Polycom IP Phone Setup

How to setup Polycom phones for use with Trixbox:

Setup DHCP reservation with MAC address and Option 66, Boot Server pointing to the IP address of the trixbox On the phone, enter the Admin menu, go to Server config and change the boot method from FTP (default) to TFTP. Boot the phone. From the Trixbox [...]

Polycom Boot Server Config Files

Provisioning Polycom Soundpoint IP phones from a boot server creates a /tftpboot directory *full* of files, and I frequently forget their origin and/or purpose.   There is also confusion between what belongs to the Trixbox Endpoint Manager and what came from the Polycom firmware package, which makes upgrades and merging differences rather difficult.

I’ve [...]