Avaya 1600 Series - Creating;Editing the Settings File

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Issue 23e (Friday, February 15, 2019)IP Office™ Platform 11.0
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Installation: File Server Settings
2.4.2 Creating/Editing the Settings File
During installation, the phones request files first downloading an xxupgrade file from the file server. They then follow the
instructions within that file to request further files if necessary. Various different xxupgrade files exist for the different
phone series. These are provided as part of the phone firmware . The xxupgrade files should not be edited or changed
in any way.
The last line of all the xxupgrade files instructs the phones to request the 46xxsettings.txt file. This file can be used to
set site specific settings for all the Avaya H.323 IP phones being supported on a particular site.
When using the IP Office system as the file server, the IP Office system will auto-create a suitable 46xxsettings.txt
file based on various IP Office system configuration settings. It will only do this if there is no actual 46xxsettings.txt file
available on the server.
Manually Editing the File
1. Locate the 46xxsettings.txt file on the file server.
2. Using a plain text editing tool, open the 46xxsettings.txt file.
3. Edit the file as required. The file contains numerous comments and notes. Further details of the various settings
are contained in the appropriate Avaya LAN Administrator Manual for the type of phone. Note that the files
contain a wide range of settings used on other Avaya telephone systems that may not necessarily work or be
supported with IP Office systems.
4. A # character at the start of a line comments out the command on that line.
Dialing Prefix
For IP Office systems the addition or removal of dialing prefixes is done by the IP Office system rather than individual
phones, the use of enhanced dialing rules through the phone settings file is not supported.
802.1Q Tagging
Unless specifically required for the customer network, for IP Office operation it is recommended that ## SET L2Q 0 is
changed to SET L2Q 2.
1600/9600 Series Phone Languages
In addition to English, the 1600 and 9600 phones can support up to 4 other languages. This is done by the phones, which
download the language files specified in the 46xxsettings.txt file. Currently 9 non-English language files are provided as
part of the IP Office Manager installation.
Language
1600 File
9600 File
Dutch
mlf_dutch.txt
mlf_9600_dutch.txt
French Canadian
mlf_french_can.txt
mlf_9600_french_can.txt
French
mlf_french_paris.txt
mlf_9600_french_paris.txt
German
mlf_german.txt
mlf_9600_german.txt
Italian
mlf_italian.txt
mlf_9600_italian.txt
Portuguese
mlf_portuguese.txt
mlf_9600_portuguese.txt
Russian
mlf_russian.txt
mlf_9600_russian.txt
Spanish
mlf_spanish.txt
mlf_9600_spanish.txt
Spanish (Latin American)
mlf_spanish_latin.txt
mlf_9600_spanish_latin.txt
The files to download to the phones are defined in the # SETTINGS1603, # SETTINGS1608 and # SETTINGS1616 sections of the
46xxsettings.txt file. To have the phone download a language file, remove the ## in front of one of the SET options and
change the file name to match the required language. If using the IP Office system as the file server, the appropriate
language files based on the IP Office system configuration can be provided using file auto-generation .
Backup/Restore
Phones can use an HTTP server as a location to which the user's phone settings are backed up and restore when they log
on or off the phone. See Backup/Restore Settings for full details.
Screensaver
You can specify how many minutes before an idle phone displays a screensaver image and the name of the image file.
See Screensaver .
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