Need help with 9611G SIP phone

[vitalissimo]

Hi everyone!

## I'm copying my reddit post because I was recommended to ask my question here

I want to preface my text by saying that I'm absolutely not familiar with Avaya products and IP telephony in general, so please excuse my possibly stupid questions.

I was recently gifted with a couple of 9611G phones which were previously used in an office environment, but they decided to get rid of these devices. So, with the help of the Internet I was able to change the firmware on these phones to SIP and eventually semi-successfully made them work with my SIP provider (sipgate). But I am still unable to create contacts in the address book on the device itself: when I press the "Contacts" button on the phone, the list is (obviously) empty, but there's no additional button to create or modify a contact.

So, is it possible with my current configuration to store contacts on the device? Or maybe it is possible to install some open source software on my Linux server that will work as an Address book server and will be able to work with the phones?

My settings file:

[pre]SET SIPREGISTRAR sipgate.de
SET SIPDOMAIN sipgate.de
SET SIPPROXYSRVR sipgate.de
SET SIPPORT 5060
SET SNTPSRVR xx.xx.xx.xx
SET GMTOFFSET 1:00
SET SIP_CONTROLLER_LIST 217.10.79.9:5060;transport=udp
SET ENABLE_AVAYA_ENVIRONMENT 0
SET DISCOVER_AVAYA_ENVIRONMENT 0
SET SIPREGPROXYPOLICY alternate
SET FORCE_SIP_USERNAME "xxxxxx"
SET FORCE_SIP_PASSWORD "xxxxxx"
SET LANGUAGES Mlf_German.xml,Mlf_English.xml
SET SYSTEM_LANGUAGE Mlf_German.xml
SET DATEFORMAT %d.%m.%Y
SET TIMEFORMAT 1
SET CUSTOMIZATION_MODE 1
SET ENABLE_CONTACTS 1
SET ENABLE_MODIFY_CONTACTS 1
SET CONFIG_SERVER_SECURE_MODE 0
SET USER_STORE_URI

http://xx.xx.xx.xx/backup/

SET BRURI

http://xx.xx.xx.xx/backup/

SET BRAUTH 0[/pre]

My web server is lighttpd with a webdav module, and I checked wit Mac Os X Finder app that the webdav folder is available and writable. Judging by the log files of my server the settings are getting downloaded successfully but there's no attempts registered to upload/download anything else. Here's a fragment of the log file:

[pre][05/Jan/2023:14:09:31 +0100] "GET /96x1Supgrade.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 914 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0) AVAYA/9611-7.1.15.2.1 (MAC:XXXXXXXXXXXX)"
[05/Jan/2023:14:09:31 +0100] "GET /46xxsettings.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 17 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0) AVAYA/9611-7.1.15.2.1 (MAC:XXXXXXXXXXXX)"
[05/Jan/2023:14:09:31 +0100] "GET /XXXXXXXXXXXX.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 2747 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0) AVAYA/9611-7.1.15.2.1 (MAC:XXXXXXXXXXXX)"
[05/Jan/2023:14:09:31 +0100] "GET /Mlf_German.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 169607 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0) AVAYA/9611-7.1.15.2.1 (MAC:XXXXXXXXXXXX)"
[05/Jan/2023:14:09:31 +0100] "GET /Mlf_English.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 166748 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0) AVAYA/9611-7.1.15.2.1 (MAC:XXXXXXXXXXXX)"[/pre]

I installed LDAP server and successfully connected it to the phone, the search function works, but it doesn't save contacts to the local address book.
Oh, and I don't use any Avaya software - I simply don't have it. I'm hoping it's possible to solve my problem using Linux and open source software. Would really appreciate your advice on how to enable the local address book. Thanks!

 

[avayaguy23]

SIP uses PPM data for contacts. You'll need to stand up System Manager/Session Manager.

 

[vitalissimo]

Is there an open source version of this software or there's only Avaya solution?

 

[avayaguy23]

Avaya only solution. As you are using Avaya Phones on a non Avaya platform, many features will not work.

 

[vitalissimo]

Oh, that's disappointing.
Thank you anyway!

 

[avayaguy23]

Here's a pretty good overview of it. Search for PPM data and it explains its an Avaya only feature using Avaya Session Manager.

https://andrewjprokop.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/the-steps-involved-in-booting-an-avaya-sip-telephone/

 

[vitalissimo]

hmm, apparently there's an attempt on creating a PPM server in PHP
I'll need to look into it

 

[avayaguy23]

I would also like to point out 9611G phones are basically end of support. You are better off obtaining a Jseries phone.

 

[vitalissimo]

Well, they were free of charge, and more like a toy for me now, not a necessity
I just like learning new stuff and found that topic interesting, there's just some things I cannot find on my own, so I really appreciate your help!