[asterisk-users] Using XML for configuration management, single-source-of-truth, etc.

[joakimsen at gmail.com]

What would you be reinventing? Asterisk can already get its
configuration from a MySQL database. You could even add extra fields
in that case to store the phone model and macaddress and integrate
that into your own provisioning tools.

Your application would then retrieve the configuration from the
Asterisk SIP database, parse it and generate configurations for your
phones. Very straight forward.

The other option is create your own database with your own schema and
then design your parser to create the asterisk configuration files and
phone configuration files. This method has the advantage of not
requiring any changes to your asterisk configuration.

On Dec 7, 2007 9:12 PM, Philip Prindeville
<philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
> That's sort of my point:  that you have to reinvent it, and it's easy to
> get wrong.
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