On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 09:21:54PM -0400, Michelle Dupuis wrote: > Tzafrir, > > I don't know if you do many large deployments, but this would be a godsend! > We did an install for a large law firm with all lawyers wanting softphones > (eyebeam) on their laptops. Centrally pushing out the install executable > was easy, setting up the parameters for each user was time consuming (i.e. > expensive). With hard phones, we setup a TFTP server for each phone to pull > config on bootup. We've even built a couple of tools to build config files > (text ini files) dynamically from a database. This has shaved up to 8 hours > off a large install. > > I think you're confusing installation with configuration. Without ascii > config files (or a tool from the mfg to create binary config files from a > script), each soft device must manually configured.
Can you name a decent Linux soft phone worth its salt for which you cannot generate such a provisioning system in 1 hour? It would probably be custom and site-specific. The generic provisioning systems used for soft phones require way too much trust on the provisioning server and are lacking on the security side. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +972-50-7952406 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xorcom.com iax:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/tzafrir _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users