[asterisk-users] Softphone that supports central provisioning?

[Salvatore Giudice]

If it's a law firm, they are probably using Windows. I believe the initial
post mentioned they were using Counterpath  as well. BTW, if you are using
X-ten, you can script a launcher application which can perform your
provisioning download/authentication and provision the client by setting the
appropriate registry entries. The part that sucks with Counterpath is that
it's difficult to generate the encrypted string they use to store the
password in the registry key. The work around is to generate sample
passwords and capture those from the registry. Use the plain text password
in your sip service and set the client to the encrypted string with the
launcher script.


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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Tzafrir Cohen
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 9:51 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Softphone that supports central provisioning?

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:21:54PM -0400, Michelle Dupuis wrote:
> 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.

Can you name a decent Linux soft phone worth its salt for which you
cannot generate such a provisioning system in 1 hour? It would
probably be custom and site-specific. The generic provisioning systems
used for soft phones require way too much trust on the provisioning
server and are lacking on the security side.

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