In my smallish pilot (10 polycoms, handful of FXS interfaced devices) I use a new group for every Polycom feature I might want to set different than the polycom plugin default, then I put each phone I want to have that feature in in that group. I went to this because you can't tell in any sane way what settings are overridden in each group. So I have a 24Hr display group, a 'show weather on idle' group, a 'show news when idle' group (and similar 'show weather on 335' and 'show news on 335' since they have a smaller display), a 'use dynamic RTP 101 for dtmf' group, a 'use background 3,1' group (based on some private change I've made to the polycom plugin), and a group that loads a specific set of custom ringtones (also a local extension I've made) to the phones, etc.
I also group the phones by their model# (650 or 335) and location (floor1 and floor2). With this setup I can see at a glance how features are set for a specific phone or class of phones. Maybe this is OT, but the 'user group' stuff WRT phonebooks is pretty painful to work with. It would be a little better if the speed dials for each group that applied as well as each user were merged on each phone (rather than it picking one of the groups speed dials). -Eric On Mar 11, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Paul Mossman wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to better understand how Phone Groups are actually used. It > seems to me that Phone Groups can do two things: > > 1. "Filter by..." when listing Phones. i.e. If you frequently "Send > Profiles" or "Restart" certain sub-groups of phones, then you can group > them and save a little time. > > 2. Configuration. i.e. You want your Polycoms to display time in 24 > hour format. > > > Can I have some real world examples of #2? Do you typically have phone > from different vendors in the same group? > > Thanks. > > > > -Paul > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > sipx-users mailing list [email protected] > List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users > Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users > sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/ _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/
