User's Manual

Avaya B179 SIP Conference Phone Installation and Administration Guide

Avaya B179 searches for conguration les in the following order:

Firmware binary

Contains the rmware binary that will be downloaded and installed by Avaya B179 if the

metadata le shows that this is a newer version than the present installed. The binary le can

be downloaded from support.avaya.com.

Firmware metadata le

A metadata le in xml format with information of the rmware version in the binary le. The

le is used to check if the binary le should be downloaded to the phone or not.

The name of this le shall be avaya_fw_version.xml. The le shall contain the following ele-

ments in xml format.

<rmware_version>

<version>X.X.X </version> Eg. 2.3.9

<lename>xxxx </lename> Eg. AVAYA_B179_v2.3.9.kt

<checksum>XXXX </checksum> MD5 checksum of the rmware binary

</rmware_version>