Search/create CPE profile

Use this panel to find a specific Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) profile.

Specify one or more search criteria listed below and click Apply filters. To reset the search criteria, click Default filters. To refresh the search results, click Reload data.

PortaBilling loads the list of CPE profiles automatically, once you open the page. You can turn off data autoload if you don’t want all the CPE profiles to load each time you open the page. To disable data autoload, click Settings and clear the check mark for the Automatically start searching upon opening the page option. When the check mark is absent, the CPE profiles won’t load until you click Apply filters.

Filter CPE profiles by their name. Type the profile name fully or partially.

Filter CPE profiles by the device model these profiles are used for. Select the needed device model from the dropdown list.

Filter CPE profiles by the entity they are managed by. Select the needed option from the dropdown list:

• Any – all available CPE profiles.
• Administrator only – CPE profiles managed by the administrator.
• Reseller name – CPE profiles managed by a specific reseller.

Select one of these options:

• Filter CPE profiles by their relevance:
  • All – all available CPE profiles.
  • Inactive/Discontinued – these are administratively discontinued and/or inactive CPE profiles (making changes to a CPE profile creates a new copy of it, so the previous profile version is shown as inactive). You can’t assign these CPE profiles to devices.
  • Active – these are currently effective CPE profiles that you can assign to devices.
  • Upcoming – the CPE profiles that you can assign to devices and that will be effective in the future.
• Filter CPE profiles by the date when they are effective. Click Calendar and set the date and time, or type it in the “yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm” format (2022-03-19 00:00).

Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) profile allows you to apply general configuration settings, such as preferred codecs and the SIP server address, etc., to all IP phones with this profile assigned.

PortaBilling creates a configuration file for an IP phone and places it on the provisioning server. A configuration file includes the specified CPE profile parameters. For example, to change the SIP server address for thousands of IP phones that are already on the customer’s premises, you can update the corresponding CPE profile. When an IP phone connects to the Internet, it retrieves its specific configuration file with the updated parameters from the provisioning server.

To create a new CPE profile, fill in the profile details, and click Save. To create more CPE profiles, click Save & Add another.

Specify a unique name for the CPE profile.

Select the device model this CPE profile is used for.

Choose whether the CPE profile is managed by administrator only or a specific reseller.

If you choose Administrator only, you can later make this CPE profile available not only to the administrator but also to all resellers. For this, open the created CPE profile and turn on the Shared with resellers toggle switch.

Specify when the CPE profile becomes effective. The default option is Immediately. To choose a specific date and time, select Specific time in the dropdown list. Click Calendar to set the date and time or type it in the “yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm” format (2019-03-19 00:00).