file for the first time and gets an HTTP or HTTPS 401 authentication error. When you enable this feature, the
Profile account setup screen is displayed on the phone for the following situations:
• When the HTTP or HTTPs 401 authentication error occurs during first-time provisioning after the phone
reboots
• When the profile account username and password are empty
• When there are no username and password in the Profile Rule
If the Profile account setup screen is missed or ignored, the user can also access the setup screen through
the phone screen menu, or the Setup softkey, which displays only when no line on the phone is registered.
When you disable the feature, the Profile account setup screen doesn't display on the phone.
The username and password in the Profile Rule field have a higher priority than the profile account.
• When you provide a correct URL in the Profile Rule field without a username and password, the phone
requires authentication or digest to resynchronize the profile. With the correct profile account,
authentication passes. With an incorrect profile account, authentication fails.
• When you provide a correct URL in the Profile Rule field with a correct username and password, the
phone requires authentication or digest to resynchronize the profile. The profile account is not used for
phone resynchronization. Sign-in is successful.
• When you provide a correct URL in the Profile Rule field with an incorrect username and password,
the phone requires authentication or digest to resynchronize the profile. The profile account isn't used
for phone resynchronization. Sign-in always fails.
• When you provide an incorrect URL in the Profile Rule field, sign-in always fails.
You can also configure the parameters in the phone configuration file with XML(cfg.xml) code.
You can specify the profile authentication type from the phone administration web page.
Before you begin
Access the phone administration web page. See Access the Phone Web Interface, on page 104.
Procedure
Step 1 Select Voice > Provisioning.
Step 2 In the Configuration Profile section, set the Profile Authentication Type parameter to specify the credentials
to use for profile account authentication.
You can configure this parameter in the phone configuration XML file (cfg.xml) by entering a string in this
format:
<Profile_Authentication_Type ua="na">Disabled</Profile_Authentication_Type>
Options:
• Disabled: Disables the profile account feature.When this feature is disabled, the Profile account setup
menu doesn't display on the phone screen.
• Basic HTTP Authentication: The HTTP login credentials are used to authenticate the profile account.
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