Applying Downloaded Ini File After Graceful Timeout; Access Authentication With Http Server; Querying Provisioning Server For Updated Files - AudioCodes Mediant 4000 SBC User Manual

CHAPTER 40 Automatic Provisioning

Applying Downloaded ini File after Graceful Timeout

If you use the Automatic Update feature for updating the device's configuration from an ini file, you
can configure the device to gracefully lock itself before applying the settings of the ini file. When the
Automatic Update feature is triggered (for example, by a device reset) and the device downloads
the ini file from the remote provisioning server, the graceful timeout begins. During this period, the
device does not accept any new calls, allowing only existing calls to continue until the timeout
expires. If all existing calls end before the timeout expires, the device applies the configuration of
the downloaded ini file. If there are still existing calls when the timeout expires, the device
terminates the calls, and then applies the configuration of the downloaded ini file.
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To configure graceful timeout for automatic update of ini file:
1. In the ini file used for enabling and configuring the device for Automatic Update, include the
following parameters with the other parameters (such as IniFileURL) relating to Automatic
Update setup:
...
AupdGracefulShutdown=1
AdminStateLockControl=<Graceful Timeout>
...
2. Load the ini file to the device.

Access Authentication with HTTP Server

You can configure the device to authenticate itself with the HTTP/S server that contains the files
that you want to download for the Automatic Update mechanism. The device authenticates itself by
providing the HTTP/S server with its authentication username and password. The credentials are
used for both Digest access authentication (MD5 cryptographic hashing) and the non-secured
Basic access authentication method.
When configuring the URL of the server with the name of the file that you want downloaded, you
can also include the username and password (in the format "username:password"), as shown in the
example below for the software file (.cmp):
■ ini file:
AutoCmpFileUrl = 'https://JoeD:1234@10.1.1.1/mysw.cmp'
■ CLI:
# configure system
(config-system)# automatic update
(automatic-update)# auto-firmware https://JoeD:1234@10.1.1.1/mysw.cmp
If you have not included the username and password in the parameters used for configuring the
URL of the server with the name of the file that you want downloaded, the device uses the
username and password that you configured for the ini file parameter [AUPDUserPassword] or CLI
command configure system > automatic-update > credentials.

Querying Provisioning Server for Updated Files

Each time the Automatic Update feature is triggered, for each file and its configured URL the device
does the following:
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