[asterisk-users] Using XML for configuration management, single-source-of-truth, etc.

[Darryl Dunkin]

You can store most of the configurations in a database which may be more
accessable to you.

Perl can also parse these configurations quickly enough if you know how
to use the input record seperator ($/) properly.

The only thing Asterisk will not store which you would probably need is
the actual MAC address of the phones themselves. This may be done easily
enough as comments in the users sip.conf section.

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Philip
Prindeville
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 13:51
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: [asterisk-users] Using XML for configuration
management,single-source-of-truth, etc.

I'm starting work on some provisioning tools to simplify plugging in and

configuring hard SIP handsets and conference bridges (maybe eventually 
MPEG-4 PoE video cameras that speak SIP as well).

Issue is that I'd like to glean as much information out of the 
configuration files...  but don't want to write a whole new parser to do

it (especially not one that understands templates and macros).

For instance, from the voicemail.conf, extensions.conf, and sip.conf 
files, I should be able to generate 90% of the configuration state 
needed for provisioning an out-of-the-box Sipura SPA941...  if only 
those files were in some more parsable format, like XML.

How much effort would it be to add an application that traverses the 
configuration state and writes it out as an XML flat file?

Or perhaps at some point in the future, Asterisk's configuration files 
could be represented as XML natively (did someone in the back row just 
show "gconf"???).

I'm a relative newbie, so if I'm missing something obvious or there's 
been a religious war on the subject in the past, apologies...

-Philip


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