Phone Restart; Configuration File Types - Alcatel Temporis IP150 Manual

During provisioning, the phone reads the configuration file and validates each module
and setting are validated. The phone considers a setting valid if it is:
 a valid data type
 formatted as a valid setting
 within a valid data range
 part of a module that passes an integrity check. That is, the module's settings are
consistent and logical. For example, in the "network" module, if DHCP is disabled,
but no static IP address is specified, the module will fail the integrity check and
none of the settings will apply.
Invalid modules or invalid settings are skipped and logged as ERRORs in the system log,
but will not interrupt the provisioning process. The system log will include the module
parameters that have not been applied. A recognized module with unrecognized settings
will cause all other settings in that module to be skipped.
A successful configuration or firmware update is reported as an INFO message in the
system log.
See Appendix A: Configuration File Settings for the options and value ranges available for
each configuration file setting.

Phone Restart

If the phone needs to restart after an auto-update, the restart happens only after the
phone has been idle for one minute.
To prevent users from delaying the update process, or to avoid phone restarts that might
interfere with incoming calls, either set the "repeatedly" resynchronization interval to a
suitable period, or upload any new configuration file(s) to your provisioning server after
work hours so that the phones will download the file(s) when there is little or no call
activity.
When you update the phone by importing a configuration file using the WebUI, the phone
restarts immediately after applying any new settings that require a restart, regardless of
whether the phone is idle.

Configuration File Types

The phone is able to retrieve and download two types of configuration file. Depending on
your requirements, you may want to make both types of configuration file available on
your provisioning server.
The two configuration file types are a general configuration file and a MAC-specific
configuration file. The types differ in name only. The formatting of the files' content is
identical.
The general configuration file contains settings that are required by all phones in the
system.
The MAC-specific configuration file is a file that only a single phone can retrieve. The
MAC-specific configuration file name contains a phone's MAC address and can only be
retrieved by the phone with a matching MAC address.
The filename formats for both files are:
 General file: <model>.cfg , i.e "Temporis_IP150.cfg"
 MAC-specific file: <model>_<MAC Address>.cfg
Both the general and MAC-specific files can contain any of the available configuration
settings. A setting can appear in the general configuration file or the unit configuration
file, or both files, or neither file. If a setting appears in both files, the setting that is read
last is the one that applies.
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