Xorcom XE2000, XE3000 User Manual

Xorcom Ltd.

Misgav Industrial Park, POB 60
D.N. Misgav 20179, Israel
Tel: [phone]

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LCD Functions in the XE Series IP-PBX

User Guide

Overview ....................................................................................................................................................... 2

Functionality Supported by the Touch Panel ................................................................................................ 2

IP Address ..................................................................................................................................................... 2

Discovery of Assigned IP Address ............................................................................................................. 2

Manual Configuration of the IP Address ................................................................................................... 3

Matching Extension Numbers to Ports ......................................................................................................... 4

Overview ................................................................................................................................................... 4

Methods for Identifying the Ports ............................................................................................................ 4

The Identification Process ......................................................................................................................... 4

Restore to Factory Default Option ................................................................................................................ 5

Overview ................................................................................................................................................... 5

Booting from the Dedicated Internal Flash Drive ..................................................................................... 5

Adding a New PBX Version to the Internal Flash Drive ............................................................................. 5

Menu Tree for LCD Panel .............................................................................................................................. 6

XE Series LCD Functionality: User Guide Page 2 of 6

Xorcom Ltd.
Misgav Industrial Park, POB 60
D.N. Misgav 20174, Israel
Tel: [phone]

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Overview

The XE series of Xorcom’s IP-PBX appliances features a multi-function Liquid Crystal Display, or “LCD”,
touch panel. This feature allows the system administrator to perform several of the most common
administrative functions directly on the front panel of the PBX, without having to attach a keyboard and
monitor.

Functionality Supported by the Touch Panel

While the touch panel does not provide the entire range of controls supported by the Graphical User
Interface, or “GUI”, which is accessed via a monitor, it is considerably more efficient for specific tasks:

The touch panel uses a text-based menu tree to facilitate monitoring, maintenance and troubleshooting
of the entire telephony system. For example, the touch panel supports:

 Obtaining system status information, such as the

appliance’s IP address, status of DRBD (that’s “Distributed
Replicated Block Device”) used in TwinStar
configurations, status of the Xorcom Redundant Power
Supply device, and the number of current (or active) calls.

 Maintenance tasks, such as easy location of a specific

port / module / Astribank by channel number, extension
number (for FXS ports), or span number; restarting
Asterisk, DAHDI or even rebooting the appliance itself,
and creating or restoring a Rapid Recovery image on or from the internal flash drive.

 Configuration of system settings, such as manual configuration of the IP address and enabling or

disabling the DHCP (“Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol”).

IP Address

Discovery of Assigned IP Address

By default, all Xorcom IP-PBX models are configured from the factory with DHCP enabled. After

connecting your appliance to the network you’ll want to discover the IP address that has been defined

for it automatically by your DHCP server. Thanks to the LCD panel, you can now do this directly on the
unit, without an external monitor and keyboard.

Power on the server to begin the initialization process, which takes about one minute. Once the
XORCOM text appears on the display, the initialization is complete.