Chapter 3: Auto-configuring Avaya one-X
®
Communicator
Use the Avaya one-X
®
Communicator Centralized Administration Tool to create a discover.xml
file before you start auto-configuring Avaya one-X
®
Communicator . You can also create the
discover.xml manually. Contact your system administrator for more information on creating and
using the disocver.xml file.
Before you begin
Ensure that your system administrator has configured automatic discovery settings in the
46xxsettings.txt file that is hosted on your http or https server.
About this task
You can use the Auto-configuration feature to pre-populate some of your configuration fields in
Avaya one-X
®
Communicator. To use the Auto-configuration feature, perform the following steps:
Procedure
1. In the Avaya one-X
®
Communicator Login window, click Menu > Settings.
Avaya one-X
®
Communicator displays the General Settings window with the list of
configuration tabs in the left navigation pane.
2. If you want to apply auto-configuration only to a specific group of settings, click the required
configuration tab in the left navigation pane.
3. Click Auto-configure .
4. In the Auto-configure dialog box, perform any one of the following:
• Click All to apply the auto-configuration feature to all Avaya one-X
®
Communicator
settings.
• Click This screen only to apply the auto-configuration feature to the current configuration
tab only.
The system displays a message indicating the progress of the auto-configure operation. If
the retrieval is successful, the system displays the Login dialog box. If the retrieval is
unsuccessful, the system displays a message indicating that you must configure Avaya one-
X
®
Communicator manually before you can log in.
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Communicator 15
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