[asterisk-users] Phone numbers and asterisk

[A J Stiles]

On Sunday 04 September 2011, neo haux wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It is possible to save all the phones numbers on asterisk servers instead
> of doing so manually in each VoIP device ?
> 
> Does SIP take care of such configuration ?

If you want your phones to be self-configuring  (which is a good idea even if 
you've not got too many of them to configure each one manually),  you will need 
a DHCP server and a TFTP server somewhere on your LAN -- possibly on a 
separate box from Asterisk.

The format of the required configuration files, and how to name each one so that 
it gets picked up by the correct phone  (the name is usually based on the MAC 
address of the phone)  should be in the phone manual.


You don't need to program speed dial numbers into each phone; just assign 
extensions in your dialplan.  You can use an AGI script to perform a database 
lookup and set a channel variable, to save on repetition -- and have a web 
page which reads the same database, for your internal phone directory.

-- 
AJS

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