multicast autoprovision paging setup?

[nathans]

Hi,

 

I'm probably missing something, but how do you autoprovision a whole group of phones to assign them a multicast addresses to be part of paging group?

 

I know it can be done one-by-one via the phone's web interface and I know how to create a paging extension telling it which extension should it be part of.

 

Thanks.

Nathan

[Vodia PBX]

If there is a paging group in the domain with a multicast address it should be all automatic.

[nathans]

By paging group, you a Paging account? I have one with a multicast address on it as shown on the screenshot attached.

 

They phone do not have anything showing on the multicast .

[nathans]

attachment for paging account

[Vodia PBX]

The screenshot looks okay. The phones are in the LAN I suppose? Maybe you have to run a PCAP trace to see weather there are multicast packets in the LAN when you do a paging. You can do that from the phone, then you don't have to install Wireshark on the PBX server.

[nathans]

Understood. But I would think that before doing a trace or anything I should be seeing the multicast address being populated in the multicast paging group in each phone, no?

 

If i manually enter the address, paging works. My problem is configuring 85+ phones manually...

[Vodia PBX]

You can actually also check the generated folder in the PBX working directory for the configuration that the PBX has generated. There should be something with multicast in it.