Avaya B179 Installation And Administration Manual page 55

Avaya B179 SIP Conference Phone
PROVISIONING – UPGRADE AND CONFIGURATION
Check server cert.
Certificate
Root certificate
Private key
 Read more about certificates on page 22.
Setting up a Device management server
This is a description of a manual method to create the configuration files.
 Select Settings > Provisioning.
 Enable Device management and enter the server information.
Creating a global configuration file

Configure one phone with the basic configuration.
 Click on Export to create a configuratuion file.
 If necessary, edit the xml file in a suitable editor.
 Some parameters can't be entered via the web interface (update frequency,
pagename, and filetype).
To avoid confusion, it may be wise to delete the local information from the file (eg.

account information).
 Save the file with the name avaya.xml on the File server address specified above.
Creating local configuration files
 Save a copy of the configuration file for each conference phone on your location
with content only in the elements that shall be unique for each conference phone
(eg. account information).
The default name for each file is avaya-<MAC>.xml, where <MAC> is the MAC ad-
dress of the specific conference phone.
 Place the configuration files on the File server address specified above.
Firmware binary

Place the firmware binary file on the Provisioning server.
 Create a Firmware metadata file according to page 49 and place it on the File server
address specified above.
 Depending on the server used, and the security settings, there might be necessary
to add the file type .kt to the MIME settings on the server. This is easily checked by
trying to download the kt file from a web browser.
Enable authentication with certificate.
Here you can upload a certificate to the Avaya B179 to be used
for authentication when using Device management.
The public key in the root certificate is used to verify other
certificates when using Device management.
Here you can upload a private key to the Avaya B179 to be used
for authentication when using Device management.
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