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Administrator’s Guide for SIP-T4X IP Phones
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Name.
3. Enter the desired time in the Search Flash Time (Seconds) field.
4. Click Confirm to accept the change.
LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is an application protocol for accessing
and maintaining information services for the distributed directory over an IP network. IP
phones
can be configured to interface with a corporate directory server that supports
LDAP version 2 or 3 (Microsoft’s Active Directory is included).
The biggest plus for LDAP is that users can access the central LDAP directory of the
corporation using IP phones, so they do not have to maintain the local directory. Users
can search and dial out from the LDAP directory and save LDAP entries to the local
directory. LDAP entries displayed on the IP phone are read only, which cannot be added,
edited or deleted by users. When an LDAP server is properly configured, the IP phone
can look up entries from the LDAP server in a wide variety of ways. The LDAP server
indexes all the data in its entries, and "filters" may be used to select the desired contact
or group, and return the desired information.
The configurations on the IP phone limit the amount of displayed entries when querying
from the LDAP server, and decide how the attributes are displayed and sorted.
You can assign a DSS key to be an LDAP key, and press the LDAP key to enter the LDAP
search screen when the IP phone is idle.
LDAP Attributes
The following table lists the most common attributes used to configure the LDAP lookup
on IP phones:
Abbreviation Name Description
gn givenName First name
cn commonName
LDAP attribute being made up
from given name joined to