[asterisk-dev] Issue 16732 - device state change notification over manager

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Wednesday 03 February 2010 12:54:38 Russell Bryant wrote:
> On 02/03/2010 12:42 PM, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
> > https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=16732
> >
> > Haakon has create a patch for managing the custom device states from
> > manager. He's also adding events for device state changes in
> > devicestate.c that reports EVERY device state change, not only the custom
> > ones.
> >
> > As this can be quite a few notifications, I've suggested him that we add
> > a new class, called DEVICEINFO for these events, so that a manager can
> > decide upon configuration of the manager account if he/she/it wants these
> > events on the manager interface. :-)
> >
> > Are you all ok with that addition?
>
> That configuration option sounds reasonable to me.  That's the best
> method that we have for providing coarse configuration about what events
> are desired.

I'm fine with the general concept, but I think the name should be along the
lines of DEVICESTATE or DEVICESTATUS.  DEVICEINFO sounds a bit too generic and
could potentially cause confusion with information about SIP peers and other
types of information about specific devices.

-- 
Tilghman