User's Manual

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CHAPTER 2. AUTO-PROVISIONING – FOR
MASSIVE DEPLOYMENT OF
PHONES
2.1 Introduction
This section provides instructions on how IP phones interoperate with provisioning server for auto
provisioning, and shows you four major tasks to provision the phones. It will help users who are not familiar
with auto provisioning to understand this process more easily and quickly.
There are 4 configuration files both of which are CFG formatted that the phone will try to download from
the server during provisioning.
a. Common CFG file
b. MAC-oriented CFG file
c. Custom-named CFG file
d. ID-oriented CFG file
The Common CFG file will be effectual for all the phones of the right model. A common CFG file has a
fixed name for each model，The names of the Common CFG file for each model are:
VIP-1120PT: f0VIP-1120PThw1.100.cfg
VIP-2140PT： f0VIP-2140PThw1.100.cfg
The common config file is very helpful for taking Auto Provision deployment to mass terminals. For
example, if you would like to update firmware for 1000 terminals of VIP-2140PT automatically, you will just
need a common config file of f0VIP-2140PThw1.100.cfg) containing firmware parameters with
deployment, then put it on the appropriate server which the configured Auto-Provison process used.
The device config file named after MAC address is just effective for the terminal with
the corresponding MAC address. Its name is the MAC address to remove connectors. For example, the
MAC address of VIP-2140PT is "00: 30: 4f: 11: 3a: f8", so the config file name is "00304f113af8.cfg".