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HCL Sametime® Administration Guide 12
Administering
This section provides information on administering on Sametime environments.
Managing Sametime Meetings
This topic explains the features you can enable or disable for meetings. Currently, the settings that you can change are global settings that apply to the entire server. User policies cannot control the settings.
Increasing active cameras
The default allowed active cameras is eight, with the most recent active cameras displaying.

HCL Sametime® Administration Guide 12
- Accessibility features for Sametime
  Accessibility features help users who have a disability, such as restricted mobility or limited vision, to use information technology products successfully. HCL® strives to provide products with usable access for everyone.
- New features in Sametime 12
  The current version of HCL Sametime and HCL Sametime Premium includes new features and enhancements.
- Planning
  This section describes the system requirements and server configurations needed for HCL Sametime and HCL Sametime Premium.
- Installing
  This section provides information on installing and configuring the servers for HCL Sametime and HCL Sametime Premium.
- Configuring
  This section provides information on configuring the HCL Sametime server.
- Securing
  This section provides information on securing your HCL Sametime environments.
- Administering
  This section provides information on administering on Sametime environments.
  - Managing Sametime clients
    This section provides information on managing Sametime clients.
  - Managing file transfer data
    As with meeting recordings and reports, files that are shared in the chat are stored in a Docker volume or a Kubernetes persistent volume. By default, you can download these files within 90 days.
  - Testing Sametime chat and meeting clients
    This article assumes that you have successfully installed and configured Sametime or Sametime Premium.
  - Starting and stopping the Sametime server
    Starting and stopping the Sametime server involves starting and stopping the Sametime services running in the container management system.
  - Starting and stopping MongoDB
  - Managing policies
    Sametime policies allows administrators to control user access to features.
  - Configuration files
    Configuration files are used to maintain information used by the Sametime server for various reasons. In Sametime v12, configuration files are generated on demand based on information in the container management configuration file based on the whether you are using Docker or Kubernetes.
  - Enabling multi-tenancy
    Multi-tenancy allows multiple organizations to be part of the Sametime community. With multi-tenancy, Sametime users can chat, add users and groups to contact lists, and have awareness of users in their organization or in other organizations that are configured to be visible to them.
  - MongoDB
    This section provides information relating to administering MongoDB.
  - Managing Sametime Meetings
    This topic explains the features you can enable or disable for meetings. Currently, the settings that you can change are global settings that apply to the entire server. User policies cannot control the settings.
    - Disabling guest access
      You can disable guest access and remove the option from the meeting attend page.
    - Configuring live streaming
      If you have a high number of users that need to attend a meeting without two-way interaction, you can live stream the conference to YouTube. Users can access the meeting using a YouTube URL. Most of the live stream requirements are on the YouTube account that belongs to the user who moderates the meeting. In the context of YouTube live streaming, consider the Sametime Meeting server as an “encoder” for YouTube. There is no requirement to install additional software.
    - Increasing active cameras
      The default allowed active cameras is eight, with the most recent active cameras displaying.
    - Managing recording
      You can control how long meeting recordings are available and also disable the recording feature.
    - Managing user sign-on
      You can control how long your Sametime meeting credentials are maintained to reduce the number of times you have to sign in.
    - Disabling virtual background
    - Disabling custom background uploads
  - Managing file transfer data
    As with meeting recordings and reports, files that are shared in the chat are stored in a Docker volume or a Kubernetes persistent volume. By default, you can download these files within 90 days.
- Troubleshooting
  This section provides information on troubleshooting and supporting Sametime environments.
- Uninstalling Sametime
  In the event that Sametime must be uninstalled, follow these steps to uninstall the Community, Proxy, and Meetings servers.
- Migrating and Upgrading
  This section provides information on migrating data from an earlier release to Sametime 12.
- Notices

Increasing active cameras

The default allowed active cameras is eight, with the most recent active cameras displaying.

About this task

Including your own, by default the maximum number of videos that can be shown simultaneously in a meeting is nine. The default is the officially supported and recommended setting based on testing. Depending on your business needs, you can increase the value. Restore to the default setting if performance isses are encountered.

Docker
- custom.env
Kubernetes
- helm/values.yaml

Note: These values are case sensitive and must be entered as shown below.

Procedure

Modify the configuration file. The default value is 8.
1. For Docker environments, update the CHANNEL_LAST_N parameter to increase the number of active cameras. For example, CHANNEL_LAST_N = 11. When applied, you are able to view up to 12 simultaneous videos in a meeting including your own tile.
2. For Kubernetes environments, update the channelLastN parameter to increase the number of active cameras. For example, channelLastN : 11. When applied, you are able to view up to 12 simultaneous videos in a meeting including your own tile.
Restart the Sametime server to apply the changes. For more information, refer to Starting and stopping servers.