Dan:

Actually, Polycom's latest firmware for their phones has a native feature that 
does almost exactly what you are requesting.   In Polycom UCS 4.x, 
configuration files can assigned by "username" instead of the MAC address of 
phone.  The phone boots, prompts for a user name and password, then downloads 
the correct configuration for that user (all registered lines, preferences, 
speed dials, directory, etc). When done, the user logs out of the phone.  This 
is all done on the phone's UI.  I think Polycom's implementation, which they 
call "User Profiles",  is very nice.

Unfortunately, it sipXecs doesn't yet support Polycom UCS 4.x firmware and the 
new feature.

Regards,
Robert

From: Dan Chang <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
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<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:06:20 -0400
To: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: [sipx-dev] Associating a phone to a workstation instead of a user

I am trying to "associate" a phone with a workstation so that , when a User 
logs in to a particular machine calls to the user are routed to the phone 
associated with that machine.  My understanding of how SipXecs handles 
provisioning now is that a phone is directly associatedwith a User.

My initial thoughts on how to accomplish this are to add a field to the Phone 
objects that represents a workstation identifier of somekind.  Then when a User 
logs in, I will determine the workstation identifier and then find the phone 
with the matching identifier.  At that point I will assign the user to that 
phone.

Any comments on whether this is a good idea?  A bad idea?  Or any other 
thoughts on how to implement this feature?  I want to approach this in the 
"best" way (or at least not a bad way) and I would very much appreciate any 
comments and ideas, even just a simple confirmation this is doable.

Thanks

D. Chang

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