Paul Mossman wrote: > > Damian wrote: > ... >> Something very similar to this was already discussed with >> relation to existing (and enhanced) discovery mechanisms. It >> would be a natural extension of the existing functionality to >> allow administrator to specify to which group all the >> discovered devices should be automatically added. So once the >> phone is discovered it can automatically inherit its >> configuration from the group and sipXconfig can generate >> configuration profile. > > What is the use case for having discovered phones inherit configuration > from a Group?
It's the most natural way of letting admin to provide configuration for a newly discovered phone. If phone gets tagged automatically with a group that admin specified, admin has an easy way to provide default config for phones that are not manually added. > > My hope is that we could filter for unprovisioned Phones without a > Group. i.e. Add "-unprovisioned-" between "-all-" and "-search-". Only > Phones with exactly zero Lines assigned would show up under this filter. > This filter would be most useful under Users->xxx->Phones->Add existing > phones. > > >> That would require using plug-in based discovery mechanism >> and implementing discovery plug-on that works by analyzing >> DHCP server logs (that's actually one of the cheapest and >> most effective way of discovering new devices). > > Only works if sipXecs is the DHCP server, right? That isn't always the > case. I'm told lots of sites use some Microsoft product... > > I think we want something that works regardless of which server (if any) > is providing DHCP. > I am not advocating that analyzing dhcpd logs would become the only way of discovering new devices. It's just an example. Plug-in based discovery allows for wring discovery modules for many services. Probably also for MS DHCP. [...] _______________________________________________ sipx-dev mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-dev sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/
