asterisk users - Mar 2006 - OT - force Cisco phones to reboot

Hello to all
Does someone knows how to force the Cisco IP phones (7940 and 7960) to 
reboot weekly or monthly?
I think this would be useful because sometimes we change the 
configuration settings in the TFTP, but the phone just check the TFTP 
when he restarts...

Thanks
Jo?o

We send a notify message with the check sync event type. Not pretty but 
it works.

Joao Pereira wrote:
> Hello to all
> Does someone knows how to force the Cisco IP phones (7940 and 7960) to 
> reboot weekly or monthly?
> I think this would be useful because sometimes we change the 
> configuration settings in the TFTP, but the phone just check the TFTP 
> when he restarts...
>
> Thanks
> Jo?o
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It really depends on the number of phones you're wanting to reboot. 
Whenever we do a reconfiguration of our phones, I have a script that 
runs that night that pulls all the names from the db that are cisco 
phones, and does a sip notify cisco-check-cfg <exten> in asterisk, which 
notifies the phone to reboot in 20 seconds if nothing interesting 
happens (phone call comes in... browsing the interface... stuff like 
that).  In order for this to work, you have to put a file in the 
tftpboot folder called syncinfo.xml containing this:

<SYNCINFO>
<IMAGE VERSION="*" SYNC="0"/>
</SYNCINFO>

in order for the phones to actually reboot though.

That's what we do anyway :)

Aaron

Joao Pereira wrote:
> Hello to all
> Does someone knows how to force the Cisco IP phones (7940 and 7960) to 
> reboot weekly or monthly?
> I think this would be useful because sometimes we change the 
> configuration settings in the TFTP, but the phone just check the TFTP 
> when he restarts...
> 
> Thanks
> Jo?o
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