[asterisk-users] Converting Cisco 7961 to SIP

Tue May 26 09:48:23 CDT 2009

Ahh I see.

In response to your other question about the auto-provisioning of Cisco phones, I wrote some scripts that work against an active directory and setup the phones automagically. I'll send the link your way if you'd like.

-Dave

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Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Converting Cisco 7961 to SIP

Did not mean to infer they don't perform wonderfully with Asterisk.  By "hack" I meant that Cisco does not offer any official support for them on Asterisk.

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From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of David Gibbons
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:33 AM
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Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Converting Cisco 7961 to SIP

Cory,

Precisely what do you mean by 'Anything other than Callmanager will essentially be a "hack"'?

I've got nearly 100 Cisco 79x1s in production using Asterisk against the SIP image. They're not 'hacked', they're set up properly against the Cisco provided SIP image and are rock-solid stable. I would pit them against any of the cheaper model SIP phones any time, any place, any day.

I've written scripts to do nearly everything that call manager can do without paying hundreds of dollars per user for the call manager software. Just about the only thing they can't do at the moment is BLF because they require SIP over TCP to handle SIP messages about BLF status, something that I'm not willing to implement just yet.

In the past, Cisco phones have had a bad rap as not being usable outside of a call manager environment. That's just not the case.

-Dave

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From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Cory Andrews
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Darrin,

The files you are using are consistent with SIP for Cisco Call Manager. Anything other than Callmanager will essentially be a "hack". I am not sure how proprietary the Avaya system is in regards to registration and "open-SIP" support. Asterisk and any iteration of it will support it, but Cisco hasn't really designed a load compatible with it yet. I can tell you that I haven't really found any configuration file generation tools for these files. The reason being is that these loads are mainly used for SCCP and SIP Cisco systems. There is a well known tutorial on how to "Hack to the CP-7970 to trixbox CE located here:

http://www.asterisktutorials.com/cisco-7970-ip-phone/

This may help get you jump started and pointed in the right direction. The only problem that may arise is that in the tutorial, the use a specific SIP load (8.0.3) which may not be available for the 7961G.

Cory J. Andrews
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From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Darrin Henshaw
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 7:40 AM
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Subject: [asterisk-users] Converting Cisco 7961 to SIP

As part of a project to move a clients Cisco phones to SIP to work with an Avaya system, I'm taking a Cisco 7961 we bought and adding it to our Asterisk setup. Now, I've gotten the firmware files from the site, the latest version is 8.4 which contains the following files:

apps41.8-4-3-16.sbn
cnu41.8-4-3-16.sbn
cvm41sip.8-4-3-16.sbn
dsp41.8-4-3-16.sbn
jar41sip.8-4-3-16.sbn
SIP41.8-4-4S.loads
term41.default.loads
term61.default.loads

Now I've read over loads of documentation on it, but am getting tripped up. Most of what I've seen talks about the older firmware versions usually 7.4. I have a feeling I'm still missing a lot of stuff. Anyone have any recent links or information?

Also, anyone know of a decent way to generate the config files? I'd hate to have to go through all of it manually? Thanks.

Cheers,

Darrin Henshaw

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