Automatic Provisioning of Grandstream Phones
Provisioning
When provisioning a Grandstream phone, you should first set the required settings on the PBX as shown below;
- You can tie a phone to an extension by adding the phone’s MAC address to the extension. Under the tab Registration for the extension, enter the MAC address of the phone you want to tie to that extension in the setting Bind to MAC Addressand press Save. This will tie the phone to that extension and when it is provisioned, the phone will get all the settings from this extension, including registration information, buttons, and everything else that is provisioned.
Next go to General settings on the domain and scroll to the bottom of the page to Provisioning Parameters, and select a default dial plan scheme and enter the username and password for the phones.
PLEASE NOTE unless you enter a password into the ‘Authentication password’ field the system generates secure passwords which are encrypted by the platform. You need to enter a password here or you will not be able to get on the interface of the phones.
The Authentication user, Authentication password and Authentication PIN settings allow administrators to provision phones and log into a phone’s web interface remotely. These settings enable administrators to use identical usernames and passwords for all devices in a domain, simplifying the authentication process from the GUI of the phone. The password will bypass users’ passwords (the web interface passwords), so users will not be able to use their passwords; hence, this setting can be used to keep users out of the phone’s web interface and prevent them from inadvertently changing anything.
Open MAC Provisioning
For security reasons, navigate to the extension level and activate “Open account for MAC based provisioning” as shown, to allow the phone to provision to that specific account.
Grandstream Phone Settings for Auto Provisioning
Log into the web interface of the phone, and according to the model, navigate to the page where you can enter the provisioning server address. In model GXP2200, the setting is called Config Server Path found on page “Maintenance” -> “Upgrade” as shown below. In other models it could be on “Upgrade” and “Advanced” page or something else that needs to be found from the documentation of the respective model.
In “Config Server Path” setting, add this URL PBXIP/prov where the PBXIP is the IP or resolvable domain of the pbx server. (the URL will be provided by Wi-Manx)
Make sure that “Upgrade Via” (if present) is set to “HTTP”.
Save. Now you can reboot the phone for provisioning.
