[Asterisk-Users] Cisco 7940 Reboot

[Kristian Kielhofner]

Joseph wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 11:36 -0600, Aaron Daniel wrote:
> 
>>We've currently got 4 servers, and anytime we make any major 
>>modifications to the servers, the phones have to be rebooted.  We've got 
>>about 55 cisco 7940's (which is going to steadily increase over the next 
>>few months), does anyone know of a way to reboot the phones without 
>>using the telnet function?  The powers that be here don't like the 
>>telnet cause it's insecure, and I can't really find any other way to do 
>>the reboot.  Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> You can secure the network that the phones have access to via a vlan
> that restricts who can telnet to the phones.
> 
> Or you can move the phones to chan_sccp which lets you restart or reset
> the phones from the * console.

Or you can keep using the phones with SIP and use sip_notify.  I think 
Ciscos support it.

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Kristian Kielhofner