-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Lawrence
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 1:31 PM
To: Xingjun Chu
Cc: sipX-dev
Subject: Re: [sipX-dev] DNS Records configuration for Windows

On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 11:38 -0500, Xingjun Chu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am working on a solution to automatically add the required DNS records
> generated by the tool "sipx-dns" to Windows DNS server if applicable. 
> Basically it uses a open source tool "winexe" and a Windows support tool
> DnsCmd.exe to achieve this. 
> "winexe" allows Linux users to issue a command to remote Windows server.
> DnsCmd.exe is a windows support tool to interact with Windows DNS and
> can be downloaded from Microsoft website.
> 
> For this, some provision needs to be done
> 
> 1)    DNS server IP of course
> 2)    A Windows user credentials with admin privilege (username /
> password)
> 3)    Also indication this is a windows DNS.
> 
> I am looking into about the UI part for provision and integration point
> with sipX.
> 
> I am thinking this occurs in both system setup phase (initial value) and
> in sipXconfig (can be changed later).
> 
> In system setup phase, this could be done at the DNS setting phase
> (inside sipxecs-setup-system).

In the setup phase, we should just do what we do now - there is no need
to distinguish any further than between a DNS service provided by the
sipXecs system and some other DNS server.

> Inside sipXconifg, we should have an entry point dedicated for DNS
> setting for both Windows or Linux scenarios (Maybe move DNS advisor
> there too)

> I should think that somewhere in the settings for the system, if we are
>using an external DNS, there should be a set of configuration for:

> boolean: DNS server is Windows

> and iff that is true, then the name and credentials for that server.


There are instances where the IT staff that maintains the Windoze domain is
not a part of the team that does the telephone work, and as such, there is
not a total trust amongst them. Sometimes there is a total distrust.  They
could be different companies, different departments, etc.  I can see cases
where IT is not going to give up access to the windoze server.   Does it
maybe make more sense to have a standalone application that can be run that
has limited access to the configuration within SipXecs that could be ran by
these IT entities themselves?  Or, have a user operation that can be
included for someone to have limited access to the ability to run this
utility?






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