Connect appliance to the network by plugging one end of the Cat 5 ethernet cable to the LAN
(Local Area Network) port on officeBOX™. Plug the other end of the cable to an existing
network socket. Depending on your setup, you also have MAN (Management Area Network) and
RAN (Replication Area Network) ports at your disposal.
Depending on PCI card(s) you selected with purchase of OfficeBOX™ M1000, you will have to
connect telephony cables accordingly.
Although, M1000 should come with preinstalled Bicom Systems software and you should be able
to reach the system once it is online on your network, console port is also available in case you
prefer direct connection for monitoring or to access the system through the console connection.
Once you connect all the necessary cables connect the box to the power source.
Software Setup
After officeBOX™ has been placed, it is time to set it up. As already mentioned there are three
network adapters LAN, MAN and RAN ports.
Default settings for network cards:
LAN port - DHCP (eth0)
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MAN port - DHCP with fallback IP to 192.168.100.1/24 (eth1)
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RAN port - not configured (eth2)
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OfficeBOX™ will come with preinstalled PBXware and LAN port will be set up to get the IP
address from DHCP server automatically. However, on larger networks it might be somewhat
complicated to find the IP assigned to OfficeBOX™. To avoid this issue, you can connect your PC
to a MAN port of the OfficeBOX™. To do this connect one end of the cable into a network port
on your computer and plug the other end into a MAN port on OfficeBOX™.
In order to access PBXware on IP address 192.168.100.1/24 you will have to set up your
network card IP to be in same IP range, for example, you can use IP address 192.168.100.2 with
netmask 255.255.255.0
Other network settings can be left empty.
Once you are connected to this network, connect to PBXware through ssh. Linux and Mac OS X
users can simply open terminal and type command:
ssh [email protected] -p2020
This will initiate an ssh connection to PBXware and if everything is set correctly you should be
prompted for password. Default PBXware password is: pbxware.
Once you are logged in start network wizard using command:
netsetup
This will start a Network Interface Configuration Wizard that will allow you to configure your
network interfaces.
