[asterisk-gui] Opinion, what do you want in the gui for users?

[Andrew Latham]

Steven

Would a provisioning middle-ware be the better option. A system described below.

Stations = MAC address
Extensions = Stations

1. Station starts up and asks for DHCP
2. DHCP gives TFTP or CONFIG server per MAC (lots of work here)
3. TFTP or HTTP configs to the phones with correct settings (magic)
3.1 TFTP or HTTP system ask the manager interface for info for extension
3.2 TFTP or HTTP configs created and sent to Stations
4. Station registers


Andrew

On 4/13/07, Steven Sokol <ssokol at sokol-associates.com> wrote:
> On 4/13/07, Facundo Ameal <fameal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have been thinking a lot about this topic and I figured out that it
> > would be be awesome if the GUI  had something to implement
> > provisioning with some of the most known IP telephones/gateways.
>
> Amen!
>
> In a recent review by Network World one of our open source competitors
> beat three very good Asterisk-based PBX systems not so much because of
> the lack of features within Asterisk but because the competitor
> included support for directly provisioning phones.
>
> However.... This may be beyond the asterisk-gui project.  It may
> warrant an additional project that connects to Asterisk by way of the
> manager API and to the endpoints by whatever methods are available.
> (We really need to lobby the manufacturers to adopt a standard format
> for provisioning, but that's not going to happen in the short-term.)
>
> What do you folks think?
>
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> Steven Sokol
> CEO
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>
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