FreePBX, EndPoint Manager, and Provisioning Phones
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So.....
I have FreePBX. Check.
I have EndPoint Manager. Check.
Now, how to I auto provision phones?
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I want to get FreePBX up in my home lab and test, but I don't have any IP phones to test with..
QQ lol
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For testing we just configured them by hand, but there is no way I am configuring 60 phones by hand!
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@aaronstuder said:
For testing we just configured them by hand, but there is no way I am configuring 60 phones by hand!
It really isn't that bad. I did it at my last job. The Yealink phones, which we had, have a config file you can download. Set one of them up and then the only things you need to configure are the username and password.
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I figured it out! I now have semi auto provisioning phone!
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I did figure it out.. but you reconfigure phones so infrequently that the time it takes to setup autoconf almost makes it not worth it.
200 phones, sure, 60 - very border line. -
@Dashrender Really? Let's say I want to change soft keys. You login and change every phone?
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@Dashrender Let's say you want to update firmware. You login to every phone and update them?
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I perosnally do it by mass updating the MAC.cfg files and the model.cfg files via find in files using notepad++
Of course, that is because the larger roll outs are all on Elastix 2.4 still. i want to mogriate them, but that requires money to pay my time to do so.
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@JaredBusch that sound very painful
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@DustinB3403 said:
I want to get FreePBX up in my home lab and test, but I don't have any IP phones to test with..
QQ lol
So use a software based one.
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@aaronstuder said:
@JaredBusch that sound very painful
Not really. It is a pretty basic function and it is simple because the point of an endpoint manager is to make everything almost the same.
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@DustinB3403 said:
I want to get FreePBX up in my home lab and test, but I don't have any IP phones to test with..
Linphone, Zoiper
