CM 4.0.1 S8720 as the HTTPSRVR

[teekow]

I have a customer who does not have a separate HTTP server with 1000+ IP phones. It looks like the DHCP scopes were set up to reference the CM IP address as the HTTPSRVR. Is this a valid setup and is there a way for me to use the existing CM server as the HTTP server for upgrading the FW on the IP phones. I started down the road of helping the customer setup a new HTTP server just for this purpose, but thought I would check here first to see if there was a reasonable way to use the CM server. It seems that these phones have not upgraded FW since they were installed 5+ years ago.

 

[avayasmith]

Not with an 8720 you can't. If it were an 8300 you could, although I wouldn't advise it for that many phones. You can download the Avaya HTTP (and more) server here:

https://support.avaya.com/css/appma...Downloads/P0102/C2009071016940981500277#files

i prefer clarity to agreement - dennis prager

 

[phoneguy55]

I dont think it's that you can't do it. I believe you can. Its just not a good practice. As DHCP will point to 1 IP address. You have 2 S8XX0 servers and either can be in control. Also it probably would be bad if you have a large group of phones reboot and all request upgrades at once. In this case a MVIPTel server is your best best.

 

[avayasmith]

i've tried using an s8700 and an s8800 as a file server and couldn't get either to work. never tried an s8720... i tried (on both server types) to use iis and tried using mv_iptel, no love. now, i admit that just because *i* couldn't get it to work doesn't mean it's impossible.

i prefer clarity to agreement - dennis prager

 

[gwebster]

As the number of IP phones goes up, you do need to think about scalability/resiliency of the http server. If you are doing a software upgrade of the phones, can the http server handle a large number of simultaneous requests? Call logs are backed up to the server - can it handle that load in a large/busy environment. What is the impact if your http server is unavailable?

There is the MVIPTEL solution, there are lots of freeware tftp/http server solutions, and there are extremely large scale solutions (think of what carriers use for their networks). What you use and how you use it will vary from customer to customer.