asterisk users - Jun 2011 - OT - Polycom - Which provisioning protocol to choose ?

Hi,

Among TFTP, FTP, HTTP and others, which protocol would you select to
provision Polycom phones.
At the moment, I'm using TFTP but I'm wondering if I should pick
something
else.

The reasons I'm asking are :
- with the TFTP server I'm using, you can't upload a file that don't
already
exists,
- I'm reading errors in logs (read: Connection refused) I can't explain.

I would say HTTP is the more natural successor to TFTP in this case but
would be happy to hear from others.

Regards.
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On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Olivier <oza_4h07 at yahoo.fr>
wrote:
> Among TFTP, FTP, HTTP and others, which protocol would you select to
> provision Polycom phones.
> At the moment, I'm using TFTP but I'm wondering if I should pick
something
> else.
I use HTTP at home for better boot time and FTP is the server is
distant. I didn't like using TFTP because I didn't want to install yet
another server. If you already run one, it may be the best choice.

:r

Personally I would use HTTP too.

Simple reason: You are much more flexible with it and a in most
scnearios you have a webserver running anyway.

I build some PHP-Script to provision SNOM VoIP phones for mass
deployment and it works like a charm.


Regards,
Ruben

2011/6/29 Ruben R?gels <ruben.roegels at jumping-frog.org>
> Personally I would use HTTP too.
>
> Simple reason: You are much more flexible with it and a in most
> scnearios you have a webserver running anyway.
>
> I build some PHP-Script to provision SNOM VoIP phones for mass
> deployment and it works like a charm.
>
What is specific to Polycom phones is that they upload several files (log
files, config files) which not easy to handle for casual TFTP server.
>
>
> Regards,
> Ruben
>
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On 06/29/2011 11:58 AM, Olivier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Among TFTP, FTP, HTTP and others, which protocol would you select to
> provision Polycom phones.
> At the moment, I'm using TFTP but I'm wondering if I should pick
> something else.
>
We use HTTP(S) for our system with a few thousand phones.

It's much more flexible than using TFTP and with scripts you can easily 
generate configs on-the-fly for different phones.

Regards,
Marius