Configuring a 1140e

[NateRD25]

I am having issues configuring my 1140e. I can get to the config menu, or at least I could before. And now it is asking for an Admin Password.

I am totally lost.

 

[nessman]

When the phone powers up and displays NORTEL (in plain text - not the bitmapped logo), you press the 4 soft keys left to right, correct? The password to get in these phones is 26567*738 (COLOR*SET)

 

[NateRD25]

Was able to get that far. Where I get screwed up is with S1 and S1 PK. Is that my signaling servers?

 

[nessman]

Yes - S1 is your primary sig server.

 

[NateRD25]

My sig server has a TLAN and an ELAN which one would I use as S1 and S2?

 

[nessman]

The TLAN addresses of your primary and secondary sig servers.

Or take a look at another 1120/40 IP phone, tap the Services button twice and it'll give you the phone's config information.

Better yet, use DHCP to supply this info to the phone when it boots up.

 

[NateRD25]

This is our first 1140e. We have 2002/2004 series phones already in use and am going off of those config sheets. Before we set DHCP to Full but we program VoiceVLAN to 502.

 

[NateRD25]

I set DHCP Full
Voice VLAN to Full

And I get a DHCP parse error.

 

[nessman]

You can use DHCP to configure your VLAN settings too. Assuming everything's set up correctly - all you need to do is enter the phone's TN on boot-up and DHCP takes care of the rest.

 

[nessman]

Double check options 128 and 191 on your DHCP server. It has to be formatted EXACTLY per Nortel documentation - watch your commas and colons *very carefully*, and the period at the end of the option string.

Also be sure your VLAN's are set up properly on your network switches.

Read on...

http://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/2007/10/dhcp-options-voip/

http://blog.michaelfmcnamara.com/2007/10/dhcp-options-voip-part-2/

 

[gwebster]

Best practice is to use DHCP and/or HTTP/TFTP config files for all of the configurable settings. Once you manually configure anything on the phone, you will have to physically touch it again in order to change that setting.

 

[allenmac]

+1 to gwebster,

We use LLDP to set the VLAN, and DHCP to set some basic options, then a provisioning server with TFTP running to supply the rest of the configs.

This allows us to make changes to either an entire class of phones, or a single set without having to touch it.

The best part, is when we deploy a new phone, there is no touching it apart from assembling the phone and plugging it in.