[asterisk-users] Prevent a Polycom contact list to be overwritten

[Brian Vincent (C)]

With regard to Jim's question: the phone will upload the contacts to a
file named MACADDRESS-directory.xml when the phone boots.  Copy that
file to 000000000000-directory.xml and all the new phones booting up
will start with that config.  

 

With regards to Stephen's question: not sure if when you switch to FTP
provisioning it will be smart enough to upload the existing contacts.
It should, but to ensure it doesn't get overwritten I'd make sure there
isn't a 000000000000-directory.xml file on the FTP boot server.  Even
then, I'd suggest trying to write down all the contacts in the phone
before moving it to the new network.  15 minutes of writing might save
you hours of headaches later if losing the numbers isn't an option.

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Brian Vincent
Copper Mountain Telecom
vincentb at coppercolorado.com 

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jim Freeze
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 5:07 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Prevent a Polycom contact list to be
overwritten

 

On 8/3/06, Stephen Murphy <forum at expansivenetworks.com> wrote:

	I have a Polycom phone that was setup without provisioning
through an FTP server. It has a number of contacts that where input via
the phone. I would like to add this phone to a small network that was
provisioned through an FTP server and keep the contacts already on the
phone. How do I ensure that the contacts list file will not be
overwritten when I do a provisioning?


I would like to know this as well, but for a slightly different reason.
I want to provision
501 phones, but I want to start from what is currently on the phone. So,
in other words, 
I want to download the XML file that is stored in the phone.

Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks

 

-- 
Jim Freeze 

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