[asterisk-users] reset Polycom phones remotely

[Rob Schall]

If all you need is a soft reboot to load config files and want to do it
remotely, there is no need to cut power to the phones. I know this works
on polycom 501 and 601s. I assume it would work on other polycoms as well.

asterisk -rx 'sip notify polycom-check-cfg 192.168.1.XXX '

There is a setting in the phone configs that needs to be turned on to
allow this, but after you reboot the phone by hand once with that
setting, you can reset your phones via and machine on the network that
has access to that asterisk box as root. You can also turn it into a
script it you needed to and it would look something like:

#!/usr/bin/perl

$phone = shift;
if($phone == ""){
    print "No Phone IP Address Specified (sipReboot 192.168.xxx.xxx)\n";
    exit();
}
print "Resetting phone: $phone\n";
my @sippeers = `asterisk -rx \'sip notify polycom-check-cfg $phone \'`;
print "Reset complete\n"

then to run it, ./sipReboot 192.168.1.XXX. This makes it easier to do
bash looping and to reset all the phones on the network at once if you
wanted to.

Rob Townley wrote:
>
>
> On 5/30/07, *Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC* <mojo at horanappraisals.com
> <mailto:mojo at horanappraisals.com>> wrote:
>
>     An answer to your original question: if you can get someone _to_ the
>     phones, on the polycom 30x's you would hold the VolDn, VolUp, DND, and
>     Hold buttons for a while to reboot.
>
>     For anyone with the 50x or 60x, you would hold the VolDn, VolUp,
>     Messages, and Hold buttons.
>
>     Moj
>
>
> Moj, is this more of a hard reset to factory defaults?
>
> Does cutting the power with a power over ethernet switch do what you need?
>
>
>     Forum wrote:
>     > I have provisioned a bunch of Polycom 301 phones to get the
>     config files
>     > from my ftp server.  Out of the 4 phones 2 get the config file
>     however
>     > the other 2 cannot contact the boot server.  I have reboot the
>     phones a
>     > number of times remotely (the client is 400 km away) through vnc and
>     > logging onto the web config internally.  No matter what I change
>     on the
>     > web config page it is not saved.  I feel I need to reset or
>     reformat the
>     > phones  - if so how can I do this remotely?  Can anyone think of a
>     > reason why these 2 phones cannot contact the boot server when
>     the other
>     > 2 can?
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Steve
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
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