Registering The Telephone To The System; Configuring Telephone Settings - Nortel BCM50 Installation And Configuration Manual

44 Chapter 5 Registering Nortel 20XX IP telephones
How you configure the telephones depends on whether DHCP is active on the system.
— If DHCP (Distributed Host Control Protocol) service on the system is active or the
— If DHCP is not configured to provide system information, or if you are not using
— If an external DHCP server is not present, the DHCP server on the main unit
For more information about DHCP, refer to BCM50 Networking Configuration Guide
(N0027156).

Registering the telephone to the system

When you first connect the telephone to the IP connection, you can receive one of the following:
• If the telephone is not yet registered, and if a password is entered in the Terminal Registration
screen, the telephone prompts you for that password.
• If you set Auto Assign DN to OFF, the telephone prompts you for a DN. Refer to
"Configuring IP telephones" on page
• If you are prompted for a password, enter the password and press OK.
• If you are prompted for a DN, enter the DN you want assigned to this telephone and press OK.
When the telephone registers, it downloads the information from the system IP Telephony record
to the telephone configuration record. This might include a new firmware download, which occurs
automatically. If new firmware downloads, the telephone display indicates the event.
Note: If the telephone displays a prompt that indicates it cannot find the server,
follow the instructions in
specific network path.
possible prompt messages.

Configuring telephone settings

If you are not automatically registered to the system, you can configure your telephone settings to
enable you to access a system on the network. You also must perform these steps if your IP
telephone is not connected to the same LAN to which the system is connected.
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Customer DHCP server has been configured to hand out the specific system
network details, the IP telephone will automatically attempt to find the server.
After you register the telephone to the system, as described in
telephone to the system" on page
receives from the system, which are described in
on page 44.
DHCP on your network, you must configure your telephone parameters before the
telephone can register to the system. In this case, follow the directions in
"Configuring telephone settings" on page
that appear, as described in
supplies IP configuration information for all IP devices (PCs and IP Phones). It
also supplies specific connection information to the IP Phones.
Configuring telephone settings
"To troubleshoot IP telephones" on page 47
44, the telephone assumes the parameters it
44, and then follow any of the prompts
"Registering the telephone to the system" on page
25.
"Registering the
"Configuring telephone settings"
on page 44 to enter the
describes other
44.