Chapter 2 Getting Started with Your Cisco SIP IP Phone

Creating Dial Plans

Note We recommend that you define the dial_template parameter in the default configuration file for maintenance and control purposes. Specify the dial_template parameter in a phone-specific configuration file only if that phone needs to use a different dial plan than is being used by the other phones in the same system.

When creating a dial plan, remember the following:

Dial plans must be in an .xml format and be stored on your TFTP server.

You must specify which dial plan a phone is to use by specifying the path to the dial plan in the dial_template parameter that you define in either the phone-specific configuration file or the default configuration. We recommend that the dial_template parameter be defined in the default configuration file unless a specific phone must use a dial plan that differs from the one being used by other phones in the same system.

<DIALTEMPLATE> indicates the start of a template and </DIALTEMPLATE> indicates the end of a template

Rules are matched from start to finish with the longest matching rule taken as the one to use. Matches against a period are not counted for the length to be the longest.

Step 1 Using an ASCII editor, open a new file.

Step 2 Type <DIALTEMPLATE> to indicate the start of the dial plan template.

Step 3 For each of the numbering schemes that you wish to define, add the following string to the template, each starting each on a separate line:

<TEMPLATE MATCH=”pattern” Timeout=”sec” User=”type” Rewrite=”altstrng

Where:

MATCH=” pattern” is the dial pattern to match. When entering the pattern, use a period (.) to match any character or use an asterisk (*) to match one or more characters. To have the phone generate a secondary dial tone when the part of the template matches, use a comma (,).

Timeout=” sec” is the number of seconds before a timeout will occur and the number will be dialed as entered by the user. To have the number dial immediately, specify 0.

 

 

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