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Converting software on the 9608, 9608G, 9611G, 9621G, or 9641G IP deskphones

Issue 5

August 2014

upon power up and initialization. Once a deskphone is registered as SIP (through the SIG
setting), it will always access and download the appropriate SIP upgrade files upon reboot
or reregistration.
You can also set up a group of phones, then use the SIG parameter within that GROUP to
change the SIG setting for that group. For more information, see

The GROUP

parameter

on page

72.

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Settings file - You can also set the SIG parameter in the 46xxsettings file.

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From the deskphone - Use the

Setting the signaling protocol identifier

(SIG) Craft

procedure to change a single deskphone. A value entered via the SIG Craft procedure
takes precedence over a DHCP SIG setting and over a Settings file SIG setting when the
Craft procedure is used to set SIG to a value of 1 (H.323) or 2 (SIP), but not if the craft
procedure is used to set SIG to 0 (Default - H.323 or SIP, depending on the software
distribution package residing on the file server). For H.323, which is the factory default
setting, DHCP always takes precedence over SIG Craft procedures.

There are several H.323 to SIP or SIP to H.323 conversion scenarios, and each scenario
depends on whether the majority of your deskphones are H.323 or SIP:

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H.323-centric

- an environment where the majority of IP deskphones are and will remain

running the H.323 software, but some deskphones will become SIP deskphones. In an
H.323-centric environment, the

appropriate H.323 deskphone software files

(96x1Hupgrade.txt) must reside on a HTTP server and Avaya Aura

Communication

Manager must be configured with the appropriate H.323 parameters. To convert an
individual deskphone from H.323 to SIP, both Avaya Aura

Session Manager and Avaya

Aura

Communication Manager must be configured with the appropriate SIP parameters.

For more information on conversion instructions, see

Table

1: H.323 to SIP and SIP to

H.323 conversion chart

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SIP-centric

- an environment where the majority of your deskphones are or will become

SIP deskphones running SIP software. In a SIP-centric environment, the
96x1Supgrade.txt file must reside on a HTTP server and both Session Manager and
Communication Manager must be configured with the appropriate SIP parameters. To
convert an individual deskphone from SIP to H.323, Communication Manager must be
configured with the appropriate H.323 parameters. For more information on conversion
instructions, see

Table

1: H.323 to SIP and SIP to H.323 conversion chart

What makes an environment H.323-centric or SIP-centric depends on the type of upgrade script
files the environment is running (H.323 or SIP, see

Downloading software upgrades

on page

67)

and the Signaling Protocol Identifier (SIG) parameter setting. The SIG parameter has three
possible values:

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Default - either H.323 or SIP, set automatically for all deskphones depending on whether
your environment is H.323-centric or SIP-centric as determined by the software package
you downloaded and that resides on the file server.

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H.323 - manually set to H.323 for a specific deskphone by an installer or administrator
according to the procedures in this section.

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SIP - manually set to SIP for a specific deskphone by an installer or administrator
according to the procedures in this section.