Paul Mossman wrote:
>  
> Martin wrote:
> ...
>>>> Once a Polycom is discovered, a Devices->Phones entry is 
>> created with 
>>>> the MAC and model set, but no Lines assigned.
>> +1 So it sounds like the model is discovered as well and no 
>> longer needs
>> to be manually entered from a drop-down
> 
> Precisely.
> 
> 
>>>> To be clear, the discovered phones will not show up under 
>> Devices -> 
>>>> Discover Devices, nor will they be put into any Groups.
>>>>
>>> I don't like it. No matter how the phone is discovered it should be
>> added
>>> to Discovered Devices.
>> I agree with that. What we could do is distinguish in the 
>> table of discovered devices between those that registered and 
>> those that did not.
>> That could be done by either separating it in the table or 
>> even bettwe with a little green icon that almost looks like a 
>> "presence" icon and indicates that the phone registered.
> 
> Is this a deal-breaker for Phase 1?  It would add to the development
> effort, of course.  
> 
> Regardless, I do not see the merits of mixing these two features.  If
> your Polycoms have been auto-provisioned into Devices->Phones, then why
> would you want to see them under Discovered Devices?

We talked about marrying discovery and auto configuration before and if
done properly it's a nice vendor independent feature. You cannot really
blame me for trying to steer that into direction that be beneficial for
other types of phones, right ;-)
But of course if you want to test something Polycom specific and if that
won't clash with current discovery that's a different matter. That might be
a good first step regardless of other considerations.

> 
> We can avoid using the term "discovery" for this new feature if it makes
> things more clear.  (Really sipXecs is not discovering phones, simply
> auto-provisioning those that have asked it for their configuration.)
> 
> 

Yup. I think if we stay away from mentioning "discovery" it would be less
confusing. If this is a Polycom only special that does not require or
introduce any UI to deal with configuring un-provisioned phones than I am
fine with it.
I am only against introducing concepts parallel to those that we already have.

D.

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