CounterPath Bria Professional 2.5 Provisioning Guide - Manual (Page 7)

Provisioning Bria Professional OEM Edition
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1 About Provisioning
1.1 Provisioning Functions
Provisioning of Bria Professional includes the following features:
• Controlling access to the VoIP service through a remote login. See page 9.
• The ability to provide a license key remotely. See page 9.
• Updating the Bria Professional configuration (changing the factory defaults). Bria Professional can be
configured differently for each user. This feature is optional. See page 15.
• Providing upgrades to the executable by making new versions of Bria Professional available to each Bria
Professional installation to download. This feature is optional. See page 15.
1.2 What Provisioning Does: Writing to Settings
Each provisioning function involves writing to settings stored on Bria Professional computer. These settings
control the behavior of various features of Bria Professional. For example, a successful login request will result
in the creation of new settings representing the account. A remote update may result in changing the value of
existing settings.
For detailed information on settings and the features they control, see “Configuring Bria Professional Retail
Edition.
1.2.1 Provisioned Settings Overwrite GUI Settings
Settings are assigned values in several ways:
• A setting has a default “factory” value.
• Some settings can be changed by the user on the GUI.
• Remote provisioning lets you can change the value of any setting.
At startup, the factory values are loaded, then the user overrides are loaded (overwriting factory values), and
finally values that you send through the provisioning response are loaded (overwriting factory or user values).
At shutdown, the current user overrides and provisioning overrides are persisted to the user file.
Keep in mind that provisioned settings override user settings. A user may complain that they change a value on
the GUI but each time they restart Bria Professional, their changes are lost: you are probably overwriting their
value when you provision.
The Bria Professional Settings reference documentation (a Microsoft® Excel® document) includes a column
that identifies settings that are represented on the softphone GUI.