[cisco-voip] Resetting All Phones on a System

[Robert Kulagowski]

Miller, Steve wrote:
> Is there any down side to simultaneously resetting every phone on the
> system?  We have approximately 1200 phones in our little cluster - 800
> in our main location, 200 in our other one and then about 30 phones at
> an SRST site.  We are going to be upgrading the firmware and I'm trying
> to anticipate any problems that might occur.  Thank you!

The downside is that you may end up with a corrupted firmware download 
that turns your phone into a brick.  (It's happened to us)

There's a Service parameter for Cisco TFTP (in the advanced settings) 
for "Maximum Serving count".  You may want to adjust that up or down as 
you see fit.