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

[Facundo Ameal]

Steven,
    It would be wonderful to have every feature you are talking about.
I 'll try to help in improving the GUI. Count on me.

Greets.

On 4/13/07, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:28:03AM -0500, Steven Sokol wrote:
> > On 4/13/07, Andrew Latham <lathama at lathama.com> wrote:
> > >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
> > >
> >
> > Possibly, but here's my goal in narrative form:
> >
> > A user downloads/builds (or buys) an Asterisk with the GUI.  The
> > README tells him to go and install all of his phones (Polycom, Snom,
> > Linksys, Cisco, Grandstream, etc.), then run the discovery wizard.
> > The discovery tool does the following:
>
> The idea with provisioning is automating. If it is not automatable
> (scriptable), then it remains a non-useful GUI feature.
>
> >
> > 1) scans the LAN and finds devices.
>
> How?
>
> For Cisco phones: using cdpr?
>
> What other method? scan UDP port 5060 over the LAN?
>
> > 2) Identifies them by either a SIP options response (using the User
> > Agent value) or simply by a MAC that fits within a known range for a
> > given manufacturer (is this data available?)
> > 3) adds the devices to a list (conf file, database, etc.) of known
> > endpoints.
> >
> > The system then builds a "guest" account for each of the newly
> > discovered devices.  The device uses the MAC address to craft a config
> > file for the phone (to be downloaded via HTTP or TFTP) or uses
> > something like CURL to post a basic config to the phone.  The system
> > also creates a PEER entry in Asterisk (using users.conf?) that points
> > to a [guest] or [unknown] context.
> >
> > This basic configuration allows the phone to dial 911, dial inside
> > extensions and to access the provisioning extension: the administrator
> > can dial an extension, log in using an ID and PIN and feed Asterisk
> > the new extension number for the phone via DTMF.
> >
> > In a VERY simple system that's really all that needs to happen.
> > Asterisk will update the users.conf entry for the device and move it
> > to the [inside] or [users] or [default] context and that's that.  But
> > wait, that's not all....
> >
> > In a truly integrated system the user would be able to log into an
> > AJAM-powered portal that allows them to control their system features
> > (i.e. features configured on Asterisk using the AstDB, etc.) but they
> > would ALSO be able to manage the buttons on their phone from the same
> > GUI.  They could set busy-lamp fields (BLFs), configure phone
> > features, etc. all from their portal page.
> >
> > One thing that I would like to try to overcome is the dependence on
> > the DHCP->TFPT->HTTP chain.  In some cases the PBX administrator
> > simply won't be able to control the DHCP options system in order to
> > configure the TFTP option to point to the Asterisk system.  If we can
> > build a basic "push" system that can update the TFTP and/or HTTP
> > provisioning address on the most common brands of phone, we can avoid
> > having to manage the DHCP process or server.
>
> Is there any decent "dynamic" tftp daemon?
>
> Be that by the way of proxying content to a nearby httpd.
>
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