Installation and Maintenance Manual

Avaya B179 SIP Conference Phone Installation and Administration Guide

PROVISIONING – UPGRADE AND CONFIGURATION

Local conguration le

The local conguration le contains conguration parameters that are unique for every

conference phone. The settings in this le takes precedence over the settings in the global

conguration le.

The default name for this le is avaya-<MAC>.xml, where <MAC> is the MAC address of

the specic conference phone. The MAC address should be written without colons.

It is possible to create a custom name by using the pagename element in the congura-

tion le. It is also possible to refer to a cgi, php, asp, js or jsp le, instead of the xml le,

if this is declared using the type element in the conguration le.

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

elements in xml format.

<rmware_version>

<version>X.X.X </version> Eg. 2.3.0

<lename>xxxx </lename> Eg. AVAYA_B179_v2.3.0.kt

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

</rmware_version>