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

[Dave Fullerton]

Jeff LaCoursiere wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> Asterisk -rx "sip notify polycom-check-cfg 100" replacing 100 with the
>> number of the phone (extension).
>>
> 
> 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,
> 

Yes, you need the sip_notify.conf file in /etc/asterisk. The sample file 
that's in the asterisk source has the definition for polycom's in it.

-Dave