[asterisk-users] Polycom Phones start to break up after beingup a LONG time

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Danny Nicholas wrote:

> This is just a hack, but why don't you schedule a "sip notify
> polycom-restart" during "lunch hour"?  You could run it from a cron job
> using this line for each phone:
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> Asterisk -rx "sip notify polycom-check-cfg 100" replacing 100 with the
> number of the phone (extension).
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Hey this would be neat!  But I cannot get it to work:

Connected to Asterisk 1.4.23.1 currently running on pbx (pid = 15728)
Verbosity was 0 and is now 1
pbx*CLI> sip notify polycom-check-cfg 223
Unable to find notify type 'polycom-check-cfg'
pbx*CLI>

Must it be defined somewhere?

Cheers,

j

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> That's interesting - I haven't noticed this with any of my installs. What
> version of firmware and SIP?
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> From: Barry D. Hassler <barry.hassler at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 8:41:33 AM
> Subject: [asterisk-users] Polycom Phones start to break up after being up a
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> Has anyone else encountered this? I have a fairly large installation (~50
> phones, almost all Polycom 501's and a handful of 601's. We're running into
> a number of phones on which the outbound voice (Polycom phone user doesn't
> hear any problems, but the other end does) is breaking up occasionally --
> enough to be noticeable and make you say "what?". In each case, rebooting
> the phone has resolved the symptoms, but I'd like to know if there is a
> known problem.
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> most of these phones would be up for several months now (installed this past
> summer), and unless there are any power outages, would not be restarted
> specifically.
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> I'm planning on restarting all the phones over the weekend, but as this is a
> 24-hour operation, we'd like to avoid interrupting phones at all.
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> Barry D. Hassler
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