Cisco SPA921 - - IP Phone Provisioning Manual page 71

Provisioning Tutorial
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Cisco Small Business IP Telephony Devices Provisioning Guide
The profile rule undergoes macro expansion internally before being applied. The
macro expansion understands a number of values including the following:
• $MA expands to the unit MAC address, using lower case hex digits (for
example, 000e08abcdef)
• $SN expands to the unit Serial Number (for example, 88012BA01234)
Exercise
Obtain the MAC address of the test IP Telephony Device from its product label.
This is a 12-digit number, using lower case hex digits, such as 000e08aabbcc.
Copy the basic.txt configuration file to a new file named spa_mac_address.cfg
and place the new file in the virtual root directory of the TFTP server.
Replace mac_address with the actual MAC address of the IP Telephony Device.
Open the admin/advanced page, Provisioning tab.
Enter the following value in the Profile_Rule parameter:
tftp://192.168.1.200/spa$MA.cfg
Click Submit All Changes.
This causes an immediate reboot and resync.
When the next resync occurs, the IP Telephony Device retrieves the new file by
expanding the $MA macro expression into its own MAC address.
Several other values can be macro expanded in this way, including all the general
purpose parameters, (GPP_A through GPP_P) These can be referenced as $A
through $P. Macro expansion is not limited to the URL file name, but can also be
applied to any portion of the profile rule parameter.
For a complete list of variables available for macro expansion, see the
Expansion Variables" section on page 91.
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