Setting The Phone With The Pc; Connecting The Pc With The Telephone's Web Configurator - Siemens Gigaset A580IP Manual

Setting the phone with the PC

The Web configurator is the Web interface for your phone. It allows you to select the
settings for your phone's base station via your PC's Web browser.
The Web configurator on your phone provides you with the following
options:
u
Configure your phone access to the local network (IP address, gateway to the
Internet).
u
Configure your phone for VoIP. Assign up to six VoIP phone numbers to your tel-
ephone.
u
Load new firmware onto the phone if necessary.
u
Use Internet services: display text information on the handset (info services).
u
Synchronize the telephone's date/time with a time server on the Internet.
u
Copy contacts from the Outlook address book on your PC into the handset direc-
tories or back up your handsets' directories on your PC.
u
Manage the names and internal numbers of registered handsets and your local
directories
u
Obtain information about your phone's status (firmware version, MAC address,
etc.).
Prerequisites:
u
A standard Web browser is installed on the PC, e.g. Internet Explorer version 6.0
or higher, or Firefox version 1.0.4 or higher.
u
The phone and PC are connected with each other via a router.
Please note
u
Depending on your VoIP provider, it is possible that you will be unable to
change individual settings in the Web configurator.
u
The phone is not blocked while you select your settings in the Web configura-
tor. You can also use your phone to make calls or change base station or hand-
set settings on your handset at the same time.
u
While you are connected to the Web configurator, it is blocked to other users. It
cannot be accessed by more than one user at any time.

Connecting the PC with the telephone's Web configurator

Prerequisite: The settings of an available firewall installed on your PC allow the PC
and phone to communicate with each other.
There are two ways of connecting your PC to the base station Web configurator:
u
Via the (local) IP address of the base station
u
Via Gigaset config
Setting the phone with the PC
97