Polycom IP 600 User Manual

Sample Application Configuration

March, 2008 Edition

1725-47016-001 Rev. A1

SIP 3.0.0

Guide for the SoundPoint

®

IP/SoundStation® IP Family

SIP 3.0.0

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About This Guide

The Sample Application Configuration Guide for the SoundPoint
IP/SoundStation IP family is for administrators and users of SoundPoint
IP/SoundStation IP phones.

The following related documents for SoundPoint IP/SoundStation IP family
are available:

• User Guides, which describe the basic and advanced features available on
the phones

• Administrator’s Guide, which describes how to configure, customize,
manage, and troubleshoot SoundPoint IP/SoundStation IP phone systems

• Developer’s Guide, which assists in the development of applications that
run on the SoundPoint IP/SoundStation IP phone’s Microbrowser

• Technical Bulletins, which describe workarounds to existing issues

• Release Notes, which describe the new and changed features and fixed

problems in the latest version of the software

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Contents

About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii

1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–1

2 Configuring Sample Applications— Administrator Tasks . . . 2–1

Using Sample Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–1

Installing Sample Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–2

Adding and Deleting Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–2

Changing Administrator’s Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–3

Configuring Your User’s Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–4

Configuring Sample Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–4

Configuring Stock Ticker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–5

Configuring Weather Feed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–7

Configuring News Feed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–10

Configuring Thought of the Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–12

3 Customizing Sample Applications— User Tasks . . . . . . . . . 3–1

Customizing Sample Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–1

Customizing Stock Ticker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–2

Customizing Weather Feed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–3

Customizing News Feed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–5

Customizing Thought of the Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–6

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Index–1

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Overview

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You can configure your company’s SoundPoint IP and SoundStation IP
phones to display certain information in the idle display and Microbrowser,
such as stock ticker and news or weather feeds.

This chapter provides an overview of the sample applications available on the
SoundPoint IP 330/320, 430, 501, 550, 600, 601, and 650 desktop phones and
SoundStation IP 4000 conference phone. These sample applications are
supported on the phones running SIP 2.2 or later. These applications include:

• Stock ticker

• Weather feed

Note

• News feed

• Thought of the day

System administrators determine if the sample applications will be displayed
on user’s phones through a downloadable utility. Users can change the display
of the sample applications that run on the phone’s idle display or
Microbrowser.

If you are a system administrator:

• Refer to Configuring Sample Applications— Administrator Tasks on page

2-1 for instructions on how to configure the SoundPoint IP and

SoundStation IP phones in your organization to run the sample
applications.

• For more information on the Microbrowser itself, refer to the Web
Application Developer’s Guide for the SoundPoint IP / SoundStation IP Family

at http://www.polycom.com/support/voicedocumentation/.

If you are a user:

• Refer to Customizing Sample Applications— User Tasks on page 3-1 for
instructions on how to configure your SoundPoint IP or SoundStation IP
phone to run the sample applications.

Polycom is not responsible for supporting these sample applications or any
applications that you create from these samples.

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Configuring Sample Applications—
Administrator Tasks

This chapter provides information for system administrators on how to
configure the SoundPoint IP and SoundStation IP phones to run the following
sample applications:

• Stock Ticker

• Weather Feed

• News Feed

• Thought of the Day

First refer to the following section, Using Sample Applications:

• To install and run the sample applications utility

• To add or delete users

• To change the administrator’s password

• To configure your users’ phones

Refer to Configuring Sample Applications to configure display of the sample
applications.

If you are a user, refer to Customizing Sample Applications— User Tasks on
page 3-1 for instructions on how to configure your SoundPoint IP or
SoundStation IP phone to run the sample applications.

Using Sample Applications

This section provides information on the following topics:

• Installing Sample Applications

• Adding and Deleting Users

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• Changing Administrator’s Password

• Configuring Your User’s Phone

Installing Sample Applications

Note

The sample applications are bundled together in one executable. The
executable must run as a web server on a Microsoft

®

Windows® compatible

computer.

If you have installed the sample applications executable before, you must uninstall
it and delete the installed directory from the computer before reinstalling it.

To install, run, and access the sample application executable:

1. Download the setup.exe file.

The executable is available from the Polycom Resource Center at

http://extranet.polycom.com/csnprod/signon.html

.

2. Install the executable into the desired location.

3. Once the executable is installed, select Start > Programs > Polycom >

Sample Application Server > Start Server .

To stop the executable, select Start > Programs > Polycom > Sample
Application Server > Shutdown Server .

4. To access the sample application configuration utility, select Start >
Programs > Polycom > Sample Application Server > IT Manager Home
Page .

The following login screen will appear.

Adding and Deleting Users

After you configure the sample applications, determine which users will have
access to those applications by adding a user name and password for each
user.

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Configuring Sample Applications— Administrator Tasks

You can also delete users at later time if you decide that you do not want them
to have access to the sample applications.

The following figure shows the user configuration page. The User Name text
box is indicated.

You must notify users of their user name and password before they can access
the sample application screens and features on the SoundPoint IP phones.

Changing Administrator’s Password

You can change the password that allows you access the sample application
configuration pages.

The default administrator user name is “admin” and the default password is
“password”.

The following figure shows the password configuration page.

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