Cisco Systems 7912G, 7905G manual Server

C H A P T E R 6

Configuring the Cisco IP Phone

Models 7905G and 7912G Using a TFTP

Server

This chapter explains how to configure the Cisco IP Phone using a Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server. This configuration method is useful when you have many Cisco IP Phones because you can use a TFTP server for remote, batch configuration of the phones. The TFTP server can also host one unique configuration file for each phone.

To obtain configuration information from a TFTP server, a phone downloads a configuration file, called a profile. A profile contains various parameters and values for phone and network settings.

You can also configure many parameters for a Cisco IP Phone by using the configuration menus on a phone and by using the phone’s web page. For more information, see Chapter 5, “Configuring the Cisco IP Phone Models 7905G and 7912G Using the Phone Menus,” and Chapter 7, “Configuring the

Cisco IP Phone Models 7905G and 7912G Using Web Pages.”

For an explanation of the parameters that you can use in a profile, see Chapter 8, “Profile and Web Page Parameters and Defaults.”

For a list of the configurable parameters on the phone menus and their equivalent profile and web page parameters, see Appendix B, “Phone Menu, Web Page, and Profile Equivalent Parameters.”

For an overview of configuring the Cisco IP Phone, see Chapter 3, “Configuring the Cisco IP Phone Models 7905G and 7912G for SIP.”

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