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Cisco SIP IP Phone Administrator Guide
Chapter 2 Getting Started with Your Cisco SIP IP Phone
Installing the Cisco SIP IP Phone
Procedure
Step 1
Using an ASCII editor, open the SIPDefault.cnf file and define values for the following SIP global
parameters:
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image_version—(Required) Firmware version that the Cisco SIP IP phone should run.
Enter the name of the image version (as it is released by Cisco). Do not enter the extension. You
cannot change the image version by changing the file name, because the version is also built into the
file header. Trying to change the image version by changing the file name causes the firmware to fail
when it compares the version in the header against the file name.
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proxy1_address—(Required) IP address of the primary SIP proxy server that will be used by the
phones.
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tftp_cfg_dir—(Required if phone-specific configuration files are located in a subdirectory) Path to
the TFTP subdirectory in which phone-specific configuration files are stored.
Step 2
Save the file with the same file name, SIPDefault.cnf, to the root directory of your TFTP server.
The following is an example of a SIP default configuration file:
; sip default configuration file
#Image Version
image_version:P0S3-xx-y-zz ;
#Proxy server address
proxy1_address: 192.168.1.1 ;
#Subdirectory config file location
tftp_cfg_dir: /tftpboot/configs/sipphone
Creating the Phone-Specific SIP Configuration File
In the phone-specific SIP configuration file, define the parameters that are specific to a phone such as
the lines configured on a phone and the users defined for those lines.
Before You Begin
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Review the guidelines and restrictions documented in the
“Configuration File Guidelines” section
on page 2-4
.
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Line parameters (those identified as linex) define a line on the phone. If you configure a line to use
an e-mail address, that line can only be called using an e-mail address. Similarly, if you configure a
line to use a number, that line can only be called using the number. Each line can have a different
proxy configured.
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For a complete list of the SIP parameters that you can configure, see the
“Modifying the Phone’s
SIP Settings” section on page 3-5
.
Procedure
Step 1
Using an ASCII editor, create a phone-specific configuration file for each phone that you plan to install.
In the phone-specific configuration file, define values for the following SIP parameters (where x is a
number 1 through 6):
