Avaya B179 SIP Conference Phone
Installation and Administration Guide
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Page 1: ...Avaya B179 SIP Conference Phone Installation and Administration Guide Issue 1 March 2016...
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Page 3: ...support Copyright Preventing toll fraud Toll fraud is the unauthorized use of your telecommunications system by an unauthorized party for example a person who is not a corporate employee agent subcont...
Page 4: ...nce Guide 16 603916 and the Avaya B179 SIP Conference Phone User Guide 16 603918 The latest version of all documentation can be downloaded from support avaya com Please note that there are also suppor...
Page 5: ...4 Headset and PA installation and settings 44 Hard system recovery 47 Provisioning upgrade and configuration 48 Firmware upgrade on a single phone 48 Disabling firmware upgrade from SD card 49 FirmWAR...
Page 6: ...a soft dry cloth Never use liquids Alphanumerical buttons Hold down a button for 2 seconds to open the phonebook Menu Settings UP ARROW Navigation in menus Display of call list Cancel No end back Star...
Page 7: ...ing Number or name of each phone line The name will be displayed if a number is in the phone book Explanation of what you should do For example ENTER NUMBER Status For example Hold when you place all...
Page 8: ...t corresponds to the position of the option in the menu For example 2 to open PHONE BOOK and then 3 to select EDIT CONTACT Writing style in instructions In the instructions SETTINGS 6 means you should...
Page 9: ...Administration Guide 5 Menu tree Menu tree advanced settings The advanced settings are protected by administrator s PIN code The default value is 1234 The simplest way to make settings and edit contac...
Page 10: ...eight digits The administrator can always view and change the PIN codes to the user accounts The administrator s PIN code can only be reset with a complete reset to factory settings The existing value...
Page 11: ...ower adapter as illustrated below The Avaya B179 can be driven directly from the network Power over Ethernet Class III if the network supports this Place the conference phone in the middle of the tabl...
Page 12: ...etwork IP DHCP Set the DHCP option to On DHCP Site specific option SSON You can assign the values of site specific configuration parameters by using DHCP SSON You can enable SSON by any of the followi...
Page 13: ...freely The domain and secondary DNS can be left blank Press and select SETTINGS ADVANCED 6 2 Enter the PIN code The default code is 1234 Select NETWORK 2 Select IP Select STATIC IP Enter values for t...
Page 14: ...8 2 Check the conference phone s network address under the heading IP ADDRESS Use this address to log into the web server in the conference phone Login Log into the web server in Avaya B179 by enterin...
Page 15: ...upgrading many phones Note that all settings on the Basic tab also affect the user profile Default Other user profiles can be changed individually The settings on the Basic tab except the name and PI...
Page 16: ...errupting the upgrade may render the conference phone inoperable When installation is complete the text Upgrade Complete The unit will be rebooted is shown in your browser and after a while you hear t...
Page 17: ...e 13 Changing the language Select Settings Basic Select the desired language in the list box after Language and save the setting The B179 Phone supports the following languages English Swedish Danish...
Page 18: ...ce Phone Installation and Administration Guide 14 French Dutch Cyrillic Polish Turkish Greek Simplified Chinese Japanese Korean Note selecting a language only affects the phone language not the langua...
Page 19: ...d all necessary settings that the SIP PBX requires See topic Settings SIP for a detailed description of all settings Procedure Under Main account Click Yes at Enable account Enter the account informat...
Page 20: ...y reasons recordings can only be managed directly on the Avaya B179 All other settings can be changed via the web interface The web interface also allows you to import and export contacts and conferen...
Page 21: ...and click on the Save button On phone SETTINGS BASIC LANGUAGE 6 1 1 Ring level There are six volume levels plus a silent mode You will hear the ring tone for each level you select If you select silen...
Page 22: ...ption turns off the internal microphone and internal speakers as default The HEADSET option may be selected whether or not a headset is connected Time format Select 12 hour or 24 hour and click on the...
Page 23: ...Guide 19 Language String length allowed English 11 Swedish 9 Danish 10 Norwegian 11 Finnish 12 Italian 13 German 11 Spanish 14 Portuguese Br 13 Portuguese Eu 14 French 11 Dutch 11 Cryllic 14 Polish 1...
Page 24: ...Avaya B179 SIP Conference Phone Installation and Administration Guide 20 SIP Select Settings SIP...
Page 25: ...specified the phone will only respond to the specific realm when asked for credentials Authentication name The name used for the Realm authentication This may be the same as the user name but must be...
Page 26: ...er STUN server STUN should be activated if an external SIP server cannot connect to the Avaya B179 behind a firewall NAT function and the SIP server supports STUN A suitable STUN server is usually pro...
Page 27: ...nd proxy server Conference server The IP address of the conference server that is currently in use Accept Language header value Indicates the preferred languages for reason phrases session description...
Page 28: ...SIP messages To use SIPS however both VoIP devices and the SIP server must support it Even if Transport is set to TLS or SIPS the Avaya B179 still accepts incoming UDP or TCP signalling On phone SETTI...
Page 29: ...public key all signed by a trusted third party If you trust the third party then you can be sure that the public key belongs to the person organization named in that file You can also be sure that eve...
Page 30: ...Avaya B179 SIP Conference Phone Installation and Administration Guide 26 NETWORK Select Settings Network...
Page 31: ...address of an optional secondary DNS server On phone SETTINGS ADVANCED PIN NETWORK 6 2 2 Quality of Service Quality of service is used in IP networks to provide different priority to different applica...
Page 32: ...LAN EAP method Select which EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol method to use MD5 or TLS Username The device identity in the network MD5 password Password for the device identity when using MD5 Ce...
Page 33: ...dministration Guide 29 MEDIA Select Settings Media The media settings determine how audio is sent between the devices The devices nego tiate via SIP before a call is connected All devices must support...
Page 34: ...he dynamic range of an audio signal In analog systems this can increase the signal to noise ratio achieved during transmission and in the digital domain can reduce the quantization error Two main comp...
Page 35: ...h processing to detect the presence or absence of human speech in regions of audio In VoIP applications VAD is mainly used to avoid unnecessary coding and transmission of silence packets saving on com...
Page 36: ...Avaya B179 SIP Conference Phone Installation and Administration Guide 32 Advanced First RTP port If the RTP packets must be directed to a specific port series the first port number is set here...
Page 37: ...configure the LDAP feature Enable LDAP The LDAP feature is disabled by default because it has to be config ured Name filter Defines how the entered search characters are used The filter is designed c...
Page 38: ...r to the LDAP administrator for the actual names of the fields in the LDAP database Country code By entering the country code where the phone is located the country code in any phone number attribute...
Page 39: ...nk Layer Discovery Protocol LLDP is a data link layer protocol LLDP defines a standard for Ethernet network devices to broadcast and receive information about other devices in the same network The inf...
Page 40: ...SYSTEM CAPABILITIES 4 BIT 5 PHONE IS SET IN THE SYSTEM CAPABILITIES OCTET IF THE PHONE IS REGISTERED BIT 5 IS SET IN THE ENABLED CAPABILITIES OCTET BASIC OPTIONAL MANAGEMENT ADDRESS 23 MGMT ADDR STRI...
Page 41: ...0 NETWORK POLICY IS DEFINED T TAGGING X 0 RESERVED BIT VLAN ID VLAN_IN_USE TIA LLDP MED INVENTORY SOFTWARE REVISION 5 36 TIA OUI 00 12 BB HEX SOFTWARE REVISION SUBTYPE 7 SOFTWARE REVISION VALUE TIA L...
Page 42: ...tween the PC used for setup and the phone Certificate To use HTTPS you must upload a PEM certificate to the phone Note To convert DER or PFX formats to PEM use the OpenSSL commands listed in step 6 of...
Page 43: ...l Time UTC by means of synchronizing the clocks of computer systems over packet switched variable latency data networks Time This field shows the actual time if NTP is enabled Otherwise enter the corr...
Page 44: ...ion Select the region where you are This setting determines the signalling disconnect tone busy tone etc On phone SETTINGS ADVANCED PIN REGION 6 2 6 Daylight saving Enable DST Select the Yes radio but...
Page 45: ...he Reboot button reboots the conference phone The starting procedure may take about two minutes On phone SYSTEM REBOOT 7 2 Factory reset The Reset button resets the Avaya B179 to factory default setti...
Page 46: ...ously and transmit the call to other participants in the phone conference Please refer to the headset manual for further information Turning off the internal speakers when using a headset The internal...
Page 47: ...ternal microphones and speaker system Click on Save Do not select the PA option unless a PA system is connected This option turns off the internal microphone and internal speakers as default On phone...
Page 48: ...en is around 10 12 when speaking in a normal tone Adjusting PA calibration manually It is possible to calibrate the duplex performance of the conference phone when it is con nected to a PA system The...
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Page 50: ...e phone has started and redo the setup of account and other settings Restore firmware This replaces the current software with the one supplied with the phone All settings are erased Export a configura...
Page 51: ...grading from SD card Upgrading from SD card may be suitable if you have many phones to upgrade The phones do not have to be connected to the network Download the latest firmware as above and save it o...
Page 52: ...ry process prompts to initiate the SD card based firmware upgrade even if the option is disabled in the configuration file When the user selects the option to initiate the upgrade the following messag...
Page 53: ...cation logs messages to log facility LOCAL0 Log level 1 5 equivalent to Fatal Trace log_sip Log SIP messages to log facility LOCAL1 Default is true remote_log Log messages to a remote log server Defau...
Page 54: ...inal route set for outgoing requests will consist of the outbound proxies and the proxy configured in the account use_stun Use Simple Traversal of UDP through NATs STUN for NAT traversal Default is no...
Page 55: ...RTP does not require secure signalling 1 SRTP requires secure transport such as TLS 2 SRTP requires secure end to end transport SIPS codec type Codec type name Codec name prio Codec priority 0 4 dtmf...
Page 56: ...ore credentials can be specified for example when it is expected that requests will be challenged by the proxies in the route set realm Realm Use to make a credential that can be used to authenticate...
Page 57: ...inute 0 59 hour 0 23 day of month 1 30 month 1 12 day of week 0 7 Sunday 0 or 7 Example 0 6 the files are downloaded daily at 6 00 https_check_srv_cert Controls server certificate true or false https_...
Page 58: ...ion country_subdivision county county city city city_division city_division block block street street direction direction trailing_street_suffix trailing_street_suffix street_suffix street_suffix numb...
Page 59: ...e web browser Choose to save the page as an xml file The xml file is as default saved in your folder for downloaded files If necessary edit the xml file in a suitable editor Import configuration Click...
Page 60: ...on the device management server Global configuration file The global configuration file contains the basic configuration all settings that are common for all conference phones on your location The eas...
Page 61: ...file can be downloaded from support avaya com Firmware metadata file A metadata file in xml format with information of the firmware version in the binary file The file is used to check if the binary...
Page 62: ...On enables Device management Use DHCP option Set to on if you want to use DHCP option for DM server address DHCP option Enter the DHCP option used for the DM server address 242 Avaya specific option...
Page 63: ...on files Select Settings Provisioning Enable Device management and enter the server information Creating a global configuration file Configure one phone with the basic configuration Click on Export to...
Page 64: ...SUPPORT Avaya B179 registers concurrently with the primary and secondary proxy servers The phone also supports provisioning of a third party fall back server when a connection with the primary or seco...
Page 65: ...since the Avaya B179 screen cannot display more than 15 characters You can export contact books stored in your PC in CSV format The way the number can be written may depend on the SIP PBX being used b...
Page 66: ...hone book but use a three column csv instead of a two column csv The maximum number of conference groups allowed in the B179 phone book is 20 During importing the existing conference groups are retain...
Page 67: ...nference button on the phone to invoke the CS1000 server for the conference call To use the CS1000 server for conference calls Open the configuration file in edit mode In the sip tag add the server IP...
Page 68: ...es 2 modular 4P4C Auxiliary Modular 4P4C for wireless headset Network and communication Network addressing DHCP and static IP NAT traversal STUN ICE and TURN Connection protocol SIP 2 0 RFC 3261 and c...
Page 69: ...2 10 people Speaker Frequency band 200 7000 Hz Volume 90 dB SPL 0 5 m Equalizer Three pitches soft neutral bright Environment Temperature 5 40 C Relative humidity 20 80 condensation free Recommended a...
Page 70: ...ager profile The Communication Manager endpoint profile associates the user with a station on a Communication Manager The Session Manager profile creates a unique user identity and assigns the primary...
Page 71: ...IP Conference Phone Installation and Administration Guide 67 Configure the Communication Profile tab When you add a user in Session Manager System Manager automatically creates a station in Communicat...
Page 72: ...ofile of the phone When you add a user in Session Manager System Manager automatically creates a station in Communication Manager Use the System Administration Terminal SAT interface in Communication...
Page 73: ...e Installation and Administration Guide 69 Upgrade log Logs the upgrade procedure Next Steps On the phone check that the square icon next to the extension number is solid An empty square indicates tha...
Page 74: ...Manager configure the following components of the CS1000 Server SIP Line service SIP Line D Channel Application Module Link AML Value Added Server VAS Zone for SIP phones SIP Line Route Data Block RD...
Page 75: ...Avaya B179 SIP Conference Phone Installation and Administration Guide 71 b Click the Element Name corresponding to the Element Type CS1000 The System Overview page is displayed...
Page 76: ...tallation and Administration Guide 72 2 Enable SIP Line Service a In the left pane of the System Overview page click Customers b On the Customers page click the Customer Number link c On the Customer...
Page 77: ...phony Node a On the Element Manager page go to System IP Network Nodes Servers Media Cards Note the IP address of the node as it will be used in configuring the B179 later Select the Node ID on which...
Page 78: ...722 and G 729 support select Enabled next to Codec G 722 and Codec G 729 For G 729 Annex B silence suppression select Voice Activity Detection VAD Ensure that the VAD setting on Element Manager is con...
Page 79: ...tatus of the Synchronization Status field changes from Sync required to Synchronized h To use the new SIP Gateway settings click Restart Applications 4 Configure SIP Line D Channel a On the Element Ma...
Page 80: ...ministration Guide 76 e Click to expand the Basic options BSCOPT link f Click the Edit button to configure Remote Capabilities g On the Remote Capabilities page select Message waiting interworking wit...
Page 81: ...figuration page click Submit 5 Configure Application Module Link a On the Element Manager page click System Interfaces Application Module Link Add The New Application Module Link page is displayed b E...
Page 82: ...age enter a Value added server ID For example 064 d Select the AML number for Ethernet LAN Link e Ensure that the Application Security check box is not selected and click Save 7 Configure Zone for SIP...
Page 83: ...nk ICOG Select Incoming and Outgoing IAO Access code for the trunk route ACOD Enter the access code The route is for a virtual trunk route VTRK Select the check box Zone for codec selection and bandwi...
Page 84: ...runk a On the Element Manager page click Routes and Trunks Routes and Trunks b To add new trunk members to the new SIP line route click Add trunk c On the Trunk Property configuration page set the fol...
Page 85: ...Element Manager page click IP Network Media Gateways b In the IPMG column click the option that supports the digital and analog phones in the com munication system c On the IPMG Property Configuration...
Page 86: ...Activity Detection VAD Ensure that the VAD setting on Element Manager is consistent with the VAD setting in the B179 phone g Click Save h On the Media Gateway page select the configured IPMG and clic...
Page 87: ...ence Phone Installation and Administration Guide 83 c On the New Phones page select the Customer d Select the Phone Type radio button and from the list of options select UEXT SIPL Universal Extension...
Page 88: ...ertificate Server Generate the private key Convert the certificates and private key to PEM format Import the PEM files to the B179 Phone For information about using EJBCA certificates on Avaya Aura Sy...
Page 89: ...ide 85 2 Get the server certificate a On the Microsoft Server Certification Authority page click Request a certificate b On the Request a certificate page click advanced certificate request c Enter th...
Page 90: ...export the certificate file and click Next d Specify the file name and browse to the location to where the certificate must be exported 6 Convert the certificates to PEM format The B179 phone supports...
