[asterisk-users] Using server side phonebook directory with SPA941

[Eric "ManxPower" Wieling]

Maxim Veksler wrote:

> 
> Thank you Rob for the detailed reply.
> 
> It solves one side of the problem (In a very cool and unexpected way I
> must admit) but not the whole demand. I still would like to have a
> centrally managed caller phonebook directory, available from the
> phone's "Directory" menu. I did found some solutions[1] involving a
> push method with wget to each phone. It slick, but it requires some
> API between a php script and asterisk to query for registered devices,
> then making a push to them.
> 
> see,
> 
> [1] http://grimsy.blogspot.com/2007/02/spa942-personal-directory-ldap.html

When using SIP it is up to the phone to handle directories, not the SIP 
server.  Polycom has support for centrally managed directories, but it 
has nothing to do with the SIP part of the phone.  It is considered a 
provisioning issue.