User's Manual
Polycom CMA System Operations Guide 
312 Polycom, Inc.
When users log into a CMA system, the system first checks to make sure all 
essential services are running before allowing users to access the system. The 
following situations may occur.
• If all essential services are running, users are allowed to access the system.
• If one or more essential services is down, and the Apache service has been 
running for less than seven minutes, users receive an error message 
saying, “The CMA system is not ready. Please try again in a few minutes.”
• If one or more essential services is down, but the Apache service has been 
running for at least seven minutes, users are allowed to access the system. 
In this case, specific system functions may be unavailable to users.
Gatekeepers
The Gatekeepers pane displays information about the CMA system as a 
gatekeeper, including:
Polycom Conference 
Scheduling Service
Conference scheduling 
processes
Essential
Polycom Device Manager Device management 
processes
Essential
Polycom DialRuleService Dial rule management 
processes
Essential
Polycom Gatekeeper  Gatekeeper processes Essential
Polycom JServer Java processes including 
LDAP, SNMP, device 
management, Site 
Topology, and 
dynamically-managed 
device logins and 
provisioning.
Essential
Polycom Master Service Basic operation processes  Essential
Polycom Serial COM Serial port management 
processes
Essential
Polycom Service Monitor Redundancy monitoring 
processes
Required for 
redundancy
Service Manages the system’s... Comment
Field Description
Gatekeeper 
Statue
Displays the status of the CMA system gatekeeper. Possible 
values are Up or Down.










