Friday, January 11, 2013

Provisioning (RingCentral) Polycom on GetJive

Moving a Polycom IP phone from RingCentral to GetJive
 
 
 
Here at the office, we stopped pushing RingCentral and switched over to GetJive.
 
I have 5 hours to learn how to provision Polycom Phones and switch them over to our clients GetJive account. I've only been working with VoIP for a year, and all my previous experience is with Cisco phones. Here's what I learned today:
 
 
 
Polycom provisioning instructions:
• Plug the phone into the internet, and the power
•It will say loading application – during that, press cancel press "setup"
• Enter the password ‘456’, then hit ok
• Scroll down to and select ‘Server Menu’ (Prov.Server/Provisioning)
• Set ‘Server Type’ to HTTP (NOT https)
• Set Server Address to (ADD PBX DOMAIN).onjive.com/p  (note: this MUST be lower-case)
• for (.) press *
• for (/) press # three times
• Remove everything from the Server User and Password Fields
• Press exit a few times, choosing to save and reboot when prompted.
If you need to Factory Reset, follow these instructions.
Polycom provisioning instructions:
• Reboot the phone
• During the Count down hold (1 3 5 7 for the 3xx and 4xx model OR 4 6 8 * for the 5xx and 6xx model) until prompted for a password 
The previous VOIP provider may have had a different password, so either call them and get it or try entering just the MAC address as the password.
• Follow the steps above
456 is the password for a phone that is not provisioned to Jive or is factory reset
8647 (voip) is the password for a  phone that is provisioned to Jive


Because RingCentral locks down phones they sell you, it's essential to DISCONNECT the phone from the network until after you have applied the new provisioning URL.