Cisco Unified MeetingPlace

This document contains frequently asked questions regarding the Cisco MeetingPlace Gateway System Integrity Module (GWSIM).

A. To resolve this, copy the correct time zone file and rename it "localtime". For more information, refer to Field Notice "Gateway SIM eventlog shows entries in Pacific Time, but PC clock is other than Pacific Time".

A. The Cisco MeetingPlace GWSIM is a port of the MeetingPlace SIM-to-NT machines (gateway units). These units, are treated as "peers" by the Cisco MeetingPlace server. As with conference units, restarts or disconnects are detected by the server and alarms are used to indicate problems.

A. The Cisco MeetingPlace GWSIM is based on a client-server architecture, which provides a means of acquiring, monitoring, and reporting the current status of Gateway-compliant remote gateways. The status of all gateways and gateway units (NT systems) is consolidated on the Cisco MeetingPlace server, and a view of this overall status is provided to technicians that have access to remote sessions on the server. Each gateway unit reports the status of gateways running on that unit and performs management tasks when requested.

The term "Gateway-compliant" refers to gateways that are instrumented to communicate with the agent.

A. The GWSIM agent reports the gateway status to the Cisco MeetingPlace server and performs management tasks upon request.

A. The GWD is an NT service executable. The GWD provides a simple GWSIM agent and server restart mechanism.

A. Yes, gateways installed on the agent's host machine are monitored by the GWSIM agent.

A. For the Cisco MeetingPlace Gateway 4.0.x release, go into the registry (on the NT machine where the gateways are located) and look under Software > Latitude > General > MeetingPlace GatewaySIM. The GWSIM agent version is listed here. For release 4.1.x , you can issue the gwstatus command and verify the version under Unit number WebPub: MPAgent.

A. The remote units are the health (heart) of the gateways. The term "gateway" refers to the actual gateways installed on the Cisco MeetingPlace server. See this example:

Meetingplace:tech$ gwstatus
Gateway SIM Status
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Remote Units:
  Unit 10 warfield       v4.1.0.27      Ok            09/05/00 11:46:19
  Unit 11 webserver5     v4.1.0.0       Unknown       06/28/00 20:05:58
  Unit 12 sametime       v4.1.0.27      Ok            09/05/00 11:46:22
 
Gateways:
  Unit 10 WebPub:DataSvc v4.1.0.37      Ok            08/16/00 14:30:24
  Unit 10 WebPub:MPAgent v4.1.0.41      Ok            08/16/00 18:53:56
  Unit 10 WebPub:Audio   v4.1.0.34      Ok            08/16/00 14:28:04
  Unit 10 Outlook:GW     v3.4.2.21      Shutdown      08/15/00 09:10:07
  Unit 10 Notes:GW       v4.0.1.38      Ok            06/28/00 20:08:05
  Unit 10 MPNotify       v4.0.1.37      Ok            06/28/00 20:08:01
  Unit 12 WebPub:DataSvc v4.1.0.37      Unknown       08/23/00 09:22:54
  Unit 12 WebPub:MPAgent v4.1.0.37      Unknown       08/23/00 09:22:54