[asterisk-biz] Successful Switchvox Deployment

[Steve Edwards]

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Brian Franklin wrote:

> I just wanted to share the details for a recent successful VoIP 
> deployment:

Congratulations.

> 1 TFTP server - free Solarwinds TFTP server running on existing windows 
> server

This seems a bit curious since this is a simple service to add to a Linux 
server where you would have superior text munging utilities.

> - Linksys phones uses individual config files for each phone, this is a 
> problem when you have 90 phones and need to make a change to all phones, 
> found a nice little utility that can find/replace text within multiple 
> files, this was a huge time saver

2 other approaches to maintaining a large number of similar files would be 
to use "sed" (the "stream" editor) or a pre-processor like m4 (ugh), 
preprocessor.pl, or Preprocessor.py. Both of the preprocessor scripts are 
from the Mozilla project.

I've been using preprocessor.pl for the last year and have been amazed at 
how much it has simplified maintaining configurations for multiple 
clients.

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Thanks in advance,
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