Installation And Operation; Installation Models - Polycom SoundPoint IP 301 Administrator's Manual

Administrator Guide - SoundPoint

2 Installation and Operation

This section describes the basic steps that are needed to make your phone operational.

2.1 Installation Models

There are diverse installation models scaling from stand-alone phones to large, cen-
trally provisioned systems with thousands of phones. For any size system, the phones
can be centrally provisioned from a boot server via a system of global and per-phone
configuration files. To augment the central provisioning model, or as the sole method
in smaller systems, configuration can be done using user interfaces driven from the
phones themselves: both a local setup user interface and a web server-based user inter-
face are available to make configuration changes.
A boot server allows global and per-phone configuration to be managed centrally via
text XML-format configuration files that are downloaded by the phones at boot time.
The boot server also facilitates automated application upgrades, diagnostics, and a
measure of fault tolerance.
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