Phone management

This menu (Figure 4.50) allows you to get the list of registered IPBrick VoIP clients (IP telephones, workstations + softphone) that where registered from the IPBrick.I - Machines Management and to manage some configurations. By clicking on a phone name it's possible to modify the following fields:

• Phone: Phone username;
• Password: Phone password that can be changed;
• Alternative Phone Addresses: In that field we can have alternative addresses to the phone. An alternative address is another name (or number) to reach the telephone. This functionality is very useful when there are telephones from which you can only dial numbers. It's a good policy to register phones by names and after that define a numeric alternative address (example at Figure 4.51)
• Caller ID: If you want to mask the caller ID insert the full number;
• Phone Location
  • Local: It's the default, for a LAN phone;
  • Remote: For a remote phone that is connected behind a NAT. Usually this option is used when the idea is register the phone from the Internet, using the IPBrick network public IP.
• Auto provisioning: The auto provisioning option permits the automatic configuration of SIP hardphones, so here we just need to choose the phone model. To work, it's mandatory when registering the phone at Machines Management, to insert the MAC address.
• Description: This field should have a text description about the phone;

Figure 4.50: VoIP - Phones management

Figure 4.51: VoIP - Adding alternative addresses

Note that it's also possible to register phones in:

Advanced Configurations - Telephony - Registered Phones

This option is only valid, if it isn't necessary to attribute a specific IP address to the phone's, DNS, DHCP and LDAP record. It is possible to add a phone just by filling the field relating to the name and the access password.