Thanks Al. I really see a text output file as being very valuable to send to
a network admin, or altering the IP and sending it to the webmaster to make
DNS changes for a publicly available record. While I might be capable of
doing this, access and permission sometimes makes it impractical.




On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Alfred Campbell <[email protected]> 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).
> > Inside sipXconifg, we should have an entry point dedicated for DNS
> > setting for both Windows or Linux scenarios (Maybe move DNS advisor
> > there too)
> >
> > Comments?
>
> I think the initial setup would be ok however not sure if that is the
> easiest place to get feedback and make the user experience solid.  In
> sipXconfig in the DNS advisor would be the best place although if we add
> this the name may need to change. Ideally a nice ability to add this and
> corresponding warnings and also a way to revert any changes.
>
>
> >
> > Thanks
> > Jason
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