[asterisk-users] Softphone that supports central provisioning?

[Tim Panton]

On 23 Apr 2007, at 21:04, James FitzGibbon wrote:

> On 4/20/07, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
>
> I am not. The soft phone is not the only software on that computer  
> that
> needs cetral configuration.
>
> How do you configure the networking on those computers? The mail
> clients? How do you deploy updates?
>
>
> The fundamental problem, as I explained in my first response, is  
> that X-Lite/eyeBeam will not search for it's configuration in the  
> part of a user's "Documents and Settings" folder that is part of a  
> roaming profile.
>
> I allow that I may just be a complete Windows admin neophyte, but  
> my understanding is that the "Documents and Settings\username\Local  
> Settings" folder is machine-specific.  X-Lite and eyeBeam store  
> their configurations in this folder, and it is not copied back to  
> the server on logout nor pulled from the server when the user logs  
> into a different workstation.
>
> It was my hope that it might look in the Local Settings folder, and  
> if the appropriate directory was not found then continue the search  
> in the "Documents and Settings\username\Application Data" folder,  
> but this does not appear to be the case.
>
> So, it is more accurate to say that I want a softphone that I can  
> configure in an automated fashion (preferably via text or XML  
> configs) from a central server.  Whether that is part of a Windows  
> user profile or whether it is pulled via TFTP/FTP/HTTP is  
> irrelevant to this discussion.  I merely stated it because it is  
> what SIP desk phones tend to support and I am trying to build  
> something analogous with a softphone without reinventing the wheel.
>
> -- 
> j.

Snom used to have a softphone that emulated one of  their hardphones.
I don't know if they still do, or if the emulation extended to the  
config managment,
might be worth a dig....

T.