asterisk users - May 2005 - Polycom configuration

How do you configure your Polycom phones? Is it enough to configure one line
appearance? Or is there a way to configure a roll over?



Chris Mason
US Number: (646)722-0001 US Fax (815)301-9759
Skype: netconcepts

You can use one appearance to register which gives you 2 calls with 
call waiting, then use the others for speed dialing. Or have multiple 
registrations and use your dial plan to hunt between them. I hear the 
new 1.0.5 may allow this to happen easier but have not tried yet.


On May 13, 2005, at 8:57 PM, Chris Mason wrote:
>
> How do you configure your Polycom phones? Is it enough to configure 
> one line
> appearance? Or is there a way to configure a roll over?
>
>
>
> Chris Mason
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The new SIP firmware improves this. See the release notes for firmware
1.5.0. And I just posted the interesting bits to the list a day or two
ago.

Jerry wrote:
> You can use one appearance to register which gives you 2 calls with
> call waiting, then use the others for speed dialing. Or have multiple
> registrations and use your dial plan to hunt between them. I hear the
> new 1.0.5 may allow this to happen easier but have not tried yet.   
> 
> 
> On May 13, 2005, at 8:57 PM, Chris Mason wrote:
> 
>> 
>> How do you configure your Polycom phones? Is it enough to configure
>> one line appearance? Or is there a way to configure a roll over?

I have been playing around with sipX for a couple of days now, and while
I don't really like it (just feels wierd), I do really like the
management interface for provisioning phones.  I was wondering if anyone
had considered ripping this out of sipX or porting it to a simple php
interface or something?

If not I think it would be of interest to create a phone provisioning
tool for asterisk (although not directly in asterisk...).


Takers?  Thoughts?  proverbial bugger off?

Regards,

Sean

What you are proposing is quiet simple, and is done regularly. We
provision Linksys Sipura ATAs via a perl script with SSL and client
certificate authentication, as well as Polycom phones via XML file
drops. The newest Polycom firmware also states that ssl is supported,
but we have not made the conversion yet.

Both are driven by the fact that we are using realtime mysql

The Linksys Sipura products have a provisioning manual available to
authorized providers under a non disclosure agreement, so you will need
to either get authorized or get help from an authorized reseller of the
product (depending on your application).

Up until recently, FTP and TFTP where the only methods on the Polycom,
so just create a website that allows you to associate a Polycom MAC
address with a SIP user and put a button on the page that drops a
properly formatted  XML file in the FTP directory. Easy to do if your
sip users are in mysql or another database, trickier but possible if
your users are in text files.

The SSL method of verifying the client certificate and reading the MAC
address from it is more secure, but again, not enough experience yet to
know that it works with the Polycom, the ftp method does work reliably.





 


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> bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Sean Cook
> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 6:53 AM
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> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Polycom Configuration
> 
> I have been playing around with sipX for a couple of days now, and
while
> I don't really like it (just feels wierd), I do really like the
> management interface for provisioning phones.  I was wondering if
anyone
> had considered ripping this out of sipX or porting it to a simple php
> interface or something?
> 
> If not I think it would be of interest to create a phone provisioning
> tool for asterisk (although not directly in asterisk...).
> 
> 
> Takers?  Thoughts?  proverbial bugger off?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sean
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