
Chapter 12: Maintenance
Phone installation - best practices
The phone usually takes a few minutes to boot-up. Depending on your network configuration, you
can optimize the boot-up duration by considering the following factors:
• 46xxsettings.txt : The phone parses all the settings that are available in the settings file. Do
not use the complete settings file template. Create a new settings file and include only the
parameters that you plan to use for the phone. Refer to section
on page 273 for
details.
• IPv6 : On Avaya J100 Series IP Phones series phones, IPv6 is enabled by default. If your
network does not support IPv6, you can disable IPv6 by setting the IPV6STAT to 0 in the
46xxsettings.txt
file.
• 8012.x : Avaya J100 Series IP Phones support IEEE 802.1x parameters. Refer to section
Setting the 802.1x operational mode
on page 92 for details.
• NTP : On Avaya J100 Series IP Phones the default value of SNTPSRVR server is
0.avaya.pool.ntp.org
. If you are not using the default SNTP servers or if these servers
are not reachable, then you can configure the phone with an alternate list of SNTP servers
setting the following SNTPSRVR parameter value in the
46xxSettings.txt
file:
“ntp-
server-1,ntp-server-2”
, proving IP address or FQDN of the desired NTP server(s).
Specifying the correct SNTPSRVR prevents the delay caused by the phone waiting for NTP
server timeouts.
Device upgrade process
1. During boot-up, the phone receives the file server address from DHCP, LLDP, or the device
interface.
2. The phone contacts the provisioning server to download the firmware upgrade file,
J100Supgrade.txt
.
3. In
J100Supgrade.txt
, the APPNAME parameter contains the firmware version.
4. The phone compares the firmware version specified in the APPNAME parameter with its
type.
5. If the firmware version and the phone type match, the phone downloads the files for
upgrade.
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