Enable Paging in Polycom IP Phone / Asterisk

After you ran setup-polycom in SSH to set up the Polycom provisioning files, edit /tftpboot/sip.cfg

There is a line containing the following:


This line must be replaced with:


Additionally, by default, when paging another Polycom phone, the phone will ring twice before the page is initiated. To eliminate the two rings, look at the line containing the following:


Replace it with this line:


Make sure your phones are getting provisioned properly so that it can read the changes and update the new settings. To properly provision your phones, at startup, click the Settings button and you will see different connection types available, and you can also enter the server's IP address. To update the settings, simply reboot your telephone.