To connect the phone plug one end of an Ethernet cable to the PC input and the other end to your PC LAN card. Plug the free end of your Internet cable to the phone’s ‘Net’ input. The other end must be plugged where your Internet is coming from. Plug the adapter in its jack and connect it to the electricity network.

When started for first time it will prompt for an IP address. When you choose some non-existing one from your network you can administrate the telephone from the local site (the site is the IP of the phone). For the different model the site will look in a different way but anyway every single setting you can make to the phone can be made also from the site. Here is how the keypad is looking.

If you do not remember your phone IP you can find it in the Main Menu scrolling it with the left – right arrows. Let us now look in more details the settings you can do remotely from the phone’s site.

My phone IP address is 10.10.0.22 so I type it in my browser (remember that this is valid only within your company or local network). We will have a look at some important issues not all of them.


Settings -> Base

All Settings/Base you can adjust the basic settings you want. In Version you can see the Phone type, Phone version, the URLs for Boot loader and Firmware.

Below in ‘Base’ are all the basic settings you want to change.

Language:

Number Display Style:

Download Embedded Images:

Call Completion

IDNA (RFC 3490) Support

Actions on Ethernet cable replug

Auto Dial

Number Guessing

Block Dialing

Deny All Feature

Challenge Response on Phone

Broadsoft Call Control Feature

Call Waiting Indication

Dialtone During Hold

Disconnect on Onhook

Transfer on Onhook

Administrator Mode

Administrator Password


Settings -> SIP -> Lines

In SIP the lines are adjusted and registered. I have already some lines registered so this one will be my fourth and you will start from line one.

Here I register user ‘snom_phone’ which is placed on Asterisk 10.3.3.25 (in your case the IP address will be different). I do not have Mailbox for now and choosing ringing tone 8. Timeout when dialing is 1 minute by default. So you now show the phone that there such user at Asterisk.

Settings -> SIP -> Authentication

In this menu you show the phone how to authenticate on Asterisk when trying to register the user.

So now on line 4 your asterisk IP address must be typed in Realm field (my IP is 10.3.3.25), username and password are same as username and secret in sip.conf on asterisk (/etc/asterisk/sip.conf).

Settings -> Network -> Base


In ‘Identity Settings’ IP address is the IP of the Snom telephone (in my case it is 10.10.0.22 your IP will be different.). For Network mask 255.0.0.0 is ok. Phone name may be whatever you wish. IP Gateway must be the address of your gateway. DHCP must be off.

In ‘Time Settings’ you may add some timeserver if you are using any and the time zone in which you are.

Settings -> Network -> Advanced


In ‘Remote Configuration’ I have chosen never to update automatically and just to load settings on booting. You have some more choices here and for ‘DNS’ just type the IP address of your DNS server. I left all the other settings untouched (HTTP, LCServer, VLAN).

Settings -> Network -> Miscellaneous

Here you can adjust your audio device, auto answer functions and ringing tones.

In ‘Tone’ you set just the ring tones and melodies.

In ‘Audio’:

In ‘Auto Answer’

These are the main features that you have to adjust. Remember to reboot the phone after each change in order to take effect.

For more information about how to make the configurations in the Asterisk's configuration files please read our tutorial about the Configuring IP Phones for use with Asterisk

You can find some more info for the telephone from the local site of the phone when going to Menu/Manual for Snom190 or Menu/Phone/Manual for Snom200. You can also find some more useful information at http://www.snom.com/.

After registering the user on the Asterisk and the same user on the local site for the telephone we can try calling the Harphone using Softphone. For the test I will use Idefisk 2.0 softphone.

We registered a user snom_phone and extension to dial it 8888, let’s try it now.

And here is what the Asterisk CLI shows.