Cisco 7940G Administration Manual page 5

Chapter 3 Initializing Cisco Unified IP Phones
For a complete alphabetical list of configurable parameters, see
Note
Parameters."
Prerequisites
• If you have an existing system from a release earlier than Release 7.x, upgrade your system firmware
as described in the
Remotely" section on page 4-3
Procedure
Obtain the default configuration file as follows:
Step 1
Go to the Cisco.com SIP IP 7940/7960 phone software-download site at
a.
http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/sip-ip-phone7960.
Download the SIPDefault.cnf file to the root directory of your TFTP server or to a subdirectory in
b.
which all phone-specific configuration files are stored.
Using an ASCII text editor such as vi, open the file.
Step 2
Modify the following required parameters:
Step 3
image_version—Specifies the firmware version that the Cisco SIP IP phone should run. Enter the
•
name of the image version (as it is released by Cisco). Do not enter the extension.
Note
proxy1_address—IP address of the SIP proxy server that is used by the phones. Enter the address in
•
IP dotted-decimal notation or use the FQDN.
• tftp_cfg_dir—Specifies the path to the TFTP subdirectory in which phone-specific configuration
files are stored. Required only if the phone-specific configuration files are located in a subdirectory.
Step 4 Modify additional parameters as needed.
Step 5 Save the file to the root directory of your TFTP server or to a subdirectory in which all phone-specific
configuration files are stored.
Configuration Example
The following is an example of the SIPDefault configuration file that you downloaded from Cisco.com:
# SIP Default Configuration File
# Image Version
image_version: P0S3-06-0-00
# Proxy Server
proxy1_address: 172.16.255.255
proxy2_address:""; Can be dotted IP or FQDN
proxy3_address:""; Can be dotted IP or FQDN
proxy4_address:""; Can be dotted IP or FQDN
proxy5_address:""; Can be dotted IP or FQDN
proxy6_address:""; Can be dotted IP or FQDN
OL-7890-01
"How to Upgrade Your Cisco SIP IP Phone Firmware Image and Reboot
before proceeding.
You cannot change the image version by changing the filename because the version is also
built into the file header. Trying to change the image version by changing the filename
causes the firmware to fail when it compares the version in the header against the filename.
Cisco Unified IP Phone 7960G and 7940G Administration Guide for Release 8.0 (SIP)
How to Customize the Default Configuration File
Appendix D, "SIP IP Phone
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