[asterisk-users] Polycom config file location

Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC mojo at horanappraisals.com
Tue Jul 18 09:32:08 MST 2006


I understand, I was helping Alex to make the connection too.  I thought 
this was what he was talking about.

Douglas Garstang wrote:
> This is an override file. They are an addendum to the main sip.cfg and phone1.cfg files.
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC [mailto:mojo at horanappraisals.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 10:02 AM
>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom config file location
>>
>>
>> K, here's something a phone coughed up the other day:
>> <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
>> <PHONE_CONFIG>
>>          <OVERRIDES reg.1.ringType="17"/>
>>
>> </PHONE_CONFIG>
>>
>> and here's another chunk from another phone.
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
>> <PHONE_CONFIG>
>>          <OVERRIDES reg.1.fwdContact="312" reg.1.fwdStatus="0" 
>> call.callsPerLineKey="1" reg.2.callsPerLineKey="8" 
>> reg.2.thirdPartyName="" reg.2.type="private" reg.2.label="" 
>> reg.2.displayName="" reg.2.address="" reg.1.thirdPartyName="" 
>> reg.1.ringType="17"/>
>>
>>
>>
>> </PHONE_CONFIG>
>>
>> madness, huh?  I think these are situations in which 
>> configurations made 
>> to the phone had to be written here to override the global 
>> provisioning 
>> files.  These exist in the ftp account's home dir as *-phone.cfg
>>
>> Moj
>>
>>  > I'd love to see ngrep output of the communication between the phone
>>  > and the FTP server for this.
>>
>> why? I think the xmelly cfg files are proof enough.
>>
>>
>>
>> Douglas Garstang wrote:
>>> Been working with Polycom 301/501/601 for almost a year now 
>> and I've 
>>> _never_ seen that behaviour!
>>> I'd love to see ngrep output of the communication between 
>> the phone and 
>>> the FTP server for this.
>>>
>>>     -----Original Message-----
>>>     *From:* Alex Robar [mailto:alex.robar at gmail.com]
>>>     *Sent:* Monday, July 17, 2006 6:48 AM
>>>     *To:* Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>>>     *Subject:* Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom config file location
>>>
>>>     Our 501's upload their configs to the server by themselves... Is
>>>     this uncommon? Seems to me that if you had no config on 
>> the server
>>>     at all but pointed the phones there anyways, they should upload
>>>     their current set of files there and then default to 
>> using that set
>>>     of configs until the server is updated.
>>>
>>>     Alex
>>>
>>>     On 7/17/06, *Jerry Jones* <jjones at danrj.com
>>>     <mailto:jjones at danrj.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         If you at least setup your ftp server, and point 
>> the phones to it,
>>>         they will save a copy of their contact database so 
>> that will not be
>>>         lost.
>>>
>>>         Just edit and save an entry after server is ready 
>> and it will
>>>         create
>>>         the file.
>>>
>>>         No too hard to use the web browser and look at each 
>> phone to get its
>>>         current settings and manually create a config file.
>>>
>>>
>>>         On Jul 16, 2006, at 5:04 PM, Avi Miller wrote:
>>>
>>>          > Stephen Murphy wrote:
>>>          >> My question is: How do I get the current config 
>> files the
>>>         phone is
>>>          >> using off the phone?
>>>          >
>>>          > AFAIK, you can't. :( You can only provide new 
>> configuration files
>>>          > from your FTP/TFTP server. However, the Polycoms 
>> do strange
>>>         things
>>>          > when they've been configured in multiple 
>> locations. You might
>>>         find
>>>          > the phone overwriting the configuration files 
>> with its original
>>>          > configuration.
>>>          >
>>>          > That is not confirmed though. I've just seen my 
>> Polycoms do
>>>         weird
>>>          > stuff in the wild. :)
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