Unlocking And Locking The Phone; Setting And Restoring Network Parameters - Cisco 7960G Administrator's Manual

Chapter 3 Initializing Cisco SIP IP Phones
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Modifying your configuration using the phone menus requires that you unlock and relock the phone. A
padlock icon in the upper-right corner of your LCD displays on the phone when the phone is locked. By
default, the phone is locked.
If the Network Configuration or SIP Configuration menu is displayed, the lock icon in the upper-right
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corner of your LCD changes to an unlocked state. If you are located elsewhere in the
Cisco IP 7960G/7940G phone menus, the next time you access the Network Configuration or SIP
Configuration menu, the unlocked icon displays, and you can modify the network and SIP configuration
settings.

Unlocking and Locking the Phone

You must unlock and relock the phone to modify a configuration using the phone menus. Similarly,
phone users must unlock and relock the phone to modify end-user parameters.
A padlock icon in the upper-right corner of your LCD displays on the phone when the phone is locked.
By default, the phone is locked.
Prerequisites
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Procedure
To unlock the phone, do the following:
Step 1
a.
b.
To relock the phone, select Lock Config or Exit.
Step 2

Setting and Restoring Network Parameters

You can modify network parameters using the phone menus.
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After editing a parameter, press the Validate soft key to save the value that you have entered and
exit the Edit panel.
Set the phone password with the phone_password parameter in the phone-specific configuration file.
Press Settings > Unlock Config. The password prompt displays.
Enter a phone password. The phone unlocks, and the unlock icon displays on the LCD.
The Unlock Config menu choice changes to Lock Config and the configuration remains
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unlocked while you work within it. When you exit the configuration menu, the configuration
automatically relocks.
TFTPServer may be a required parameter, depending on how you intend for the phone to locate the
TFTP server from which it downloads its configuration file. You can provide the TFTP server IP
address in either of two ways:
How to Customize the Configuration from the Phone Menu
Cisco SIP IP Phone Administrator Guide, Release 6.x and 7.x
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