asterisk users - Jul 2008 - Changinf Polycom-501 config server from remote?

Hello,

  Our Polycom-501 phones are set to retreive their config for the server by a
static configuation defined at the phones (boot servers). Is there any way to
change it remotely? I found no relevant field in the internal WEB browser, nor
anything in the configuration files (sip.conf and phone1.conf).

                                              Thanks! __Yehavi:

I contacted Polycom support about this a few weeks ago - their answer
was that is was not possible.

We found that hand-configured phones had to be reset by "reset device
setting" in the Polycom phone menu then Option 66 in a DHCP server
would override whatever was hand-configured and allow you to
auto-provision.

Robert

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Yehavi Bourvine +972-8-9489444
<YEHAVI at vms.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  Our Polycom-501 phones are set to retreive their config for the server by
a
> static configuation defined at the phones (boot servers). Is there any way
to
> change it remotely? I found no relevant field in the internal WEB browser,
nor
> anything in the configuration files (sip.conf and phone1.conf).
>
>                                              Thanks! __Yehavi:
>
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There are many parameters that cannot be defined via the web GUI. These
must be defined in the config files. Uptake of the configs is only done
at boot time. I recall that the www.voip-info.org wiki has a Perl
script for remote forcing a reboot of Polycom phones.

Michael

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:27:41 -0700, Robert McNaught wrote:
>I contacted Polycom support about this a few weeks ago - their answer
>was that is was not possible.
>
>We found that hand-configured phones had to be reset by "reset device
>setting" in the Polycom phone menu then Option 66 in a DHCP server
>would override whatever was hand-configured and allow you to
>auto-provision.
>
>Robert
>
>On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Yehavi Bourvine +972-8-9489444
><YEHAVI at vms.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>  Our Polycom-501 phones are set to retreive their config for the server
by a
>> static configuation defined at the phones (boot servers). Is there any
way to
>> change it remotely? I found no relevant field in the internal WEB
browser, nor
>> anything in the configuration files (sip.conf and phone1.conf).
>>
>>                                              Thanks! __Yehavi:
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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