Meeting Server and the Cisco: Meeting Server PowerPack:
What is Cisco Meeting Server?
Cisco Meeting Server is a conferencing solution that allows collaboration through secure video, audio, and web communication. Cisco Meeting Server integrates with a variety of third-party platforms across both cloud and hybrid environments.
What Does the Cisco: Meeting Server PowerPack Monitor?
To monitor Cisco Meeting Server devices using SL1, you must install the Cisco: Meeting Server PowerPack. This PowerPack enables you to discover, model, and collect data about Meeting Server devices.
The Cisco: Meeting Server PowerPack includes:
- Dynamic Applications that discover, model, and monitor performance metrics and collect configuration data for Cisco Meeting Server devices
- A Device Class for Cisco Meeting Server applications and devices SL1 monitors
- Event Policies and corresponding alerts that are triggered when Meeting Server devices meet certain status criteria
Installing the Cisco: Meeting Server PowerPack
Before completing the steps in this
By default, installing a new version of a PowerPack overwrites all content from a previous version of that PowerPack that has already been installed on the target system. You can use the Enable Selective PowerPack Field Protection setting in the Behavior Settings page (System > Settings > Behavior) to prevent new PowerPacks from overwriting local changes for some commonly customized fields. For more information, see the section on Global Settings.
Ensure that you are running version 12.1.2 or later of SL1 before installing this PowerPack. For details on upgrading SL1, see the relevant SL1 Platform Release Notes.
To download and install the PowerPack:
- Search for and download the PowerPack from the PowerPacks page (Product Downloads > PowerPacks & SyncPacks) at the ScienceLogic Support Site.
- In SL1, go to the PowerPacks page (System > Manage > PowerPacks).
- Click the Import PowerPack. The Import PowerPack dialog box appears. button and choose
- Click [Browse] and navigate to the PowerPack file from step 1.
- Select the PowerPack file and click . The PowerPack Installer modal displays a list of the PowerPack contents.
- Click PowerPack is added to the PowerPacks page. . The
If you exit the PowerPack Installer modal without installing the imported PowerPack, the imported PowerPack will not appear in the PowerPacks page. However, the imported PowerPack will appear in the Imported PowerPacks modal. This page appears when you click the menu and select Install PowerPack.