[asterisk-users] Softphone that supports central provisioning?

[Michelle Dupuis]

Tzafrir,

I don't know if you do many large deployments, but this would be a godsend!
We did an install for a large law firm with all lawyers wanting softphones
(eyebeam) on their laptops.  Centrally pushing out the install executable
was easy, setting up the parameters for each user was time consuming (i.e.
expensive).  With hard phones, we setup a TFTP server for each phone to pull
config on bootup.  We've even built a couple of tools to build config files
(text ini files) dynamically from a database.  This has shaved up to 8 hours
off a large install.

I think you're confusing installation with configuration.  Without ascii
config files (or a tool from the mfg to create binary config files from a
script), each soft device must manually configured.

Michelle Dupuis
Technical Support Specialist

Generation Software - Linux and Asterisk solutions and support.  Visit us at
www.generationd.com
 


-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Tzafrir Cohen
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 9:01 PM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Softphone that supports central provisioning?

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 11:48:20AM -0400, James FitzGibbon wrote:
> Has anyone found a softphone that supports pulling it's configuration 
> from a central server via TFTP/FTP/HTTP, much like hard desk phones use?

Why would you want to do that?

There are well-known and established tools to "provision" (centrally
configure) software running on computers in a entwork. Why should the soft
phones be configured any differently?

What OS do you use on the desktops?

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