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Chapter 4:
Setting Up the Provisioning
Server
This chapter provides instructions for setting up your Spectralink handsets with a central
provisioning server. If you are new to this process, it is important to read every section in this
chapter. Please also refer to the
Spectralink 84-Series Wireless Telephone Deployment Guide
for basic information.
Because of the large number of optional installations and configurations that are available, this
chapter focuses on one particular way that the Spectralink Software and the required external
systems might initially be installed and configured in your network.
If you want to begin setting up handset features, go to
Part III: Configuring Features
Why Use a Provisioning Server?
Spectralink strongly recommends that you use a central provisioning server to install and
maintain your Spectralink handsets. You can set up a provisioning server on the local LAN or
anywhere on the Internet. A provisioning server maximizes the flexibility you have when
installing, configuring, upgrading, and maintaining the handsets, and enables you to store
configuration, log, directory, and override files on the server. If you allow the handset write
access to your provisioning server, the handset can use the server to upload all of the file types
and store administrator and user settings. The handset is designed such that if it cannot locate a
provisioning server when it boots up, it will operate with internally saved parameters. This is
useful when the provisioning server is not available.
The default number of provisioning servers is one and the maximum number is eight. For more
information on the protocol used, see
Supported Provisioning Protocols.
Provisioning Server Redundancy
You can configure multiple (redundant) provisioning servers
—one logical server with multiple
addresses
—by mapping the provisioning server DNS name to multiple IP addresses. See
If you set up multiple provisioning servers, you must be able to reach all of the provisioning
servers with the same protocol and the contents on each provisioning server must be identical.
The parameters described in
can be used to configure the number of
times each server will be tried for a file transfer and also how long to wait between each
attempt. You can configure the maximum number of servers to be tried. For more information,
contact your Certified Spectralink Reseller.