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About This Guide
This Spectralink 84-Series Administration Guide provides advanced instructions for installing,
provisioning, and administering Spectralink handsets. It is a companion to the
Spectralink
84-Series Deployment Guide
which is your essential reference for understanding how to
provision and deploy Spectralink 84-Series handsets in any environment. This guide expands
upon the information provided in the Deployment Guide and provides additional data about how
the software works and provides descriptions of all applicable parameters. Specifically, this
Administration Guide will help you perform the following tasks:
Install and configure your handset on a network server or Web server
Configure your handset
’s features and functions
Configure your handset
’s user settings
Troubleshoot common handset issues
Who Should Read This Guide?
System administrators and network engineers should read this guide for advanced information
on configuring and understanding Spectralink 84-Series handsets. This guide describes
administration-level tasks and is not intended for end users.
Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with the following:
The information in the
Spectralink 84-Series Deployment Guide
is not duplicated in this
document. This document expands upon the basic configuration settings in the
Deployment Guide and this document assumes you are familiar with Deployment Guide
information.
Computer networking and driver administration for your operating system
An XML editor
The XML-based configuration file format that the Spectralink Software and its supported
handsets use.
What’s New in This Guide
The content in this guide has been significantly revised from the Polycom UCS version for use
with the Spectralink 84-Series handsets. It is designed for clarity and to provide more
information to system administrators who are already familiar with deploying Spectralink
84-Series handsets.