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December 2008 - InnoMedia
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InnoMedia iPBX Administrative Guide
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Adding new managed IP Phones to iPBX
Adding a device to the iPBX is dependent on how you have decided to manage the different devices
behind the iPBX. You are able to manage the devices from the iPBX (called ‘Corporate IT Management), or
your SIP service provider (called ‘Service Provider Control’) manages the devices for you. Below is a
description of each.
Service Provider Control
In some circumstances, service providers will manage all IP Phone devices that are connected to the iPBX
at your office. All MACs of each device and their associated attributes are configured at the Service
Provider’s Central Office (CO) provisioning server and will automatically update your iPBX database.
Corporate IT managers just need to assign devices/lines to their users.
Managing Devices at Corporate IT Manager’s Control
In some circumstances, for example, the Service Provider will only supply your DID Numbers and Account
information for the iPBX VoIP Trunks, and you may have control over the configurations the iPBX and
devices connected to the iPBX.
Note: Devices that are connected to the iPBX should be certified for use with the iPBX.
4.1
Service Provider Control
The devices being managed by the Service Provider will need to be configured for Provisioning, and the
iPBX will also need to be configured for provisioning. The iPBX will then need to be provisioned with an
appropriate Provisioning Tag to tell it what mode to use for the attached device provisioning. You may
refer back to “iPBX Provisioning Tag List” for a full list of tags for the iPBX.
The provisioning tag for the iPBX to tell it to let the Service Provider Control the attached device is:
PHONE_MAC_PROVISION= 1; 1= service provider mode
To assign IP Phone devices to a specific iPBX will require that the MAC address be input (separated by
comma if more than one) after the model name in the iPBX provisioning configuration file. For example,
PHONE_MTA5550_MACS=00:10:99:00:00:01, 00:10:99:00:00:03,
A current list of supported models are listed below.
