Obtain, Burn and Boot Installation CD

Download a stable release or development ISO from here, burn the image on a physical CD, insert the CD into your server and power it up.

Installation Wizard

When booting up from Installation CD:

• Press enter on the splash screen to start installation
  

• After CentOS gets installed and machine rebooted login as root / setup
  

• For starting sipXecs Setup Wizard press start
  

• You will be then prompted to choose a new password for root user
  

• Fill in network settings
  

• Setup sipXecs server as your DNS server (if you don't already have one)
  

• Configure DNS server
  

• Set System Timezone accordingly
  

• Set sipXecs server as your DHCP server (if you don't already have one) and then on confirmation panel press OK
  

• In next step Choose First Server option
  

• Define the SIP domain name to be used
  

• Choose to reboot the server when prompted
  

• After server restarts use password root previously set to log in
  

Server Configuration

Set superadmin password

Using a computer with network connectivity to the newly installed server, launch a Web browser and go to the URL displayed by the setup wizard (just the hostname of your server).

• First time you log in Configuration Server Web UI you have to set superadmin's password (enter a strong (hard-to-guess) password that you will not forget)
  

Log in Configuration Server Web UI

• Use superadmin for User ID and password set in step before for logging in Web UI
  

Configure Users

• Navigate to Users > Users submenu
  

• Create two users
  
  

• Users you created will be displayed in the main user page as
  

Configure Phones

• Navigate to Devices > Phones
  

• In the Add new Phone drop down select the phone model you are going to use (Polycom SoundPoint IP 300/301 and Polycom SoundPoint IP 321 in this example)
  

• After creating the phone navigate to Lines tab and Add New Line
  

• Search for the user you want this phone to be assigned (200)
  

• Perform the same steps for the second user - add new phone and assign user 201
  

• After creating the phones and assigning lines you have to send profiles to phones so the settings to become effective. In the phone main page select the phones and click Send Profiles button. Monitor status of action in Diagnostics > Job Status page.

Place a phone call

• After sending profiles the phones will reboot and you can place a call from extension 200 to 201.