Martin wrote: ... > >> 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. > > This is a great idea. We could define a dedicated group for > un-provisioned (discovered) phones. That group could include > the calling permissions and other things we can configure at > the group level. Would we need such a group added as a new > default group in the system?
I still don't understand the use cases. (Phone configuration doesn't control calling permissions. The special user that the phone has a hidden registration for will determine those.) One small change could resolve my concern though... Could this dedicated Phone group contain all those that do not have any Lines assigned? My concern is that the fact that a phone was auto-provisioned is not a very meaningful state. Who would track which phones were auto-provisioned, and which ones were not? Even so, if I manually add a Polycom's MAC into Devices->Phones before a plug it in, then -Paul [email protected] _______________________________________________ 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/
