As user, I used "discover devices". It allowed me not to type in many mac addresses of new phones. Assume I'm installing, say, 100 phones, not avaya or polycom. Will I heave (without device discovery) to type in 100 mac addresses manualy? Thanks and regards, Nikolay.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Alfred Campbell > Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 10:06 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [sipX-dev] Removal of Device Discovery > > Folks, > > Due to the addition of the auto phone provisioning service we > are going to remove the old device discovery feature. See: > http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XX-8337 > > The main reasons are: > 1. The discovery didn't reliably work and could cause issues > in large subnets. We actually had system stability issues > seen with this due to impatient people clicking on discover > multiple times on a class b subnet. > 2. The discovery didn't' work across subnets. > 3. The phone provisioning service will make phones "appear" > in the phone table automatically. > > The one down side is that non-Polycom or Avaya/Nortel 1200 > won't show up automatically as those phones don't support the > auto provisioning added. > We can work with community folks if they want to try and add > other phones for the provisioning service. > > This doesn't affect any phone plug-ins and/only affects the > device discovery feature. If you can think why this isn't a > good idea feel free to speak up.. > > Regards, > > Al > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
