<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="781155019-08022007"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">I can only speak for Aastra phones.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="781155019-08022007"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="781155019-08022007"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Central provisioning is very easy. All you need is one simple text file on a TFTP, FTP, or HTTP server which all the phones point to. To customize individual phones you add a second text file for each phone you want customized. The custom text file is given the name of the phones MAC address. When the phone reboots it first reads the general text file and then reads it's custom file which will overwrite any duplicate setting in the general text file.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="781155019-08022007"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="781155019-08022007"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">To remotely reconfigure and reboot phones you can configure them to check for updates to these files or for updated firmware at a certain time of day. You can also remotely reboot individual phones based on extension from the Asterisk CLI. Of course, you can also access an individual phones Webpage configuration based on it's IP address.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR> <DIV class="OutlookMessageHeader" lang="en-us" dir="ltr" align="left"> <HR tabindex="-1"> <FONT face="Tahoma" size="2"><B>From:</B> Rod Bacon [<A href="mailto:rodb@jasco.net.au">mailto:rodb@jasco.net.au</A>] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 08, 2007 12:46 AM<BR><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:asterisk-users@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users@lists.digium.com</A><BR><B>Subject:</B> [asterisk-users] Best phone for easy provisioning<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal">Does anyone have any recommendations for a phone that has easy to understand/implement central provisioning? I’ve used CISCO 79XX phones, and they’re great (but too expensive). I like Grandstream phones, but their provisioning sucks. <O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal"><O:P> </O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal">What is everybody else using in large environments where individual config is not an option?<O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal"><O:P> </O:P></P> <DIV> <DIV><P class="MsoNormal">----------------------------------------<O:P></O:P></P></DIV> <DIV><P class="MsoNormal">Rod Bacon<O:P></O:P></P></DIV> <DIV><P class="MsoNormal">Technical Manager<O:P></O:P></P></DIV> <DIV><P class="MsoNormal">JASCO Consulting Pty. Ltd.<O:P></O:P></P></DIV> <DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><A href="http://www.jasco.net.au/"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">http://www.jasco.net.au</SPAN></A><O:P></O:P></P></DIV> <DIV><P class="MsoNormal">Ph. 03 9432 6376<O:P></O:P></P></DIV> <DIV><P class="MsoNormal">Fax: 03 9432 6378<O:P></O:P></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal">----------------------------------------<O:P></O:P></P><P class="MsoNormal">Polycom's central provisioning is very straight forward and very powerful.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There is support for all major connectivity methods (tftp, ftp, ftps, http, https, etc) and the configuration capability is more broad than any other phone we have worked with.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I hope this information is helpful.</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva">Bryan M. 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