On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Gordon Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Jonas Kellens wrote: > >> I have Snom, Cisco, Grandstream & YeaLink phones. >> >> Is there a way to push a centralized phone book to these phones ?? > > Grandstreams support an XML format phone book download - it would susprice > me if the others didn't, but I've no 1st hand experience of them.
Cisco (at least the 79x1 series) phones also have a special XML format for the directory. I have implemented it before as an interactive web app the phones query. No information is stored on the phone itself. > Well, that's what I do anyway. It's better than mucking about downloading > phone books to all the different types of phones. Real-time query (Live XML/LDAP) back-ended on a database are really the best way to go for Corporate style directory. Unfortunately, you have to get a license from Polycom for LDAP, and static XML files get out of sync way to fast... -Jonathan -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
