About The Settings File - Avaya 9608 Administrator's Manual

file name, if desired, as long as you also edit the corresponding GET command in the upgrade
file.

About the settings file

The settings file contains the parameters that you can use to customize the Avaya IP
Deskphones for your enterprise.
Note:
You can use one settings file for all your Avaya IP Telephones. The settings file
Note:
includes the 9600 Series SIP IP Telephones covered in this document and 4600
Series IP Telephones, as covered in the 4600 Series IP Telephone LAN
Administrator Guide (Document Number 555-233-507).
The settings file can include any of six types of statements, one per line:
Tags, which are lines that begin with a single "#" character, followed by a single space
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character, followed by a text string with no spaces.
Goto commands, of the form GOTO tag. Goto commands cause the telephone to
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continue interpreting the file at the next line after a # tag statement. If no such statement
exists, the rest of the file is ignored.
Conditionals, of the form IF $parameter_name SEQ string GOTO tag. Conditionals
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cause the Goto command to be processed if the value of the parameter named
parameter_name exactly matches string. If no such parameter named
parameter_name exists, the entire conditional is ignored. The only parameters that can
be used in a conditional statement are: GROUP, MACADDR, MODEL and MODEL4. In
pre-6.0 software releases, BOOTNAME and SIG could also be used. In software release
3.1 and later, VPNACTIVE can also be used. In software release 6.0 and later,
SIG_IN_USE can also be used.
SET commands, of the form SET parameter_name value. Invalid values cause the
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specified value to be ignored for the associated parameter_name so the default or
previously administered value is retained. All values must be text strings, even if the
value itself is numeric, a dotted decimal IP Address, and so on.
Comments, which are any lines that do not conform to any of the previously described
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types of statements, including lines that begin with more than one "#" character.
Note:
Enclose all data in quotation marks for proper interpretation.
Note:
GET commands, of the form GET filename. The telephone will attempt to download the
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file named by filename, and if it is successfully obtained, it will be interpreted as an
additional settings file, and no additional lines will be interpreted in the original file. If the
file cannot be obtained, the telephone will continue to interpret the original file.
Download the 46xxsettings.txt template file from support.avaya.com and edit it to add your own
custom settings. See Chapter 8: Administering Telephone Options
About the general download process
for details about specific
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