Changing The License Status Of An Ip Phone; Generating A Secure Certificate - Nortel 1000 Administration Manual

Chapter 2 Basic Administration

Generating a Secure Certificate

Changing the License Status of an IP Phone

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Generating a Secure Certificate
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When the Application Gateway accepts a connection from an IP phone, it
records the MAC address of the phone. Once the maximum allowed
licenses are associated with phones, additional connection attempts result
in an error message.
You can free licenses for other phones by changing the status of an
obsolete phone to unlicensed.
To change a phone's license status:
In the Administration Tool, go to the Operation > Advanced page.
You will be prompted to log in to the Application Gateway Monitor.
Enter your administrative user credentials.
A VNC-like window appears, with the License Monitor window open.
Extensions are sorted in ascending order.
To change the status of a phone, right-click the phone and then click
Toggle Status.
If you have not installed a license that includes support for IP phones, no
phones will be listed in the License Monitor.
You should install on the Application Gateway a digital X.509 certificate
that belongs to your company. This will ensure that all SSL transactions
will pass with no error warnings to phone users. Certificates from Verisign
and Thawte are supported.
The Application Gateway accepts a Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) format
certificate file. PEM is a text format that is the Base-64 encoding of the
Distinguished Encoding Rules (DER) binary format. The PEM format
specifies the use of text BEGIN and END lines that indicate the type of
content that is being encoded.
Before you can upload a certificate to the Application Gateway, you will
need to generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) and private key. We
recommend using Linux OpenSSL to administer any certificate tasks. If
Linux is not available, we recommend the Cygwin UNIX environment for