## Chapter 2: Administration Overview and Requirements

## 9600 Series IP Telephones

The 9600 Series IP Telephones currently support the H.323 signaling protocol.

The H.323 standard provides for real time audio, video, and data communications transmission over a packet network. An H.323 telephone protocol stack comprises several protocols:

- H.225 for registration, admission, status (RAS), and call signaling,
- H.245 for control signaling,
- Real Time Transfer Protocol (RTP), and
- Real Time Control Protocol (RTCP)

The parameters under which the 9600 Series IP Telephones need to operate are summarized as follows:

- Telephone Administration on the Avaya Media Server, as covered in
  Chapter 4: Communication Manager Administration.
- IP address management for the telephone, as covered in DHCP and File Servers for dynamic addressing. For static addressing, see the Avaya one-X Deskphone Edition for 9600 Series IP Telephones Installation and Maintenance Guide.
- Tagging Control and VLAN administration for the telephone, if appropriate, as covered in Chapter 7: Administering Telephone Options.
- Quality of Service (QoS) administration for the telephone, if appropriate. QoS is covered in QoS and QoS.
- Interface administration for the telephone, as appropriate. Administer the telephone to LAN interface using the PHY1 parameter described in Chapter 3: Network Requirements. Administer the telephone to PC interface using the PHY2 parameter described in “Local Procedures” in the Avaya one-X Deskphone Edition for 9600 Series IP Telephones Installation and Maintenance Guide.
- Application-specific telephone administration, if appropriate, as described in Chapter 8: Administering Applications and Options. An example of application-specific data is Web-specific information required for this optional application.

Table 1 indicates that you can administer system parameters in a variety of ways and use a variety of delivery mechanisms like:

- Maintaining the information on the call server.
- Manually entering the information by means of the telephone dialpad.
- Administering the DHCP server.
- Editing the configuration file on the applicable HTTP or HTTPS file server.
- User modification of certain parameters, when given administrative permission to do so.

NOTE: Not all parameters can be administered on all delivery mechanisms.

Table 1: Administration Alternatives and Options for 9600 Series IP
Telephones
Parameter(s) | Administrative Mechanisms | For More Information See:
--- | --- | ---
Telephone Administration | Avaya call server | Chapter 4: Communication Manager Administration, Chapter 5: Server Administration, and Appendix B: Related Documentation.
IP Addresses | DHCP (strongly recommended) | DHCP and File Servers, and especially DHCP Server Administration.
| Configuration file | Chapter 6: Telephone Software and Application Files and Chapter 7: Administering Telephone Options.
| Manual administration at the telephone | “Static Addressing Installation” in the Avaya one-X Deskphone Edition for 9600 IP Telephones Installation and Maintenance Guide.
Tagging and VLAN | DHCP | DHCP Server Administration, and Chapter 7: Administering Telephone Options.
| Configuration file (strongly recommended) | DHCP and File Servers and Chapter 7: Administering Telephone Options.
| Manual administration at the telephone | “Static Addressing Installation” in the Avaya one-X Deskphone Edition for 9600 IP Telephones Installation and Maintenance Guide.
Quality of Service | Avaya call server (strongly recommended) | UDP Port Selection and Appendix B: Related Documentation.
| DHCP | DHCP and File Servers, and Chapter 7: Administering Telephone Options.
| Configuration file | DHCP and File Servers, and Chapter 7: Administering Telephone Options.
Interface | DHCP | DHCP and File Servers, and Chapter 6: Telephone Software and Application Files.
| Configuration file (strongly recommended) | DHCP and File Servers, and Chapter 6: Telephone Software and Application Files.
| Manual administration at the telephone | “Secondary Ethernet (Hub) Interface Enable/Disable” in the Avaya one-X Deskphone Edition for 9600 IP Telephones Installation and Maintenance Guide.
Application - specific parameters | DHCP | DHCP and File Servers, and especially DHCP Server Administration. Also, Chapter 8: Administering Applications and Options.
| Configuration file (strongly recommended) | DHCP and File Servers, and especially HTTP Generic Setup. Also, Chapter 8: Administering Applications and Options.

General information about administering DHCP servers is covered in DHCP and File Servers, and more specifically, DHCP Server Administration. General information about administering HTTP servers is covered in DHCP and File Servers, and more specifically, HTTP Generic Setup. Once you are familiar with that material, you can administer telephone options as described in Chapter 7: Administering Telephone Options.