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Spectralink 84-Series Series Wireless Telephones Administration Guide
1725-86984-000_P.docx
September 2016
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Open Application Interface
Spectralink
’s Open Application Interface (OAI) enables you to use the Spectralink handsets to
retrieve and respond to information on third-party computer applications.
Each handset that uses OAI features must be configured with its line number and MAC address
in the OAI Gateway so that it can register to the OAI Gateway and receive messages from it.
You can configure the OAI Gateway to
recognize either the handset’s MAC address or a “virtual
MAC Address” substitute. The substitute is useful when deploying User Profiles where the
handset user could use different handsets on different shifts. In this scenario the MAC address
will not identify the user. Configuration of the oai.userid parameter allows you to configure an ID
for a specific user. That way that user has the some ID whenever they are logged in.
Web Info: Using the Spectralink 8000 OAI Gateway
OAI v2.2 is supported by the Spectralink 84-Series handsets. For more information,
see the
Spectralink 8000 Open Applications Interface (OAI) Gateway
Administration Guide
.
Table 8-37: Configuring the Open Application Interface (OAI)
Parameter
Permitted values
Default
oai.gateway.address
IP address
Null
The address of the OAI server.
oai.userId
String of eight hexadecimal characters
Null
The lower four bytes of the six-byte OAI handset identifier in the OAI gateway.
If the value is null or invalid, the handset identifies itself to the OAI gateway using the MAC address of the handset;
otherwise, the upper two bytes are zero and the lower four bytes are as specified.