Administrator's Manual 4. Configuration File
Version 2.2.8 31 400HD Series IP Phones
4.5.3 VoIProvision Utility Overview
The VoIProvision utility is a generic tool that automatically generates multiple MAC-specific
configuration files (.cfg). The utility generates a separate .cfg file for each IP phone.
To execute the utility, the user needs to prepare a csv file and a template file. The csv file
contains the tagged records for each IP phone and the template file maps these tagged
records to a configuration file format, which can be read by the IP Phone.
4.5.4 CSV File
The csv file contains a list of tags and a list of the tag's values. The first line in the file contains
the list of tags (comma-separated) and each of the other lines contains a list of values, where
each line record represents an individual IP phone.
The csv file is usually exported from the customer's IP-PBX or some other database and
typically contains the list of IP phones (e.g. MAC, extension ID, user name and password of
each IP phone).
Table 4-1: Example of CSV File
[mac] [name] [id] [password]
00908F123456 Jonathan 4071
00908F123457 David 4418
When opened as a text file, the csv file appears similar to the example below:
[mac],[name],[id],[password]
00908F123456,Jonathan,4071,12345
00908F123457,David,4418,12345
4.5.5 Template File
The template file defines the format of the generated configuration files, but contains tags
instead of actual values. The VoIProvision utility reads the template file and replaces each
tag with actual values from the csv file.
Example of a template file:
system/type=440HD
voip/line/0/enabled=1
voip/line/0/id=[id]
voip/line/0/auth_name=[name]
voip/line/0/auth_password=[password]
include global.cfg
4.5.6 Generated Configuration Files
The generated configuration (.cfg) files use a similar format to the template file; however the
tags are replaced with the actual values that are read by the VoIProvision utility from the csv
file. One of the tags defined in the csv file, should be used as the .cfg file name (in order for
the VoIProvision utility to generate a separate .cfg file for each line record in the csv file).
Typically the tag which defines the MAC address is used as the .cfg file name.
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