[Asterisk-Users] Re: [Serusers] adress book

[Arek Bekiersz]

Yes its how I started (ldap+radius(
But it depends what you want to do.

1) If you want to have nice display in softphone (or hardware phone with 
LCD) of global system phonebook and/or private phonebook - I'm sorry, no 
vendor is supporting this.
I was trying to convince few videophone manufacturers to support XML or 
SOAP, but there are other reasons they won't do it now (they all go 
proprietary).

2) If you want to just implement a SIP-like phonebook functionality, 
like "you hook-off, you press # and number of phonebook entry and system 
dials for you", then voila. You can do it yourself. Just write clever 
SER module, or PHP script and use Ldap.


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Regards,
Arek Bekiersz



Voipers Portugal wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using SER with centralized LDAP backend which is accessed by 
> RADIUS. Maybe it could work out for you.
> Jose Simoes
> 
>  
> On 1/30/06, *Arek Bekiersz* <sip at perceval.net <mailto:sip at perceval.net>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     Hello Joao,

>     I'm using SER and Asterisks-based system, with centralized LDAP backend.
>     To access LDAP I use SOAP and DSML.This is now used for every
>     provisioning/management/billing/ivr activity in the system. In future I
>     plan to have centralized phonebook based in LDAP.
> 
>     I think that having centralized LDAP directory and accessing it from
>     clients via SOAP/XML is a best option. If security is an issue, SOAP/XML
>     Digital Signature and Encryption could be used here.
> 
>     Maybe we will live until times when hardware vendors will support SOAP
>     clients in their phones, or at least XML browsers or some sort of thin
>     clients. I see SNOM is doing something in XML - maybe worth checking.
> 
>     I think that will be the soft-phone manufacturers that will first adapt
>     idea of central phonebook, based on SOAP message exchanges with
>     centralized LDAP directory servers.

>     --
>     Regards,
>     Arek Bekiersz