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Changing the network configuration, Refer to – Polycom VVX 1500 C User Manual

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Deployment Guide for the Polycom VVX 1500 C

3 - 2

If you choose to manage your phones through a provisioning server, you

need to:
Set up a provisioning server and download the appropriate files. Refer

to

Setting Up the Provisioning Server

on page

3-4

.

Decide which features you want enabled and which you want

disabled. Refer to

Configuring Your System

on page

3-6

.

Create configuration files to support the required features on the

phones. Refer to

Deploying Phones From the Provisioning Server

on

page

3-10

.

If you do not want to use a provisioning server, you can change some of

the phone’s configuration through a web interface. Refer to

Modifying

Phone’s Configuration Using the Web Interface

on page

B-1

.

Because of the large number of optional installations and configurations that

are available, this chapter focuses on one particular way that the SIP

application and the required external systems might initially be installed and

configured in your network.
For more information on configuring the Polycom VVX 1500 C phone, refer to

the latest SIP Administrator’s Guide, which is available at

http://www.polycom.com/support/voice/business_media_phones/vvx150

0c.html

.

Changing the Network Configuration

The Polycom VVX 1500 C phone requires several options to be set at boot time

in order to automatically pull its configuration files from an FTP server.

Alternatively, DHCP option 66 (or a DHCP option above 128) may be used to

instruct the phone where to get its configuration and application files. The

default username and password for the phone is PlcmSpIp. These defaults can

be changed in the boot menu of the phone. Any username/password change

on the phone should also be made on the FTP server.
All of the required options may be set by DHCP or manually on the phone

itself. With these options set, the phone will boot and automatically configure

itself to access the FTP server and upload the appropriate configuration files.

For installation and maintenance of the Polycom VVX 1500 C phone, the use of a
provisioning server is strongly recommended. This allows for flexibility in installing,
upgrading, maintaining, and configuring the phone. Configuration, log, and directory
files are normally located on this server. Allowing the phone write access to the
server is encouraged.

The phone is designed such that, if it cannot locate a provisioning server when it
boots up, it will operate with internally saved parameters. This is useful for
occasions when the provisioning server is not available, but is not intended to be
used for long-term operation of the phones.