Changing the Group Settings on the 46xxsettings.txt file 1

[Warpiggy]

Hi everybody,

I'm having a little trouble here. I need to disable the data port on 2 out of the 6 floors in our building. I've been researching a little and it seems administering Groups in the settings.txt file is the best way to go about it.

So far i have added the following lines to the file:

IF $GROUP SEQ 10 goto NoData
goto END

# NoData
SET PHY2STAT 0
goto END

I have also changed the IP Phone Group setting on my test station to '10'.
The problem is that none of this seems to be committing to the phone. I have done a mute+CLEAR several times and have watched the updated settings file download, but so far the PHY2 port is still coming up as enabled.

My question is...on the station form, is the Group ID setting the correct oone to administer for this purpose?

Any info anybody has on this would be super!!

Thanks in advance,
Stephen

 

[DAVIDPAYNE]

Did you change the group id on the physical phone, or the station form on the PBX. It should work, if you made that change on the physical phone.

 

[Warpiggy]

I just got to the bottom of it...We are not running a CM version that supports the remote ASA GroupID update. When I updated the phone groupID manually, then performed a #reset (saving the settings beforehand - learned that bit the hard way ) and it all worked.

Thanks for the reply though David, if i hadn't figured it out you had it covered!! This site is my new best friend!!

Thanks again,
Stephen

 

[Warpiggy]

Okay so we have a slight issue with the group id's. We were administering 210 phones and around 40 did not take the change when we changed the group ID. The group definitely changed on each phone as i checked each one after reboot, but the data port is still enabled.

The stations are all of exactly the same type so that is not the issue, and to make things slightly weirder, i duplicated one of the working stations to one of the ones which didn't take the change (to make sure everything was identical), and it didn't make a difference. So at this point the phones are set up exactly the same, and all are in the same group, but some refuse to take the change!

Any ideas? The documentation for Group IDs is scarce at best, and i have yet to see this problem in a forum!!!

Thanks in advance

 

[Warpiggy]

hehe we got to the bottom of it in the end...all the data ports were actually disabled (even on the ones where the settings were saying enabled). we were testing for something unrelated and noticed that the port was disabled.

So anybody who has this problem in the future....don't believe what the phone tells you on the screen! test the connection

lesson learned