Chapter 9 Troubleshooting and Maintenance

Resetting or Restoring the Cisco Unified IP Phone

Table 9-1

Cisco Unified IP Phone Troubleshooting (continued)

 

 

 

Summary

 

Explanation

 

 

Phone call cannot be established

The phone does not have a DHCP IP address, is unable to register to Cisco

 

 

Unified Communications Manager, and shows a Configuring IP or Registering

 

 

message.

 

 

Verify the following:

 

 

1.

The Ethernet cable is attached.

 

 

2.

The Cisco CallManager service is running on the Cisco Unified

 

 

 

Communications Manager server.

 

 

3.

Both phones are registered to the same Cisco Unified Communications

 

 

 

Manager.

 

 

4.

Audio server debug and capture logs are enabled for both phones. If

 

 

 

needed, enable Java debug.

 

 

 

 

Resetting or Restoring the Cisco Unified IP Phone

There are two general methods for resetting or restoring the Cisco Unified IP Phone:

Performing a Basic Reset, page 9-10

Performing a Factory Reset, page 9-11

Performing a Basic Reset

Performing a basic reset of a Cisco Unified IP Phone provides a way to recover if the phone experiences an error and provides a way to reset or restore various configuration and security settings.

Table 9-2describes the ways to perform a basic reset. You can reset a phone with any of these operations after the phone has started up. Choose the operation that is appropriate for your situation.

Table 9-2

Basic Reset Methods

 

 

 

 

 

Operation

 

Performing

Explanation

 

 

 

 

Restart phone

 

Press the Services, Settings, or Directories

Resets any user and network configuration changes

 

 

button and then press **#**.

that you have made, but that the phone has not

 

 

 

written to its Flash memory, to previously saved

 

 

 

settings, then restarts the phone.

 

 

 

 

Reset Settings

 

From the Admin Settings menu, unlock phone

Resets user and network configuration settings to

 

 

options (see the “Unlocking and Locking

their default values, and restarts the phone.

 

 

Options” section on page 4-3), then choose

 

 

 

Reset Settings > All Settings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From the Admin Settings menu, unlock phone

Resets network configuration settings to their

 

 

options (see the “Unlocking and Locking

default values and resets the phone. (This method

 

 

Options” section on page 4-3), then choose

causes DHCP to reconfigure the IP address of the

 

 

Reset Settings > Network Settings.

phone.)

 

 

 

 

 

Cisco Unified IP Phone 6921, 6941, and 6961 Administration Guide for Cisco Unified Communications Manager 7.1 (SCCP)

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Cisco Systems CP6921CK9 manual Resetting or Restoring the Cisco Unified IP Phone, Performing a Basic Reset