asterisk users - Aug 2007 - OT Provisioning http-server-enabled devices (Was: Siemens Gigaset DECT base provisioning)

hello,

I would to define and unattended process to configure devices which are
http-server-enabled, use DHCP but do not use TFTP-DCHP to configure
themselves during boot.

Has anyone worked on such subject ?

I was thinking of something like :

populating configuration file from device web pages (rendering this as
generic and flexible as possible)
writing a script which reads this file and set each parameter using http
writing a script which monitors network environment to trigger previous when
certain events occur.

All this is not very clear for me, yet.

Regards
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On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Olivier wrote:
> hello,
>
> I would to define and unattended process to configure devices which are
> http-server-enabled, use DHCP but do not use TFTP-DCHP to configure
> themselves during boot.
>
> Has anyone worked on such subject ?
>
> I was thinking of something like :
>
> populating configuration file from device web pages (rendering this as
> generic and flexible as possible)
> writing a script which reads this file and set each parameter using http
> writing a script which monitors network environment to trigger previous
when
> certain events occur.
>
> All this is not very clear for me, yet.
If you want to go down this route, you might want to look at

 	http://www.pkts.ca/gsutil.shtml

which does it via http for Grandstream phones...

Gordon

I have never thought about it, but you may want to have a look at some  
http unit-test framework - they usually provide proxy services that are  
able to automate and script a generic http conversation.
l.

In data Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:13:17 +0200, Olivier <oza-4h07 at myamail.com>
ha
scritto:
> hello,
>
> I would to define and unattended process to configure devices which are
> http-server-enabled, use DHCP but do not use TFTP-DCHP to configure
> themselves during boot.
>
> Has anyone worked on such subject ?
>
> I was thinking of something like :
>
> populating configuration file from device web pages (rendering this as
> generic and flexible as possible)
> writing a script which reads this file and set each parameter using http
> writing a script which monitors network environment to trigger previous  
> when
> certain events occur.
>
> All this is not very clear for me, yet.
>
> Regards


-- 
Home of QueueMetrics - http://queuemetrics.com

What you describe is doable; we have a number of device configuration
wizards.  

 

But it is generally easier to use the device's bulk provisioning
methods, like https an XML configuration file to the device.  The
provisioning settings a pretty standard and don't change very often.

 

The problem with using the user web interface is that the manufacturers
quite often change the interface with new firmware releases, so you are
constantly updating the scripts.

 

--

Eric Chamberlain, CISSP

Chief Technical Officer

Voxilla - http://voxilla.com/

 

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Subject: [asterisk-users] OT Provisioning http-server-enabled devices
(Was: Siemens Gigaset DECT base provisioning)

 

hello,

I would to define and unattended process to configure devices which are
http-server-enabled, use DHCP but do not use TFTP-DCHP to configure
themselves during boot.

Has anyone worked on such subject ?

I was thinking of something like :

populating configuration file from device web pages (rendering this as
generic and flexible as possible)
writing a script which reads this file and set each parameter using http

writing a script which monitors network environment to trigger previous
when certain events occur.

All this is not very clear for me, yet.

Regards



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