Web Configuration Utility User Guide
Web Configuration Utility User Guide
Web Configuration Utility User Guide
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About This Guide
This Polycom® Web Configuration Utility User Guide enables you to successfully navigate and
use the Polycom Web Configuration Utility. This guide will give you an overview of the menus
and walk you through the Simple Setup menu so that you can use the Web Configuration Utility
to configure your Polycom products and set up basic phone features. This document will not
show you how to configure advanced settings using the Web Configuration Utility.
This user guide uses a number of conventions that help you to understand information and
perform tasks.
Writing Conventions
Convention Description
<MACaddress> Indicates that you must enter information specific to your installation,
phone, or network. For example, when you see <MACaddress>, enter
your phone’s 12-digit MAC address. If you see <installed-directory>, enter
the path to your installation directory.
> Indicates that you need to select an item from a menu. For example,
Settings > Basic indicates that you need to select Basic from the
Settings menu.
parameter.* Used for configuration parameters. If you see a parameter name in the
form parameter.*, the text is referring to all parameters beginning with
parameter.
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Information Elements
The following icons are used to alert you to various types of important information in this guide:
Caution The Caution icon highlights information you need to know to avoid a
hazard that could potentially impact device performance, application
functionality, or successful feature configuration.
Warning The Warning icon highlights an action you must perform (or avoid) to
prevent issues that may cause you to lose information or your
configuration setup, and/or affect phone or network performance.
Web Info The Web Info icon highlights supplementary information available online
such as documents or downloads on support.polycom.com or other
locations.
Power Tip The Power Tip icon highlights faster, alternative procedures for
advanced administrators already familiar with the techniques being
discussed.
Troubleshooting The Troubleshooting icon highlights information that may help you solve
a relevant problem or to refer you to other relevant troubleshooting
resources.
Settings The Settings icon highlights settings you may need to choose for a
specific behavior, to enable a specific feature, or to access
customization options.
Typographic Conventions
A few typographic conventions, listed next, are used in this guide to distinguish types of in-text
information.
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Typographic Conventions
Convention Description
Bold Highlights interface items such as menus, soft keys, file names, and
directories. Also used to represent menu selections and text entry to the
phone.
Italics Used to emphasize text, to show example values or inputs, and to show
titles of reference documents available from the Polycom Support Web
site and other reference sites.
Underlined Blue Used for URL links to external Web pages or documents. If you click on
text in this style, you will be linked to an external document or Web page.
Blue Text Used for cross references to other sections within this document. If you
click on text in this style, you will be taken to another part of this
document.
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Chapter 1: Getting Started with the Web
Configuration Utility
This chapter introduces the Polycom Web Configuration Utility and shows you how to access
the Web Utility.
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3 Choose your login option either as Admin or User, enter the corresponding password, and
click the Submit button.
The Web Configuration Utility Home screen is displayed.
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Chapter 2: Navigating the Web
Configuration Utility
This chapter shows you how to navigate the Polycom Web Configuration Utility and access the
contextual help.
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Primary Menus The primary menus provide access to settings organized by type.
Login Status This text indicates your login status according to the login type you
selected in the login screen—Admin or User. The menus and features that display vary by
phone model and your login status.
Logout This link enables you to log out of the Web Utility. You can also log out by
closing the Web page.
Navigation Sidebar This panel displays the submenus that are available in the current
primary menu with your current submenu highlighted in bold.
Help Text Sidebar This panel displays contextual help for each phone setting and is
available in all menus.
All languages English Internal (en-in), German (de- English Internal (en-in)
de), French (fr-fr), Chinese-
Simplified (zh-cn)
If you wish to use a Web Utility language which is not available by default, you will either need
to place additional language files on your provisioning server, or download additional language
files from a Polycom hosted server.
If you choose a non-default Web Utility language, and its corresponding language file is not
available on your provisioning server, a dialog will display asking if you would like to download
the language file from a Polycom hosted server, as shown next.
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Choosing Yes enables the Web Utility to download the language file and display the interface in
that language.
When you mouse over a setting on the user interface, the Field Help updates and provides you
with the name of the parameter, some guidance about the parameter’s function, and available
settings. If a setting has been configured through another source, the setting will display under
the Configured Source Values panel.
When you click in a setting field in the main user interface, the allowable values for that setting
are displayed as shown next.
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Chapter 3: Navigating the Primary Menus
This chapter shows you how to navigate the primary menus in the Polycom Web Configuration
Utility. The primary menu bar has six main menus: Home, Simple Setup, Preferences, Settings,
Diagnostics, and Utilities. Clicking the Home and Simple Setup tabs enables you to navigate to
the respective pages. Mousing over the Preferences, Settings, Diagnostics, and Utilities menus
reveals drop-down menus that you can click to access various submenus, as shown next.
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The Simple Setup menu is designed to help you quickly configure the most commonly used
settings and features. These settings are also located in other menus throughout the Web
Utility. Settings you apply in the Simple Setup menu are automatically set in the other areas.
Language You can use the drop-down menu to select the language that your phone
displays. You can also specify the phone language by choosing Preferences >
Additional Preferences.
You can click the Add button to upload language files to display the Web Utility in different
languages. For more information on displaying the Web Utility in different languages, see
Using the Utility Language Selector Box. Choosing Add displays the following dialog.
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○ Click Select a file from PC/Desktop. Then Choose File to display a dialog enabling
you to upload a language file from your PC.
○ Click Enter URL. Then enter the file path to a language file in the blank field
underneath to upload a language file from a server. In the following illustration, the
Korean language file is being uploaded. Note that the language file must be an XML
file.
Time Synchronization The Time Synchronization settings enable you to specify the
server that the phone uses to calculate the display time and the time zone where the
phone is located. You can also access these settings by choosing Preferences > Date
and Time. By default the phone will use an HTTP provided SNTP address.
SIP Server The SIP Server settings enable you to specify the IP address or domain
name, and port number of the SIP server used by your phone for line registrations. You
can also access these settings by choosing Settings > SIP and expanding the Server 1
heading.
SIP Outbound Proxy The SIP Outbound Proxy settings enable you to specify the IP
address or domain name, and port number of the SIP outbound proxy server used by your
phone to send all SIP requests. You can also access these settings by choosing Settings
> SIP > Server and expanding the Outbound Proxy heading.
SIP Line Identification The SIP Line Identification settings enable you to specify the
display name, line address, authentication credentials, and line label so that you can use
your phone to make calls. You can also access these settings by choosing Settings >
Lines.
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Chapter 4: Using the Web Configuration
Utility
This chapter shows you how to use the Polycom Web Configuration Utility to configure your
Polycom products and set up basic phone features.
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To reset to default:
1 Click the Reset to Default button.
A confirmation dialog is displayed.
2 Click Yes to confirm your action and update the settings, or click No to cancel and close
the dialog.
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3 Press Save to save your changes or Cancel to keep your current settings and return to
the previous menu.
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3 Choose Yes to save your configuration changes and close the dialog, or choose No to
keep your current phone settings and return to the previous menu.
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If you press the Save button and have not made any changes, a dialog will display
indicating that no changes have been made, as shown next.
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Chapter 5: Getting Help
This chapter provides links to Polycom product and support sites. You can also find information
about The Polycom Community, which provides access to discussion forums.
Recommended References
You can find all Technical Bulletins and Quick Tips on the Polycom Support Web site at
http://support.polycom.com/PolycomService/support/us/support/voice/soundpoint_ip/VoIP_Tech
nical_Bulletins_pub.html
You can find all Polycom phone documentation on the Polycom Support Web site at
http://support.polycom.com/voice/
You can find Request For Comments (RFC) documents by entering the RFC number at
http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html
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