asterisk users - Nov 2008 - Question regarding keywords in sip.conf/users.conf

Hi guys,

I'm about to embark on a small (undoubtedly to get much larger) project 
to write a set of scripts to handle provisioning of phones - Snom to 
begin with, possibly with others (most likely Polycom and Linksys) to 
follow later.  Since I want this script to handle *all* aspects of phone 
provisioning (such as BLF buttons and so on) I need a place to store 
data.  My preference is to keep all phone related configuration in the 
one place - such as sip.conf or users.conf.  How would having additional 
keywords (most likely with a prefix of some type to reduce the 
likelihood of conflicts with real keywords) in Asterisk's .conf files 
affect Asterisk?  I would expect that Asterisk should ignore unknown 
keywords, but I'd rather check on this with those in the know first.

Any insights?

It should ignore the keywords, but you will get lots of errors in the CLI.

My guess is that if you put it all in a DB (and use realtime) you can
probably do whatever you want.

PaulH


Rob Hillis wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm about to embark on a small (undoubtedly to get much larger) project
> to write a set of scripts to handle provisioning of phones - Snom to 
> begin with, possibly with others (most likely Polycom and Linksys) to 
> follow later.  Since I want this script to handle *all* aspects of phone 
> provisioning (such as BLF buttons and so on) I need a place to store 
> data.  My preference is to keep all phone related configuration in the 
> one place - such as sip.conf or users.conf.  How would having additional 
> keywords (most likely with a prefix of some type to reduce the 
> likelihood of conflicts with real keywords) in Asterisk's .conf files 
> affect Asterisk?  I would expect that Asterisk should ignore unknown 
> keywords, but I'd rather check on this with those in the know first.
>
> Any insights?
>
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