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Yealink Teams T58A Provisioning Manual

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  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Configuration Files ......................3 Resource Files ........................4 Obtaining Template Files ..................... 4 Obtaining Phone Information ....................4 Provisioning Yealink Teams IP phones ........5 Interoperating with Provisioning Server.................. 5 Auto Provisioning Process ...................... 6 Without Boot Files(Old Mechanism) ................... 6 With Boot Files(New Mechanism) ..................
  • Page 4 Teams IP Auto Provisioning Guide for Yealink Phones Preparing a Root Directory ....................25 Configuring a TFTP Server....................26 Obtaining the Provisioning Server Address ......29 DHCP Options ........................29 Phone Flash ......................... 31 Triggering the Phone to Perform the Auto Provisioning ..33 Power On ..........................

  • Page 5: Introduction

    Yealink Teams IP phones support FTP, TFTP, HTTP, and HTTPS protocols for auto provisioning and are configured to use the TFTP protocol by default. The purpose of this guide is to serve as a basic guidance for provisioning Yealink Teams IP phones, including: Yealink T58A ...
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  • Page 7: Getting Started

    The configuration files contain parameters that affect the features of the phone. You can use the configuration files to deploy and maintain a mass of Yealink IP phones automatically. You can create and name as many configuration files as you want (e.g., features.cfg) by using the template configuration files.

  • Page 8: Resource Files

    000.GUI.English.lang Language Packs 1.English_note.xml 1.English.js Obtaining Template Files You can ask the distributor or Yealink FAE for template files. You can also obtain them online: http://support.yealink.com/documentFront/forwardToDocumentFrontDisplayPage. To download template boot, configuration and resource files: Go to Yealink Document Download page and select the desired phone model.

  • Page 9: Provisioning Yealink Teams Ip Phones

    Provisioning Yealink Teams IP Phones Provisioning Yealink Teams IP phones This section provides instructions on how Teams IP phones interoperate with provisioning server for auto provisioning, and shows you four major tasks to configure the phones. It will help users who are not familiar with auto provisioning to understand this process more easily and quickly.

  • Page 10: Auto Provisioning Process

    Teams IP Auto Provisioning Guide for Yealink Phones Auto Provisioning Process Without Boot Files (Old Mechanism) The following flowchart shows how Teams IP phones perform auto provisioning when using configuration files only:...

  • Page 11: With Boot Files(New Mechanism)

    Provisioning Yealink Teams IP Phones With Boot Files (New Mechanism) The following figure shows auto provisioning flowcharts for Teams IP phones when using boot files: Scenario A – Do Not Support Exclude Mode...

  • Page 12: Major Tasks For Auto Provisioning

    Scenario B – Support Exclude Mode Major Tasks for Auto Provisioning You need to complete four major tasks to configure Yealink Teams IP phones. The following figure shows an overview of four major provisioning tasks: For more information on how to manage boot files, refer to Managing Boot Files.

  • Page 13: An Instance Of Auto Provision Configuration

    For more information on how to perform the auto provisioning process, refer to Triggering the Phone to Perform the Auto Provisioning. If you are not familiar with auto provisioning process on Yealink Teams IP phones, you can refer An Instance of Auto Provision Configuration. An Instance of Auto Provision Configuration This section shows an instance of auto provision configuration.
  • Page 14 Teams IP Auto Provisioning Guide for Yealink Phones Configure the TFTP server. Place configuration files to TFTP root directory (e.g., D:\TFTP Directory). Start the TFTP sever. The IP address of the TFTP server is shown as below: Select Configure TFTP Server. Click the button to locate the TFTP root directory from your local system.
  • Page 15 Provisioning Yealink Teams IP Phones Configure the provisioning server address on the phone. For more information on how to obtain the provisioning server address, refer to Obtaining the Provisioning Server Address.
  • Page 16 Teams IP Auto Provisioning Guide for Yealink Phones Trigger the phone to perform the auto provisioning. For more information on how to trigger the phone to perform the auto provisioning, refer to Triggering the Phone to Perform the Auto Provisioning.

  • Page 17: Managing Boot Files

    Managing Boot Files Managing Boot Files Yealink IP phones can download CFG files referenced in the boot files. Before provisioning, you may need to edit and customize your boot files. Yealink supports the following two types of boot files: Common boot file (y000000000000.boot) ...
  • Page 18 Teams IP Auto Provisioning Guide for Yealink Phones Item Guidelines For example, sip.cfg, HTTP Directory/sip.cfg Absolute URL:  For example, http://10.2.5.258/HTTP Directory/sip.cfg The URL must point to a specific CFG file. The CFG files are downloaded in the order listed (top to bottom). The parameters in the new downloaded configuration files will override the duplicate parameters in files downloaded earlier.

  • Page 19: Creating Mac-Oriented Boot File

    Managing Boot Files Creating MAC-Oriented Boot File The MAC-Oriented boot file is only effective for the specific phone. It uses the 12-digit MAC address of the IP phone as the file name. For example, if the MAC address of the phone is 805EC0319692, the MAC-Oriented boot file has to be named as 805EC0319692.boot (case- sensitive) respectively.
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  • Page 21: Managing Configuration Files

    Managing Configuration Files Managing Configuration Files Auto provisioning enables Yealink Teams IP phones to update themselves automatically via downloading Common CFG, MAC-Oriented CFG, custom CFG and MAC-local CFG files. Before provisioning, you may need to edit and customize your configuration files.
  • Page 22 Teams IP Auto Provisioning Guide for Yealink Phones The following figure shows a portion of the common CFG file: The following table lists guidelines you need to know when editing the common CFG file: Item Guidelines The line beginning with “#” is considered to be a comment.

  • Page 23: Editing Mac-Oriented Cfg File

    Managing Configuration Files Editing MAC-Oriented CFG File The MAC-Oriented CFG files are only effectual for the specific phone. They use the 12-digit MAC address of the phone as the file name. For example, if the MAC address of the phone is 0015651130F9, the MAC-Oriented CFG file has to be named as 0015651130f9.cfg (case- sensitive) respectively.

  • Page 24: Creating A New Cfg File

    Teams IP Auto Provisioning Guide for Yealink Phones Item Guidelines  The [$MODEL] can be added to the front of configuration parameter to specify the value for specific phone groups. $MODEL represents the phone model. The valid phone models are: MP56, T58A, T56A, T55A, VP59 and CP960. Multiple phone models are separated by commas.

  • Page 25: Encrypting Configuration Files

    To protect against unauthorized access and tampering of sensitive information, you can encrypt configuration files using Yealink Configuration Encryption Tool. AES keys must be 16 characters and the supported characters contain: 0 ~ 9, A ~ Z, a ~ z and the following special characters are also supported: # $ % * + , - .
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  • Page 27: Managing Resource Files

    UltraEdit. Customizing Resource Files When configuring some particular features, you may need to upload resource files to Teams IP phones, such as personalized ring tone file and language package file. Yealink supplies the following resource file templates: Template File...
  • Page 28 Teams IP Auto Provisioning Guide for Yealink Phones...

  • Page 29: Configuring A Provisioning Server

    Configuring a Provisioning Server Configuring a Provisioning Server Yealink Teams IP phones support using FTP, TFTP, HTTP and HTTPS protocols to download configuration files. You can use one of these protocols for provisioning. The TFTP protocol is used by default. The following section provides instructions on how to configure a TFTP server.

  • Page 30: Configuring A Tftp Server

    Teams IP Auto Provisioning Guide for Yealink Phones An example of configuration on the Windows platform is shown as below: Configuring a TFTP Server If you have a 3CDaemon application installed on your local system, use it directly. Otherwise, download and install it.
  • Page 31 Configuring a Provisioning Server Select Configure TFTP Server. Click the button to locate the TFTP root directory from your local system: Click the Confirm button to finish configuring the TFTP server. The server URL “tftp://IP/” (Here “IP” means the IP address of the provisioning server, for example, ”tftp://192.168.1.100/”) is where the phone downloads configuration files from.
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  • Page 33: Obtaining The Provisioning Server Address

    Obtaining the Provisioning Server Address Obtaining the Provisioning Server Address Yealink Teams IP phones support obtaining the provisioning server address in following ways: DHCP Options  Phone Flash  The priority of obtaining the provisioning server address is as follows: DHCP Options (Custom option-->option 66-->option 43)-->Phone Flash.
  • Page 34 After the Teams IP phone obtains the provisioning server address from the DHCP server, it will connect to the provisioning server and perform the auto provisioning process during startup. Yealink Teams HD IP Phones Administrator For more information on the DHCP options, r...

  • Page 35: Phone Flash

    Phone Flash Yealink Teams IP phones support obtaining the provisioning server address from the phone flash. To obtain the provisioning server address by reading the phone flash, make sure the configuration is set properly.
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  • Page 37: Triggering The Phone To Perform The Auto Provisioning

    Triggering the Phone to Perform the Auto Provisioning Triggering the Phone to Perform the Auto Provisioning This chapter introduces the following methods to trigger the Teams IP phone to perform the auto provisioning process: Power On  Repeatedly  Weekly ...

  • Page 38: Repeatedly

    Teams IP Auto Provisioning Guide for Yealink Phones Enable the Power On. Click Confirm to accept the change. Repeatedly The phone performs the auto provisioning process at regular intervals. You can configure the interval for the repeatedly mode. The default interval is 1440 minutes.

  • Page 39: Weekly

    Triggering the Phone to Perform the Auto Provisioning Weekly The phone performs the auto provisioning process at the fixed time every week. You can configure what time of the day and which day of the week to trigger the phone to perform the auto provisioning process.

  • Page 40: Multi-Mode Mixed

    Teams IP Auto Provisioning Guide for Yealink Phones To use the auto provision now mode via web user interface: Click on Settings->Auto Provision. Click Auto Provision Now. The phone will perform the auto provisioning process immediately. Multi-mode Mixed You can activate more than one method for auto provisioning. For example, you can activate the “Power On”...

  • Page 41: Downloading And Verifying Configurations

    The phone will reboot when there is at least a specific configuration requiring a reboot after auto provisioning. For more information on the specific configuration which require a reboot during auto provisioning, refer to the latest Administrator Guide for your phone on Yealink Technical Support.

  • Page 42: Using Mac-Local Cfg File

    Common CFG file and the MAC-Oriented AES key to decrypt the <MAC>.cfg file after downloading the configuration files. For more information on how the phone decrypts Yealink Configuration Encryption Tool User Guide configuration files, refer to Using MAC-local CFG File Updating configurations in the <MAC>-local.cfg file...
  • Page 43 Downloading and Verifying Configurations Example1: Yealink T58A Teams IP phone downloads configuration files from the TFTP server. Example 2: Yealink T58A Teams IP phone downloads configuration files from the FTP server.
  • Page 44 Teams IP Auto Provisioning Guide for Yealink Phones Example 3: Yealink T58A Teams IP phone downloads configuration files from the HTTP server.

  • Page 45: Troubleshooting

    Troubleshooting Troubleshooting This chapter provides general troubleshooting information to help you solve problems you might encounter when deploying phones. If you require additional information or assistance with the deployment, contact your system administrator. Why does the phone fail to download configuration files? Ensure that auto provisioning feature is configured properly.
  • Page 46 Teams IP Auto Provisioning Guide for Yealink Phones Why is the permission denied when uploading files to the root directory of the FTP server? Ensure that the complete path to the root directory of the FTP server is authorized. ...

  • Page 47: Glossary

    Glossary Glossary MAC Address: A Media Access Control address (MAC address) is a unique identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications on the physical network segment. MD5: The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm is a widely used cryptographic hash function that produces a 128-bit (16-byte) hash value. DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a network configuration protocol for hosts on Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
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  • Page 49: Appendix

    Appendix Appendix Configuring an FTP Server Wftpd and FileZilla are free FTP application software for Windows. This section mainly provides instructions on how to configure an FTP server using wftpd for Windows. You can download http://www.wftpd.com/products/products.html https://filezilla- wftpd online: or FileZilla online: project.org We recommend that you use vsftpd as an FTP server for Linux platform if required.

  • Page 50: Configuring An Ftp Server

    Teams IP Auto Provisioning Guide for Yealink Phones Configuring an FTP Server Before configuring a wftpd server, ensure that no other FTP servers exist in your local system. To configure a wftpd server: Download the compressed file of the wftpd application to your local directory and extract Double click the WFTPD.EXE.
  • Page 51 Appendix Click New User. Enter a user name (e.g., test1) in the User Name field and then click OK. Enter the password of the user (e.g., test1) created above in the New Password and Verify Password fields respectively, and then click OK. Click Browse to locate the FTP root directory from your local system.

  • Page 52: Configuring An Http Server

    Teams IP Auto Provisioning Guide for Yealink Phones 10. Check the check boxes of Read, Create Files/Dirs, List Directories and Overwrite/Delete to make sure the FTP user has the read and write permission. 11. Click Done to save the settings and finish the configurations.

  • Page 53: Configuring An Http Server

    Appendix You need to define a user or group name and set the permissions: read, write, and modify. Security permissions vary by organizations. An example of configuration on the Windows platform is shown as below: Configuring an HTTP Server HFS tool is an executable application, so you don’t need to install it. To configure an HTTP server: Download the application file to your local directory, double click the hfs.exe.
  • Page 54 Teams IP Auto Provisioning Guide for Yealink Phones The main configuration page is shown as below: Click Menu in the main page and select the IP address of the PC from IP address.
  • Page 55 Appendix The default HTTP port is 8080. You can also reset the HTTP port (make sure there is no port conflict). Right click the icon on the left of the main page, select Add folder from disk to add the HTTP Server root directory. (Optional) Right-click on the directory to select Set user/pass…...
  • Page 56 Teams IP Auto Provisioning Guide for Yealink Phones configuration files for different phones. To access the specified directory, you need to provide the correct user name and password configured for the directory. Enter a user name (e.g., test1) and password in the User Name, New Password and Verify Password fields respectively.

  • Page 57: Configuring A Dhcp Server

    Check the server URL (e.g., http:// 10.2.11.101:8088/ProvisioningDir) by clicking “Open in browser”. Yealink Teams IP phones also support the Hypertext Transfer Protocol with SSL/TLS (HTTPS) protocol for auto provisioning. HTTPS protocol provides the encrypted communication and secure identification. For more information on installing and configuring an Apache HTTPS Server, refer to the network resource.
  • Page 58 Teams IP Auto Provisioning Guide for Yealink Phones Click the Login button (the login password is blank) to log in. Right click Scopes and select New Scope. Configure the DHCP server name, the DHCP IP range and the subnet mask.
  • Page 59 New Option Type. Set the custom DHCP option (custom DHCP option tag number ranges from 128 to 254) and select the option type (Yealink supports string and ipaddress option types only). Click the OK button to finish setting the option properties. Click...
  • Page 60 Teams IP Auto Provisioning Guide for Yealink Phones Click Named Policies-->Global, right click the blank area on the right of the main page and then select New Option. Scroll down and double click the custom option 128. 10. Fill the provisioning server address in the input field.

  • Page 61: Add The Option 66 Via Dhcp Turbo

    Appendix 11. Click the OK button to finish setting a custom option. 12. Click to save the change. Add the Option 66 via DHCP Turbo You can add the option 66 via DHCP Turbo. The following shows the detailed processes. Click Named Policies-->Global, right click the blank area on the right of the main page and then select New Option.

  • Page 62: Add The Option 43 Via Dhcp Turbo

    Teams IP Auto Provisioning Guide for Yealink Phones Select TFTP Options from the pull-down list of Filter. Scroll down and double click MS option 66. Fill the provisioning server IP address in the input field. Click the OK button to finish setting a custom option.
  • Page 63 Appendix Click Named Policies-->Global, right click the blank area on the right of the main page and then select New Option. Select the Standard Options from the pull-down list of Filter. Scroll down and double click 43. Fill the provisioning server address in the input field. Click the OK button to finish setting a custom option.
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  • Page 65: Customer Feedback

    Appendix Customer Feedback We are striving to improve our documentation quality and we appreciate your feedback. Email your opinions and comments to DocsFeedback@yealink.com.

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