User's Manual

Chapter 3: Administration overview and
requirements
Administrative requirements
This topic outlines the operating environment for the Avaya B189 Conference IP Phone as
follows:
• Telephone Administration on the Avaya call server. For more information, see
Communication Manager Administration on page 19.
• IP Address management for the deskphone. For more information see, Administering the
DHCP and File Servers on page 39 for dynamic addressing.
• Tagging Control and VLAN administration for the phone, if applicable. For more
information, see
Administering Telephone Options.
• Quality of Service (QoS) administration for the phone, if appropriate. For more
information, see
QoS on page 30 and Administering QoS on page 21.
• Protocol administration, for example, Simple Network Management Control (SNMP) and
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP).
• Interface administration for the phone, as appropriate. Administer the phone to LAN
interface using the PHY1 parameter. For more information, see
Network
Requirements on page 27.
• Application-specific phone administration, if applicable. For more information, see
Administering Applications and Options on page 79.
The table on page 12 indicates that you can administer system parameters in many ways
and use many delivery mechanisms. For example:
• Maintaining the information on the call server.
• Manually entering the information with the phone dial pad.
• Administering the DHCP server.
• Editing the configuration file on the applicable HTTP or HTTPS file server.
• Modifying certain parameters with administrative permission.
Note:
You cannot administer all parameters on all delivery mechanisms.
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