asterisk users - Jan 2006 - Grandstream Budgetone mass deployment?

Hello!

I am considering mass deployment of Budgetones 102. According to their 
website, remote provisioning (configuration via TFTP) is possible. 
Anyone has experience with this? Is this really working?

On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 11:42 +0200, Dmitry Ivanov wrote:
> I am considering mass deployment of Budgetones 102. According to their 
> website, remote provisioning (configuration via TFTP) is possible. 
> Anyone has experience with this? Is this really working?
It does work, yes, though I think you need to configure the TFTP server
address manually on each phone.

Personally I'd be a bit wary of mass Budgetone deployment for other
reasons, but the remote configuration stuff shouldn't be a problem.
Grandstream use basically the same configuration file system for the
Budgetones as they do on the Handytones and the GXP-2000.  Obviously you
need some way to make the files in the first place: when we deployed our
GXP-2000s I ended up writing a little Python script to create the
Grandstream config files (and the associated Asterisk config entries)
from input data in a Gnumeric spreadsheet.

p.

We do this routinely as a service for our customers.  How many phones do you
need to provision?  Do you already have the phones? Contact me off list and
I can help you out. -Mike

Michael Crown
Managing Partner
www.thevoipconnection.com
321.989.6728 ext. 611
sip:611@voiceserver.thevoipconnection.com 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dmitry Ivanov [mailto:dimss@telecentrs.lv] 
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 4:43 AM
> To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Grandstream Budgetone mass deployment?
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I am considering mass deployment of Budgetones 102. According 
> to their website, remote provisioning (configuration via 
> TFTP) is possible. 
> Anyone has experience with this? Is this really working?
> 
>

I had a problem with the scripts you can bulk generate, they are linked
to the MAC address you initially put in, so if the phone packs in you
can't just rename the file.

Lee

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Phil
Blundell
Sent: 30 January 2006 13:45
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Grandstream Budgetone mass deployment?

On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 15:14 +0200, Dmitry Ivanov wrote:
> On Monday 30 January 2006 13:03, Phil Blundell wrote:
> > Personally I'd be a bit wary of mass Budgetone deployment for
other
> > reasons, but the remote configuration stuff shouldn't be a
problem.
> 
> What reasons do you mean?
Just that, from my limited experience of Budgetones, they seem to be
generally a bit buggy.  But if they work OK in your environment, there's
probably no reason not to use them.

p.


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On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Phil Blundell wrote:
> Budgetones as they do on the Handytones and the GXP-2000.  Obviously you
> need some way to make the files in the first place: when we deployed our
> GXP-2000s I ended up writing a little Python script to create the
> Grandstream config files (and the associated Asterisk config entries)
> from input data in a Gnumeric spreadsheet.
does your python script generate the binary format grandstream files or do 
you still need to use their closed-source tool?

-Dan

On Monday 30 January 2006 21:48, asterisk@anime.net
wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Dmitry Ivanov wrote:
> > I have created dynamic "CGI-like" TFTP server so I will
create
> > config files on-the-fly. Now we use this system (dynamic tftp
> > server and Perl "CGI" script) for country-wide Sipura 3000
> > configuration. BTW, if anyone is interested I can send sources of
> > this TFTP server.
>
> you know you can provision sipura 3000 via http, right?
Yes, and I did it before TFTP. But some other equipment requires TFTP, 
and we decided to use single server.

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