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Converting software on the 9608, 9608G, 9611G, 9621G, or 9641G IP deskphones
upon power up and initialization. Once a deskphone is registered as SIP (through the SIG
setting), it will always access and download the appropriate SIP upgrade files upon reboot
or reregistration.
You can also set up a group of phones, then use the SIG parameter within that GROUP to
change the SIG setting for that group. For more information, see
parameter on page 72.
Settings file - You can also set the SIG parameter in the 46xxsettings file.
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From the deskphone - Use the
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procedure to change a single deskphone. A value entered via the SIG Craft procedure
takes precedence over a DHCP SIG setting and over a Settings file SIG setting when the
Craft procedure is used to set SIG to a value of 1 (H.323) or 2 (SIP), but not if the craft
procedure is used to set SIG to 0 (Default - H.323 or SIP, depending on the software
distribution package residing on the file server). For H.323, which is the factory default
setting, DHCP always takes precedence over SIG Craft procedures.
There are several H.323 to SIP or SIP to H.323 conversion scenarios, and each scenario
depends on whether the majority of your deskphones are H.323 or SIP:
H.323-centric - an environment where the majority of IP deskphones are and will remain
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running the H.323 software, but some deskphones will become SIP deskphones. In an
H.323-centric environment, the appropriate H.323 deskphone software files
(96x1Hupgrade.txt) must reside on a HTTP server and Avaya Aura
Manager must be configured with the appropriate H.323 parameters. To convert an
individual deskphone from H.323 to SIP, both Avaya Aura
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Aura Communication Manager must be configured with the appropriate SIP parameters.
For more information on conversion instructions, see
H.323 conversion
SIP-centric - an environment where the majority of your deskphones are or will become
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SIP deskphones running SIP software. In a SIP-centric environment, the
96x1Supgrade.txt file must reside on a HTTP server and both Session Manager and
Communication Manager must be configured with the appropriate SIP parameters. To
convert an individual deskphone from SIP to H.323, Communication Manager must be
configured with the appropriate H.323 parameters. For more information on conversion
instructions, see
What makes an environment H.323-centric or SIP-centric depends on the type of upgrade script
files the environment is running (H.323 or SIP, see
and the Signaling Protocol Identifier (SIG) parameter setting. The SIG parameter has three
possible values:
Default - either H.323 or SIP, set automatically for all deskphones depending on whether
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your environment is H.323-centric or SIP-centric as determined by the software package
you downloaded and that resides on the file server.
H.323 - manually set to H.323 for a specific deskphone by an installer or administrator
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according to the procedures in this section.
SIP - manually set to SIP for a specific deskphone by an installer or administrator
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according to the procedures in this section.
Setting the signaling protocol identifier
chart.
Table 1: H.323 to SIP and SIP to H.323 conversion
The GROUP
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Session Manager and Avaya
Table 1: H.323 to SIP and SIP to
Downloading software upgrades
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(SIG) Craft
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Communication
chart.
on page 67)
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