Administering guest users
About this task
A guest user is a person who logs into a phone other than the primary phone at the home location
of the user.
The guest user can log in to a phone that is across the country from the home location or one in
the office near home office. You administer permission for guest login by setting the system
parameter GUESTLOGINSTAT to 1 (permitted), that displays the Guest Login option on the Avaya
“A” Menu.
Other related parameters that you can administer are GUESTDURATION and
GUESTWARNING. .
Administering visiting users
About this task
A visiting user is anyone who uses a IP deskphone in one location, for example, New York, and
intends to register to a call server in some other location. For example in Paris. Typically, this
occurs when a user has travelled from his/her home location to another location in the
organization, but wants to register with the call server back home. The user might want to get the
specific administered feature buttons, etc. provided by the home call server.
To allow this functionality, the parameter VUMCIPADD should be administered in the 46xxsettings
file at the current location for the visitor, with the IP addresses of their home call servers. From
then on, the deskphone operates as specified in
Registration with the call server
on page 52.
Idle timer configuration
When the idle timer in the deskphone expires, you can administer the deskphone to turn the
backlight to the lowest power level, put up a screen saver, or show a Web page while the
deskphone is idle. However, do not set all these values on the same deskphone. However, you
can set a lobby phone to go to a Web page when the phone is idle. You can also set a desk phone
to go to the screen saver or set the backlight to low power mode when idle.
The related system parameters and their default values are:
System parameter
Default value
WMLIDLETIME
10 minutes
WMLIDLEURI
Null
BAKLIGHTOFF
120 minutes
SCREENSAVERON
240 minutes
Administering your phone
May 2018
Installing and Administering Avaya J169/J179 IP Phone H.323
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