Overview
Phone provisioning is used for automatic configurations of selected hardware SIP phones. Phone provisioning means:
- The phone automatically connects to the PBX after booting and is assigned a phone extension.
- Extensions are managed in the administration interface.
- If you confirm or plan it, the system will perform an automatic restart of provisioned phones if needed.
- Phone firmware is automatically updated.
- Displaying a company logo on hardware phones is supported by Kerio Operator.
- Company contacts are accessed through LDAP.
Description
This is how the automatic phone provisioning works:
- The telephone boots in the network and sends a DHCP request for an IP address.
- DHCP server accepts the request, assigns an IP address and sends it back in a DHCP reply. Besides the IP address, the message also contains TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) server address — Kerio Operator, in our case.
- SIP phone connects to TFTP server integrated with Kerio Operator.
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Kerio Operator checks whether the phone is new:
- if it is new, Kerio Operator generates a new phone extension for the phone;
- if it is not new, Kerio Operator finds the extension that the phone has used.
- Kerio Operator generates a configuration file suitable for the particular phone type and sends it via the TFTP protocol.
- The phone is configured using the values it has acquired in the configuration file and is ready to be used.
NOTE
Some phones perform an automatic restart during the configuration.