SPA phone with cucm9

https://supportforums.cisco.com/document/50491/how-register-third-party-sip-phones-communications-manager

Do i have to download Ekiga for this?

I cant get the phone to work.  Can someone please give me the idiot version of the answer?  I added the phone by the instructions but it doesnt tell me how the phone links to cucm or how cucm recognizes the phone or if i need ekiga or anything else that helps.

Once you add the device in CUCM as shown in the link, you need to give you SPA Phone an IP address.

Open a web browser and point it to the IP address you gave to the SPA, and you will see the web interface, on which you need to point the SPA to the CUCM address. Go back to the link I gave you and scroll to the section called WRP 400 ATA, which is a different device than your SPA phone, but uses a pretty similar web interface. Follow the same steps to provision the SPA, reboot it, and it should start registering to CUCM.

Thanks Willy.  I dont mean to seem cranky, but after a while this is starting to drive me nuts getting this sap phone and my users droids/iphones to work with cucm.

No worries, where are you at at this point?

I have the web interface up.  What section is the cucm address in?

So i see on the link that the cucm address goes in proxy but there is nothing on the spa phone that i see that has user id or proxy.   Maybe im just missing something

Would it be the discovery address in the phone itself?

K I got a hold of a PDF showing how the web interface should look like:

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/unified-communications/unified-communications-manager-express/spa_polycom_application.pdf

As per page 5, go to the Ext1 tab and fill out the Display Name and User ID with the directory number that you configured back in Callmanager for the 3rd party sip basic device.

You should have configured the Digest User field in Callmanager, on the phone configuration page. There, you assigned a User that CM is going to check for password when the SPA tries to register. Use that same User name and fill out the Auth ID field on the SPA Ext1 page, select yes for the Use Auth ID option, and enter same password that the user has configured in CM under User > End User section.

I think, not sure, but I think that in that same page there is a PRoxy and Registration section, where you can fill out the PRoxy field with Callmanager's IP.

I got the phone registered with CUCM and have my ext on line 1.   Line 1 is lit up in amber and i have no dial tone?

Also is there a way to tell the phone not to ask me to log in everytime i need to access settings?

I was wrong earlier.   The phone has my ext on it but it is not registered with cucm yet.  It also is not talking to its tftp server.  Should cucm 9 come with a firmware file for this phone or is this something i have to get seperately?

Callmanager is not meant to use SPA phones, therefore it doesn't come bundled with those files. You need to upload firmware files through a separate TFTP, or you can upload the necessary files to Callmanager's builint TFTP server, though this is not my recommendation.

Now, if you are looking to provision your phone, then TFTP is not needed. If already running SIP firmware, you are not supposed to feed the phone any other file through TFTP. What is the phone showing in Callmanager when you list it? Unknown? Rejected?

Unknown.

Means most likely Callmanager is not even aware of that device trying to register.

RIght, so im stuck ........      I wish i had half of your knowledge on this lol.

I  wish I had a way into your system..... like TeamViewer or something.

Im probably just going to return this phone and go back to using a 7965 instead.   I was hoping this sap phone would be a good alternative but i can see its not.

yup, I would rather stick with the 7965, and run it as a SIP phone if you need to. Cisco SIP phones support most of the features in CUCM.

Hope that goes well.

Thank You.   I am also going to put in a ticket for making my android and iphones work with cucm.  IM sure ill chat with you again on that lol.   I appreciate all of your expertise.

Welcome!