[Asterisk-Users] Why remotely reboot SIP phones?

[Aaron Daniel]

Usually just phone changes, but if you reboot the server, or reload 
something, sometimes the phones need to re-register and it's just easier 
to send a remote reboot.

Aaron

Steve Langstaff wrote:
> Do you mean changes to the phone's configuration, or changes to Asterisk's configuration?
> 
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> Garstang
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> 
> Polycom phones need a reboot after making configuration changes.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Daniel [mailto:amdtech at shsu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 7:57 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Why remotely reboot SIP phones?
> 
> 
> We have to reboot our phones sometimes when we do something server side, 
> mainly because the cisco firmware doesn't seem to handle everything very 
> well.  Usually it's just to pull new configs though, as we test more 
> features and roll them out.
> 
> Aaron
> 
> Steve Langstaff wrote:
>> Over the last couple of weeks I have seen a thread about remotely rebooting SIP phones from Asterisk.
>>
>> Is there something inherent in Asterisk that *requires* that SIP phones to be rebooted in a particular scenario, or is it just so that phones can pickup new firmware and/or configuration from their boot server?
>>
>> TIA.
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