upgrading J series phones 1

[avaya770]

hello all! having some issues with getting the new J series phones upgraded. my goal is to flip them to h323, but first need to upgrade them it looks like. ive done many installations of utility server and MViptel for upgrading 96xx and 46xx phones with no issues. what all do i need to do to get the J series phones going? do i need to somehow disable TLS cert check? i dont have system manager or session manger going...just CM & Utility server, and dont want to do anything with FQDN or hostname...just simple IP address. i upgraded Utility to newest SP as well. thanks in advance

 

[kyle555]

if you use httpsrvr and not tlssrvr, it'll only do http and not care about certs.

Double check what sip firmware they're running. There's some stuff about the earlier ones needing to go to another SIP version before flipping to h323, but otherwise, I've converted them back and forth easily from the more current SIP 4.0 firmware to the most current H323

 

[avaya770]

So funny thing on that. http does not run, but https does. anything new on the Utility server to enable http? thanks!

 

[Wanebo]

Probably not worth turning on in a production environment and ticking of the network safety police in your company. Create a seperate lab environment and use DHCP in it to point them to a windows box with IIS turned on and serve it from that. Once the firmware is updated and you switch them to h.323 move them back to the production environment.

 

[jimbojimbo]

On the Utility Server there is a command you have to run to enable HTTP. Look in the admin manual.

As Wanebo suggested you might want to have a staging server. We do this for 802.1x to get the phones upgraded and SCEP issued certificate before putting them out on the network.