[asterisk-users] ldap usage in 1.6.0

[Josiah Bryan]

Brendan Martens wrote:
> 
> Having thought some more about my issue I think I can perhaps ask my  
> question more succinctly: is it possible to get dynamic (or  
> "realtime") data from ldap within the various .conf files?
> 
> If there is not a convenient function for getting this in the .conf  
> files, what if I somehow specified a global variable within the  
> res_ldap.conf and referenced that value inside the other .conf files?  
> Is this possible? Sorry if these are very basic questions, I just  
> haven't been able to find answers to them. : (
> 

Here, I've written a perl script that rewrites the actual sip.conf 
itself (as well as generates a custom myexten.conf file, which is 
included in the main extensions.conf file.)

The perl script can read from whatever datasource you setup - right now, 
I read from a MySQL database of users, but I know perl can read from an 
LDAP directory as well.

This way, perl sits between Asterisk and the database/directory and does 
the mapping/translation required, giving more complete control over the 
sync process.

Of course, I wrote this script in the pre-1.2 days of Asterisk, but its 
still running fine on 1.4.* that I've got in production right now.

Cheers!
-josiah

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Josiah Bryan
IT Manager
Productive Concepts, Inc.
jbryan at productiveconcepts.com
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