Configuring Basic Features
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Supported Provisioning Protocols
Configuring a Provisioning Server
Deploying Phones from the Provisioning Server
Why Using a Provisioning Server?
You can use a provisioning server to configure your IP phones. A provisioning server allows for
flexibility in upgrading, maintaining and configuring the phone. Boot files, configuration files
and resource files are normally located on this server.
When IP phones are triggered to perform auto provisioning, it will request to download the
boot files and configuration files from the provisioning server. During the auto provisioning
process, the IP phone will download and update configuration files to the phone flash. For more
information on auto provisioning, refer to
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The IP phones can be configured to periodically upload the log files to the provisioning server
or specific server, which can help an administrator more easily find the system problem and fix it.
For more information on log files, refer to Viewing Log Files on page 899. The IP phones can
also be configured to upload the contact file to the provisioning server or specific server,
avoiding the loss of the local contacts. For more information, refer to Backing up the Local
Contacts on page 343.
Supported Provisioning Protocols
IP phones perform the auto provisioning function of uploading log files (if configured),
uploading contact files (if configured), downloading boot files, downloading configuration files,
downloading resource files and upgrading firmware. The transfer protocol is used to download
files from the provisioning server. IP phones support several transport protocols for provisioning,
including FTP, TFTP, HTTP, and HTTPS protocols. And you can specify the transport protocol in
the provisioning server address, for example, http://xxxxxxx. If not specified, the TFTP protocol is
used. The provisioning server address can be IP address, domain name or URL. If a user name
and password are specified as part of the provisioning server address, for example,
http://user:pwd@server/dir, they will be used only if the server supports them.
Note
Configuring a Provisioning Server
The provisioning server can be set up on the local LAN or anywhere on the Internet. Use the
A URL should contain forward slashes instead of back slashes and should not contain spaces.
Escape characters are not supported.
If a user name and password are not specified as part of the provisioning server address, the User
Name and Password of the provisioning server configured on the phone will be used.
There are two types of FTP methods—active and passive. IP phones are not compatible with
active FTP.
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