Chapter 8 Cisco Ip Phone Customization; Custom Phone Rings; Set Up Custom Phone Ring - Cisco Unified IP Phone 8941 Administration Manual

Cisco IP Phone Customization
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Custom Phone Rings

The Cisco Unified IP Phone ships with two default ring types that are implemented in hardware: Chirp1 and
Chirp2. Cisco Unified Communications Manager also provides a default set of additional phone ring sounds
that are implemented in software as pulse code modulation (PCM) files. The PCM files, along with an XML
file (named DistinctiveRinglist.xml) that describes the ring list options that are available at your site, exist in
the TFTP directory on each Cisco Unified Communications Manager server.
For more information, see the Cisco Unified Communications Manager System Guide, "Cisco TFTP" chapter,
and the Cisco Unified Communications Operating System Administration Guide, "Software Upgrades" chapter.
The following sections describe how you can customize the phone rings that are available at your site by
creating PCM files and editing the DistinctiveRinglist.xml file.

Set Up Custom Phone Ring

To create custom phone rings for the Cisco Unified IP Phone, perform these steps:
Procedure
Step 1 Create a PCM file for each custom ring (one ring per file). Ensure the PCM files comply with the format
guidelines that are listed in
Upload the new PCM files that you created to the Cisco TFTP server for each Cisco Unified Communications
Manager in your cluster. For more information, see the Cisco Unified Communications Operating System
Administration Guide, "Software Upgrades" chapter.
Custom Phone Rings, page 79
Custom Background Images, page 81
Phone Customization Tools, page 83
Set Up Idle Display, page 83
Custom Ring File Formats, on page
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