[Asterisk-Users] FW: auto provision of IP501 polycom

[Noah Miller]

Hi Again Damon - 

I just remembered that the FTP server setup can be tricky, too.  The default
username has capitalized letters, and this doesn't work with a lot of FTP
servers.  I had to use ProFTPd to get it done.  I created a user account
called plcmspip, and added the following to /etc/proftpd.conf (or wherever
you choose to put your config file):

UserAlias   PlcmSpIp plcmspip


- Noah


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From: Noah Miller <noah at rosecompanies.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:34:31 -0500
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Conversation: auto provision of IP501 polycom
Subject: Re: auto provision of IP501 polycom

Hi Damon - 

> Has anyone been able to get the IP501 to discover the FTP server IP
> address (via dhcp or dns) and download 100% of the config from a
> provisioning server?

Sure, works great!  I'm not sure if you got the TFTP config from the
gentleman who suggested it, but this is really dependent on what DHCP server
you are using.  For example, we use Cisco routers, and the option to add is:

    option 66 ascii "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"

where the xxx's are the IP address (I don't think DNS names will work).


ISC's DHCP server is a little different:

    option  tftp-server-name "XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX";

Yes, it should be tftp-server-name, even if you use FTP (or HTTPS, I
believe).



- Noah
 



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