Polycom SIP 3.0.2 Setting Up Security Features, Local User and Administrator Privilege Levels

Configuring Your System

The RTCP XR packets are complaint with RFC 3611 - RTP Control Extended Reports (RTCP XR). The packets are sent to a report collector as specified in draft RFC draft-ietf_sipping_rtcp-summary-02.

Three types of quality reports can be enabled:

•Alert—Generated when the call quality degrades below a configurable threshold.

•Periodic—Generated during a call at a configurable period.

•Session—Generated at the end of a call.

A wide range of performance metrics are generated. Some are based on current values, such as jitter buffer nominal delay and round trip delay, while others cover the time period from the beginning of the call until the report is sent, such as network packet loss. Some metrics are computed using other metrics as input, such as listening Mean Opinion Score (MOS), conversational MOS, listening R-factor, and conversational R-factor.

Configuration changes can performed centrally at the boot server:

Central	Configuration file:	Specify the location of the central report collector, how often the
(boot server)	sip.cfg	reports are generated, and the warning and critical threshold values
		that will cause generation of alert reports.
		•	For more information, refer to Quality Monitoring <quality
			monitoring/> on page A-47.

Setting Up Security Features

This section provides information for making configuration changes for the following security-related features:

•Local User and Administrator Privilege Levels

•Custom Certificates

•Incoming Signaling Validation

•Configuration File Encryption

Local User and Administrator Privilege Levels

Several local settings menus are protected with two privilege levels, user and administrator, each with its own password. The phone will prompt for either the user or administrator password before granting access to the various menu options. When the user password is requested, the administrator password will also work. The web server is protected by the administrator password (refer to Configuring SoundPoint IP / SoundStation IP Phones Locally on page 4-55).

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