Alcatel Lucent M8 SIP DeskPhone User Guide

Alcatel Lucent M8 SIP DeskPhone

Specifications

• Models: M8 SIP DeskPhone, M7 SIP DeskPhone, M5 SIP DeskPhone, M3 SIP DeskPhone
• Auto Provisioning Guide: 8AL91461ENAA ed01

Product Information

The M8 / M7 / M5 / M3 DeskPhone Auto Provisioning Guide provides guidance on setting up phone networks, provisioning, and managing phones. This guide is designed for administrators experienced in networking and understanding open SIP networks and VoIP endpoint environments.

1. Introduction
   The guide provides general guidance on setting up phone networks, provisioning, and managing phones.

2. Glossary
   Definitions of key terms used in the guide such as ALE, DHCP, EDS, FQDN, HTTP/HTTPS, LAN, LDAP, MMI, PoE, RAM, SIP, SSH, TFTP, URL, USB, VCI, WBM, WAN.

3. Getting Started
   This section describes where the M8 / M7 / M5 / M3 DeskPhone fits in your network and provides basic initialization instructions for the auto provisioning of SIP phones.

4. Verifying Requirements
   To successfully auto provision the DeskPhone as SIP endpoints, certain requirements need to be met.

5. Obtaining Phone Information
   Find the MAC address on the back of the IP phone or check the phone’s status by pressing the OK key on the navigator keypad when the IP phone is on.

6. Preparing Configuration Files
   Before provisioning, prepare configuration files containing parameters affecting phone features. Three types of configuration files are needed: config.xml file (for global use), config.{model}.xml file (for common use with specified model), and config.{mac-address}.xml file (for individual use).

Provisioning Process Steps:

1. Verifying Requirements
2. Obtaining Phone Information
3. Preparing Configuration Files
4. Implementing Auto Provisioning Process

FAQ

Q: Who is the Auto Provisioning Guide intended for?
A: The guide is intended for administrators with experience in networking who understand open SIP networks and VoIP endpoint environments.

• M8 SIP DeskPhone
• M7 SIP DeskPhone
• M5 SIP DeskPhone
• M3 SIP DeskPhone

Auto Provisioning Guide
8AL91461ENAA ed01

Legal Notice

www.al-enterprise.com The Alcatel-Lucent name and logo are trademarks of Nokia used under license by ALE. To view other trademarks used by affiliated companies of ALE Holding, visit: www.al- enterprise.com/en/legal/trademarks-copyright . All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. The information presented is subject to change without notice. Neither ALE Holding nor any of its affiliates assumes any responsibility for inaccuracies contained herein. © Copyright 2023 ALE International, ALE USA Inc. All rights reserved in all countries.

Introduction

• The M8 / M7 / M5 / M3 DeskPhone Auto Provisioning Guide provides general guidance on setting up phone network, provisioning and managing phones.
• This guide is not intended for end users, but for administrators with experience in networking who understand the basics of open SIP networks and VoIP endpoint environments.
• As an administrator, you can do the following with this guide:
  • Set up a VoIP network and provisioning server.
  • Provision the phones with features and settings.
  • Troubleshoot, upgrade and maintain phones.
• The supported phones are M8 / M7 / M5 / M3 DeskPhone with R130 firmware version.

Glossary

Secure Socket Layer
LAN| Local Area Network
LDAP| Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
MMI| Man-Machine Interface
PoE| Power over Ethernet
RAM| Random Access Memory
SIP| Session Initiation Protocol
SSH| Secure Shell
TFTP| Trivial File Transfer Protocol
URL| Uniform Resource Locator
USB| Universal Serial Bus
VCI| Vendor Class Identifier
WBM| Web Based Management
WAN| Wide Area Network

Getting Started

This chapter describes where the M8 / M7 / M5 / M3 DeskPhone fit in your network and provides basic initialization instructions for the auto provisioning of SIP phones. Before the auto provisioning process, the following steps are required:

1. Verifying Requirements
2. Obtaining Phone Information
3. Preparing Configuration Files
4. Implementing Auto Provisioning Process

Verifying Requirements
To perform auto provisioning of the M8 / M7 / M5 / M3 DeskPhone as SIP endpoints in your network successfully, you need the following in deployments:

• The M8 / M7 / M5 / M3 DeskPhone with compatible firmware that can be powered up normally.
• A working IP network.
• A text editor, such as Notepad++, to create and edit configuration files.

Obtaining Phone Information

• The MAC address could be found from back of the IP phone.
• When the IP phone is on, you could also press OK key on navigator keypad to check the phone’s status quickly. The phone’s information, such as the valid IP address, MAC address, firmware version, and more, will be displayed on the screen.

Preparing Configuration Files
Before provisioning, you need to prepare the configuration files.
The configuration files contain the parameters that affect the corresponding features on the phone. They are used to deploy the M8 / M7 / M5 / M3 DeskPhone automatically.
There are three configuration files including config.xml file (for global use), config.{model}.xml file (for common use with the specified model), and config.{mac-address}.xml file (for individual use).

During the provisioning process, there are 3 steps:

1. The phone will try to obtain config.xml file first.
2. The phone will try to obtain config.{model}.xml, for which the model in between the brackets is the phone model.
3. The phone will try to obtain config.{mac-address}.xml, for which mac-address in between the brackets is the phone’s real MAC address.

See screenshot from PCAP below:

The format of the configuration file is as follows:

And more parameters could be found from ALE auto provisioning template, which could be obtained from an ALE distributor or ALE support team via support.alesip@al-enterprise.com .

Implementing Auto Provisioning Process
The auto provisioning flowchart below indicates the whole process:

Phone Provisioning Method Priority and Scenarios

Phone Provisioning Method Priority
For the auto provisioning process, the following approaches, which indicate different ways to obtain the provisioning URL, are listed in order of priority:

1. Obtaining auto provisioning URL via DHCP
2. Obtaining auto provisioning URL via PnP
3. Configuring auto provisioning URL via MMI or WBM
4. Obtaining auto provisioning URL/configuration parameters via EDS

Phone Provisioning Scenarios

• Scenario 1: Obtaining Auto Provisioning URL via DHCP

• Scenario 1 describes how to provision the phone under standard IP settings by DHCP server and with configuration file which will be downloaded during initialization from a provisioning server. The provisioning server URL is provided by the DHCP server. This requires a specific configuration on the DHCP server. In this scenario, the phone starts without any manual operation via MMI or WBM.

• Before processing:
  

  • The phone set must initialize in dynamic mode (default mode).
  • A DHCP server is operational on the LAN and configured to provide the URL of the provisioning server (auto provisioning URL). Please find below the screenshot from DHCP server tool.
  • A provisioning server is operational (see HTTP server setup for details).
  • The phone has connection access to the DHCP server and provisioning server.

Procedures:

1. Create and edit the configuration file.
2. Deploy the SIP configuration file in the provisioning server related directory.
3. Power on the phone.
4. After startup, the phone begins initialization process, and the phone will finish the provisioning process when it’s completely boot up.

Scenario 2: Obtaining Auto Provisioning URL via PnP
Scenario 2 describes how to provision the phone with configuration file which is downloaded during initialization from a provisioning server. The provisioning server URL is provided by PnP multicast message. This requires a specific configuration on the PnP server. In this scenario, the set starts without any manual operation via MMI or WBM.

Before processing:

• The phone set must initialize in dynamic mode (default mode).
• A provisioning server is operational (see HTTP server setup for details).
• A PnP server is embedded, generally, in SIP server.

Procedures:

1. Create and configure the configuration file.
2. Deploy the SIP configuration file in the provisioning server related directory.
3. Power on the phone.
4. After startup, the phone begins initialization process, and the phone will finish the provisioning process when it’s completely boot up.

Scenario 3: Configuring Auto Provisioning URL via MMI/WBM
Scenario 3 describes how to provision the phone under standard IP settings by DHCP server and with configuration file which will be downloaded during initialization from a provisioning server. The provisioning server URL is configured via MMI/WBM manually.

• Before processing:
  • The phone set must initialize in dynamic mode (default mode).
  • A provisioning server is operational (See HTTP server setup for details).
• Procedures via Phone MMI:

1. Create and configure the configuration file.
2. Deploy the SIP configuration file in the provisioning server related directory.
3. Power on the phone.
4. Configure auto provisioning URL via MMI by navigating through Menu → Advanced Setting (default password is 123456) → Auto Provision.
5. The phone will finish the provisioning process with corresponding parameters.

• Procedures via Phone WBM:

1. Create and configure the configuration file.
2. Deploy the SIP configuration file in the provisioning server related directory.
3. Power on the phone.
4. Obtain the IP address from the phone UI by pressing the “OK” button.
5. Input https://ipaddress in web browser to access the phone WBM, and then login as “admin” (default password is 123456).
6. Configure auto provisioning URL via WBM by navigating through Provision → Auto Provision → DM URL.
7. Click “Auto Provision Now”.
8. The phone will finish the provisioning process with corresponding parameters.![Alcatel-Lucent-M8-SIP-DeskPhone-fig- \(6\)](https://manuals.plus/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Alcatel-Lucent-M8-SIP-DeskPhone-fig-6.jpg)

• If Polling By Interval feature is enabled, and a specific value is configured for Polling Timeout, the phone will automatically execute second auto provisioning after the interval. The default value is 86400 seconds.
• If Polling By Weekdays feature is enabled, and values are configured for Polling Time and Polling Day of Week, the phone will start auto provisioning during the specified weekdays and Polling Time period at random time.

Scenario 4: Obtaining auto provisioning URL/configuration parameters via EDS

• The M8 / M7 / M5 / M3 DeskPhone support using ALE EDS. The EDS server allows you to provision phones with the auto provisioning URL and certificates, enabling phones to initialize from the WAN without requiring a specific configuration of a DHCP server or a provisioning server.

• When the set starts in dynamic mode and no provisioning server URL is configured via MMI/WBM or received from DHCP/PnP, it tries to connect to the ALE EDS server, whose address is hard-coded in its software. The detailed information could be found via https://www.aledevice.com/site/download
  

• Note: The URL of the provisioning server, provisioning authentication information, certificate, and configuration parameters could be stored into profile, but none of them is mandatory.

Scenario 4-1: Obtaining Auto Provisioning URL via EDS
Scenario 4-1 describes how to provision the phone under standard IP settings by DHCP server and with configuration file which will be downloaded during initialization from a provisioning server. The provisioning server URL is provided by the EDS server. This requires a specific configuration on the EDS server. In this scenario, the phone starts without any manual operation via MMI or WBM.

• Before processing:
  • The phone set can reach the WAN.
  • The phone set must initialize in dynamic mode (default mode).
  • A provisioning server is operational (See HTTP server setup for details).
  • A profile associated with the phone MAC address has been created on the EDS server, and the auto provisioning URL is contained within this profile.
• Procedures:

1. Create and configure the configuration file
2. Deploy the SIP configuration file in the provisioning server related directory
3. Power on the phone
4. After startup, the phone begins initialization process, and the phone will finish the provisioning process when it’s completely boot up.

Scenario 4-2: Obtaining Configuration Parameters via EDS
Scenario 4-2 describes how to provision the phone under standard IP settings by DHCP server and with configuration parameters stored into a profile, which will be downloaded during initialization from EDS directly. In this scenario, the phone starts without any manual operation via MMI or WBM.

• Before processing:
  • The phone set can reach the WAN.
  • The phone set must initialize in dynamic mode (default mode).
  • A profile associated with the phone MAC address has been created on the EDS server, and the configuration parameters for auto provisioning are stored into this profile, but without auto provisioning URL defined.
• Procedures :

1. Power on the phone.
2. After startup, the phone begins initialization process, and the phone will finish the provisioning process when it’s completely boot up.

Setting Up a Provisioning Server

Provisioning Server Setup Overview
As can be seen from the above-mentioned auto provisioning scenarios, provisioning server is necessary except Scenario 4-2 where EDS is playing a role as a special provisioning server.
The ALE M3/M5/M7/M8 DeskPhones support HTTP/HTTPS transport protocols for provisioning. The HTTP/HTTPS provisioning server can be set up on the local LAN.
It is recommended to use the following procedures for your first provisioning server setup.

1. Install an HTTP/HTTPS server application or locate a suitable existing server.
2. Create home directory for this server application.
3. Set security permissions for the account if required.

Once the setup has been completed, create the configuration files required for phone provisioning and store them in the HTTP/HTTPS provisioning server related directory.

HTTP Server Setup
To set up an Apache HTTP server, go to www.apache.org and download the latest version of Apache HTTP server. Generally, we strongly recommend setting up one HTTP server with some software tool like HFS or MobaXterm when provisioning with a simple environment.
Here we take HFS as an example to show how to set up one HTTP server.

1. Prepare the configuration file (one config.xml or one config.{mac-address}.xml, or both).
2. Install the HFS tool on your PC.
3. Open the tool, and select IP address and port.
4. Put the configuration file on the Virtual File System to get the URL for provisioning.

Upgrading the Firmware

• This chapter describes how to perform firmware upgrade of the M8 / M7 / M5 / M3 DeskPhone via auto provisioning. You can have the binary files by accessing
  http://www.aledevice.com/site/download

• The M8 / M7 / M5 / M3 DeskPhone can be upgraded by downloading firmware binary files from a provisioning server whose URL must be defined in the SIP configuration file.

Parameter for upgrading:
<setting id=”DmEnetcfgUpgradeFile” value=”upgrade URL” override=”true”/>

Procedures :

1. Set up the upgrading URL.
2. Put the firmware binary files in the directory of provisioning server, for example the URL could be http://192.168.0.107/ .
3. Prepare the configuration file which should include the following parameter:
4. Reboot the phone for the phone to upgrade automatically.

Restoring Default Values

This chapter describes an easy way to restore the parameters to default values for the M8 / M7 / M5 / M3 DeskPhone via auto provisioning. You can just modify the parameters in the configuration file as follows:

• Original:

• Changed:

  • After the phone downloads the configuration file, the parameter FeatureDndEnable will be changed to its default value.

Troubleshooting

This chapter describes the general troubleshooting information regarding auto provisioning. Issue scenario 1: IP phone failed to download configuration files

Troubleshooting steps:

1. Make sure the network environment of IP phone is stable.
2. Make sure the provisioning server is reachable.
3. Make sure the port of provisioning server is not blocked or occupied.
4. Make sure the authentication credentials (username/password, certificate etc.) are provided if required by provisioning server.
5. Make sure the configuration files exist on the provisioning server.

Issue scenario 2: IP phone failed to obtain the IP address from the DHCP server
Troubleshooting steps:

1. Make sure the configuration on the DHCP server is set correctly.
2. Make sure the DHCP Mode on the IP phone is set to Dynamic.

Issue scenario 3: After a request is sent from the IP phone, the provisioning server sends back HTTP 404
Troubleshooting steps:

1. Make sure the provisioning server has been correctly configured to be accessible.
2. Make sure the configuration files are stored on the provisioning server.

If the issue is still not resolved, please feel free to contact ALE support team at support@al-enterprise.com .

References

• ALE Home | Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
• Trademarks Copyright | Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
• Download Center
• Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation!
• Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation!
• Download Center

Read User Manual Online (PDF format)

Download This Manual (PDF format)

Download this manual  >>