
Chapter 4: Maintaining 9600 Series IP
Deskphones
About software distribution packages
Important:
For any new software release, download the latest software distribution package and read any
Product Support Notices (PSNs) associated with the new release. Both are available on the
Avaya support Web site at:
From H.323 software Release 6.0 and later, Software Distribution Packages containing the
files needed to operate the 9600 Series IP deskphones are packaged together in either a Zip
format or an RPM/Tar format distribution package. You download the package appropriate to
your operating environment to your file server from the Avaya support Web site at:
based on the protocol you are using either H.323 or SIP for all or the
majority of your deskphones.
H.323 software distribution packages contain the following:
• One or more software files.
• One upgrade file such as 96x1Hupgrade.txt.
• All of the display text language files.
• A file named
av_prca_pem_2033.txt
that contains a copy of the Avaya Product Root
Certificate Authority certificate in PEM format. You may downloaded this file to the
deskphones based on the value of the TRUSTCERTS parameter.
• A file named
release.xml
that is used by the Avaya Software Update Manager
application.
Release 6.0 software distribution packages in Zip format also contain a signatures directory
containing signature files and a certificate file to be used by the Avaya file server application
on the Utility server. Customers using their own HTTP server can ignore or delete this
directory.
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