Hello to all Im using X-lite, eyeBeam and Cisco 79XX phones and I would like to know the best way of implement a centralized address book system. Maybe the solution is LDAP, but these clients doesnt seem to support LDAP.Who should contact the LDAP directory? the SIP clients or the SIP server? Thanks Joao Pereira
Hello Joao, I'm using SER and Asterisks-based system, with centralized LDAP backend. To access LDAP I use SOAP and DSML.This is now used for every provisioning/management/billing/ivr activity in the system. In future I plan to have centralized phonebook based in LDAP. I think that having centralized LDAP directory and accessing it from clients via SOAP/XML is a best option. If security is an issue, SOAP/XML Digital Signature and Encryption could be used here. Maybe we will live until times when hardware vendors will support SOAP clients in their phones, or at least XML browsers or some sort of thin clients. I see SNOM is doing something in XML - maybe worth checking. I think that will be the soft-phone manufacturers that will first adapt idea of central phonebook, based on SOAP message exchanges with centralized LDAP directory servers. -- Regards, Arek Bekiersz Joao Pereira wrote:> Hello to all > Im using X-lite, eyeBeam and Cisco 79XX phones and I would like to know > the best way of implement a centralized address book system. > Maybe the solution is LDAP, but these clients doesnt seem to support > LDAP.Who should contact the LDAP directory? the SIP clients or the SIP > server? > > Thanks > Joao Pereira > > _______________________________________________ > Serusers mailing list > Serusers@iptel.org > http://mail.iptel.org/mailman/listinfo/serusers > >
Yes its how I started (ldap+radius( But it depends what you want to do. 1) If you want to have nice display in softphone (or hardware phone with LCD) of global system phonebook and/or private phonebook - I'm sorry, no vendor is supporting this. I was trying to convince few videophone manufacturers to support XML or SOAP, but there are other reasons they won't do it now (they all go proprietary). 2) If you want to just implement a SIP-like phonebook functionality, like "you hook-off, you press # and number of phonebook entry and system dials for you", then voila. You can do it yourself. Just write clever SER module, or PHP script and use Ldap. -- Regards, Arek Bekiersz Voipers Portugal wrote:> Hi, > I am using SER with centralized LDAP backend which is accessed by > RADIUS. Maybe it could work out for you. > Jose Simoes > > > On 1/30/06, *Arek Bekiersz* <sip@perceval.net <mailto:sip@perceval.net>> > wrote: > > Hello Joao,> I'm using SER and Asterisks-based system, with centralized LDAP backend. > To access LDAP I use SOAP and DSML.This is now used for every > provisioning/management/billing/ivr activity in the system. In future I > plan to have centralized phonebook based in LDAP. > > I think that having centralized LDAP directory and accessing it from > clients via SOAP/XML is a best option. If security is an issue, SOAP/XML > Digital Signature and Encryption could be used here. > > Maybe we will live until times when hardware vendors will support SOAP > clients in their phones, or at least XML browsers or some sort of thin > clients. I see SNOM is doing something in XML - maybe worth checking. > > I think that will be the soft-phone manufacturers that will first adapt > idea of central phonebook, based on SOAP message exchanges with > centralized LDAP directory servers.> -- > Regards, > Arek Bekiersz
This all depends on what your existing setup is, mainly where you are storing your sip users in the first place. No point duplicating your user list. The Ciscos consume XML, so just parse out the list of users via some scripting language from the DB/directory/flat-files or whatever you're using, and present them to the Ciscos using XML over HTTP. Check the Cisco documentation for the spec for the Directories URL. As for the softphones, I'm not sure what type of directory they use. Joao Pereira wrote:> Hello to all > Im using X-lite, eyeBeam and Cisco 79XX phones and I would like to > know the best way of implement a centralized address book system. > Maybe the solution is LDAP, but these clients doesnt seem to support > LDAP.Who should contact the LDAP directory? the SIP clients or the SIP > server? > > Thanks > Joao Pereira > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >