Cisco 8861 - Applications

CHAPTER 6
Provisioning Formats
• Configuration Profiles , on page 77
• Configuration Profile Formats, on page 77
• Open Profile (XML) Compression and Encryption, on page 81
• Application of a Profile to the Phone, on page 86
• Provisioning Parameter Types, on page 87
• Data Types, on page 93
• Profile Updates and Firmware Upgrades, on page 97
Configuration Profiles
The phone accepts configuration in an XML format.
The examples in this document use configuration profiles with an XML format (XML) syntax.
For detailed information about your phone, refer to the administration guide for your particular device. Each
guide describes the parameters that can be configured through the administration web server.
Configuration Profile Formats
The configuration profile defines the parameter values for the phone.
The configuration profile XML format uses standard XML authoring tools to compile the parameters and
values.
Only the UTF-8 charset is supported. If you modify the profile in an editor, do not change the encoding format;
otherwise, the phone cannot recognize the file.
Note
Each phone has a different feature set and therefore, a different set of parameters.
XML Format (XML) Profile
The open format profile is a text file with XML-like syntax in a hierarchy of elements, with element attributes
and values. This format lets you use standard tools to create the configuration file. A configuration file in this
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