Installation and Maintenance Manual

Avaya B179 SIP Conference Phone Installation and Administration Guide
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PROVISIONING – UPGRADE AND CONFIGURATION
Check server cert. Enable authentication with certicate.
Certicate Here you can upload a certicate to the Avaya B179 to be used for
authentication when using Device management.
Root certicate The public key in the root certicate is used to verify other certi-
cates when using Device management.
Private key Here you can upload a private key to the Avaya B179 to be used for
authentication when using Device management.
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Read more about certicates on page 22.
Setting up a Device management server
This is a description of a manual method to create the conguration les.
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Select Settings > Provisioning.
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Enable Device management and enter the server information.
Creating a global conguration le
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Congure one phone with the basic conguration.
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Click on Export to create a conguratuion le.
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If necessary, edit the xml le in a suitable editor.
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Some parameters can’t be entered via the web interface (update frequency, page-
name, and letype).
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To avoid confusion, it may be wise to delete the local information from the le (eg.
account information).
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Save the le with the name avaya.xml on the File server address specied above.
Creating local conguration les
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Save a copy of the conguration le for each conference phone on your location with
content only in the elements that shall be unique for each conference phone (eg.
account information).
The default name for each le is avaya-<MAC>.xml, where <MAC> is the MAC address
of the specic conference phone.
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Place the conguration les on the File server address specied above.
Firmware binary
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Place the rmware binary le on the Provisioning server.
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Create a Firmware metadata le according to page 49 and place it on the File server
address specied above.
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Depending on the server used, and the security settings, there might be necessary
to add the le type .kt to the MIME settings on the server. This is easily checked by
trying to download the kt le from a web browser.