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Administrator Guide - SoundPoint ® IP / SoundStation ® IP Installation and Operation
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2 Installation and Operation
This section describes the basic steps that are needed to make your phone operational.
2.1 Installation Models
There are diverse installation models scaling from stand-alone phones to large, cen-
trally provisioned systems with thousands of phones. For any size system, the phones
can be centrally provisioned from a boot server via a system of global and per-phone
configuration files. To augment the central provisioning model, or as the sole method
in smaller systems, configuration can be done using user interfaces driven from the
phones themselves: both a local setup user interface and a web server-based user inter-
face are available to make configuration changes.
A boot server allows global and per-phone configuration to be managed centrally via
text XML-format configuration files that are downloaded by the phones at boot time.
The boot server also facilitates automated application upgrades, diagnostics, and a
measure of fault tolerance.
SoundPoint IP
Local User Interface
MAC 00:04:f2:00:29:99
0004f2002999.cfg
sip.ld
ipmid.cfg
sip.cfg
phone2999.cfg
SoundPointIP-dictionary.xml 0004f2002999-phone.cfg
0004f2002999-directory.cfg 0004f2002999-boot.log
0004f2002999-app.log
Local
Web Server
Boot Server
event log files
config overrides
directory
master config file
application binary
config files
dictionary files
user interface
resource files