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Cisco Unified IP Phone 7960G and 7940G Administration Guide for Release 8.0 (SIP)
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Chapter 3 Initializing Cisco Unified IP Phones
Overview of the Initialization Process
Note
Refer to the
Cisco 7940 and 7960 IP Phones Firmware Upgrade Matrix
for additional prerequisites.
Overview of the Initialization Process
For an overview of the initialization process, refer to
Cisco IP Phone 7960 and 7940 Firmware Upgrade
Matrix
, which is available at this URL:
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/voice/c_ipphon/english/ipp7960/addprot/mgcp/
frmwrup.htm
Basic phone configuration follows these high-level steps:
Step 1
Download the required files from Cisco.com to the TFTP server as described in
“Prerequisites”
.
Step 2
If you are configuring SIP parameters via a TFTP server, create and store the configuration files as
described in
“How to Customize the Default Configuration File”
and
“How to Customize a
Phone-Specific Configuration File”
. If you are not configuring the SIP parameters via a TFTP server,
manually configure the required parameters as described in
“Configuring the SIP Parameters Manually”
.
Step 3
If you are using DCHP to configure the phone network settings, configure the required network
parameters on your DHCP server as described in
“Prerequisites”
. If you are not using DHCP to configure
network parameters, manually configure the required network parameters as described in
“Configuring
Network Parameters Manually”
.
Step 4
Connect the phone to the network as described in
Appendix C, “Connection Specifications”
, and to a
power supply as described in
“Connecting the Phone to Power”
.
About Configuration Files
Configuration files reside in a TFTP server subdirectory (you can specify the location of this
subdirectory with the tftp_cfg_dir parameter). For more information, refer to the
Cisco 7940 and 7960
IP Phones Firmware Upgrade Matrix
.
Note
Be sure to customize configuration files
before
you power up the phone. When powered up, the phone
automatically loads parameters stored in flash memory and then requests configuration files from the
TFTP server.
There are two configuration files that can be downloaded from the TFTP server:
•
A default configuration file, named SIPDefault.cnf, which is downloaded by all phones.
•
A phone-specific configuration file, which is downloaded by a specific phone after the default
configuration file.
The name of each phone-specific configuration file is unique and is based on the MAC address of the
phone. The format of the filename must be SIP
XXXXYYYYZZZZ
.cnf, where
XXXXYYYYZZZZ
is the MAC
address of the phone. The MAC address must be in uppercase; the .cnf extension must be in lowercase
(for example, SIP00503EFFD842.cnf).
