Enable Peer Firmware Sharing; Profile Authentication - Cisco 6800 Series Administration Manual

Phone Administration
Peer_Firmware_Sharing_Log_Server specifies UDP Remote syslog server hostname and the port. The port
defaults to the default syslog 514.
For example:
<Peer_Firmware_Sharing_Log_Server>192.168.5.5</ Peer_Firmware_Sharing_Log_Server>
To use this feature, enable PFS on the phones.

Enable Peer Firmware Sharing

You can enable Peer Firmware Sharing (PFS) when you want a phone to find other phones of the same model
or series on the subnet and share updated firmware files. The phones are organized into a hierarchy and one
of the phones in that hierarchy acts as a root phone. After the hierarchy formation, the root phone downloads
the firmware image from the load server and then transfers the firmware to other phones in the hierarchy.
Before you begin
Access the phone administration web page. See
Procedure
Step 1
Select Voice > Provisioning.
Step 2 In the Firmware Upgrade section, set the Peer Firmware Sharing and the Peer Firmware Sharing Log
Server fields as described in
Step 3 Click Submit All Changes.

Profile Authentication

Profile Authentication allows phone users to resynchronize the provisioning profile onto the phone.
Authentication information is required while the phone tries to resynchronize and download configuration
file for the first time and gets an HTTP or HTTPS 401 authentication error. When you enable this feature, the
Profile account setup screen is displayed on the phone for the following situations:
• When the HTTP or HTTPs 401 authentication error occurs during first-time provisioning after the phone
• When the profile account username and password are empty
• When there are no username and password in the Profile Rule
If the Profile account setup screen is missed or ignored, the user can also access the setup screen through
the phone screen menu, or the Setup softkey, which displays only when no line on the phone is registered.
When you disable the feature, the Profile account setup screen doesn't display on the phone.
The username and password in the Profile Rule field have a higher priority than the profile account.
• When you provide a correct URL in the Profile Rule field without a username and password, the phone
Firmware Upgrade, on page
reboots
requires authentication or digest to resynchronize the profile. With the correct profile account,
authentication passes. With an incorrect profile account, authentication fails.
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