[asterisk-users] sip.conf best practices?

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Use the extension, and use grep to determine which account uses which
phone. For example I provision my spa9xx phones from a subdirectory on
apache called spa which on slackware is at: /var/www/htdocs/spa/
doing:
grep 123 /var/www/htdocs/spa/* will tell you which phone it is.

On 9/18/07, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com> wrote:
> All - I've been wrestling with how to best structure the sip device
> accounts on a new asterisk server I'm deploying.  All of the sip
> devices (currently only Linksys SPA941s) will reside on the same
> subnet as the server, and I have already set up a decent automatic
> provisioning system for the phones.  When the rollout is complete,
> there will be about 100 SIP devices authenticating and routing calls
> through this server.  The question is what to use for the username
> portion of the SIP account.
>
> Part of me says that I should standardize on using each phone's MAC
> address as the sip account UID, like so:
>
> ; Joe Smith, x123
> [000E08DA0409]
> secret = blahblah
> ... and so on and so forth
>
> Doing it that way is nice for standardization's sake, but it makes the
> dialplan quite a bit more complex.
>
> The obvious alternative is to use the extension as the sip UID:
>
> ; Joe Smith, x123
> [123]
> secret = blahblah
> ...
>
> This makes the dialplan *much* more simple, but when looking through
> sip.conf, it's not as immediately obvious what device should be
> authenticating with that account.
>
> Since this is my first large-ish asterisk deployment, I'm seeking the
> advice of those who have gone before me.  What tactic (one of the
> above options or otherwise) is best to keep your sip.conf sane?
>
> Thanks!
> -Erik
>
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> Erik Anderson
> http://andersonfam.org
>
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