How To Customize The Default Configuration File - Cisco 7960G Administrator's Manual

Chapter 3 Initializing Cisco SIP IP Phones

How to Customize the Default Configuration File

You have the following initialization choices:
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This section describes how to customize, then download. Maintaining parameters—such as whether
phones must register with a proxy server and the codec that phones must use when initiating a call—in
the default configuration file allows you to perform global changes, such as upgrading the image version,
without having to customize the phone-specific configuration file for each phone.
Note For a complete alphabetical list of configurable parameters, see
for the SIP IP Phone."
Prerequisites
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Procedure
Obtain the default configuration file as follows:
Step 1
a.
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Step 2 Using an ASCII text editor such as vi, open the file.
Modify the following required parameters:
Step 3
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– You can include white space before or after a variable or value. You can include any character
within them. However, if white spaces are needed within the value, you must enclose the value
in single or double quotes. If the value is enclosed in quotes, the end quote must be the same as
the start quote.
You can include comments after the value. Use the semicolon (;) and pound (#) delimiters to
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distinguish the comments.
You can include comment lines.
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You can include blank lines.
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You can use any case for variables; they are not case sensitive.
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Download, then customize. Download the default configuration file to your TFTP server, and then
plug each phone into power and the network. The phones automatically download the default
configuration file from the TFTP server. You can then customize parameters if required.
Customize, then download. Download the default configuration file to your TFTP server, open the
file, customize parameters for all the phones at once, save the customized file, and then plug the
phones into power and the network. The phones automatically download the customized file from
the TFTP server.
If you have an existing system from a release earlier than Release 7.x, upgrade your system firmware
as described in the "How to Upgrade Your Cisco SIP IP Phone Firmware Image" section on page 4-3
before proceeding.
Go to the Cisco.com SIP IP 7940/7960 phone software-download site at
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
which all phone-specific configuration files are stored.
line1_name—Number or e-mail address for use when registering. Enter a number without dashes.
For example, enter 555-0100 as 5550100. Enter an e-mail ID without the host name.
How to Customize the Default Configuration File
Appendix D, "Configurable Parameters
Cisco SIP IP Phone Administrator Guide, Release 6.x and 7.x
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