Provisioning
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ET685 Administrator and Provisioning Manual
ASCII Format
ASCII format provides limited provisioning support:
NO multiple language support. Only english phone user/web user interface
languages are pre-installed.
NO script dialplan
NO support of formerly used internal directory entries
[ Name (tn), Number (tu), Contact Type (tc), Outgoing Identity (to) ]
Structure
1. One general setting file per phone type
, i.e. ET685, containing general configuration
parameters
2. One specific setting file per phone
, i.e. (
MAC address based
), containing phone
specific configuration parameters.
3. One firmware setting file per phone type OR phone
containing firmware related
configuration parameters in order to perform automated firmware updates.
Hints
Lines may end with
newline
or
carriage return/newline
pairs
Comments start with
#
or
<
The
<
and
>
characters allow easy integration of
HTML tags
Names may consist of the characters
a-z, A-Z, 0-9
and
_
.
Flags
Parameter names can be followed by one specific character called
flag
:
A parameter followed by
!
can be changed by the user. However the parameter
value will only be stored if that parameter has not been configured yet. Only
parameters followed by
$
can be overwritten, DO NOT use ! in that case.
A parameter followed by
&
(or no flag)
becomes write-protected (read only)
A parameter followed by
$
can be changed but will be overwritten on reboot.
$
will appear on the Settings page as
!
General Setting File
General (phone type specific) setting files are requested from the setting server at first
example naming scheme: http://provisioning.mycompany.com/VTechET685.htm
in this case the general setting file was placed in the HTTP server root and will be requested
automatically by any ET685 --> necessary in mixed phone type environments
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