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[asteriskator at gmail.com]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to apply a style sheet to the polycom automatic
provisioning XML files?

Even better, does anyone know of a web-based XML editor where you can
just edit the files from a browser directly ie entering in phone
number, display name, proxy address etc. From what I gather, most
people are just using Notepad to change the files then upload them, or
vi from the command line, which is fiddly and time-consuming.

Thanks

Robert

[mgraves at mstvp.com]

On Wed, 14 May 2008 16:45:51 -0700, Robert McNaught wrote:

[joakimsen at gmail.com]

There's also mcedit. It has a pretty clickable interface.

Or you can just install TrixBox.

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Robert McNaught <asteriskator at gmail.com> wrote:

[asteriskator at gmail.com]

Thanks Jose, that is a clever little script. However, I am trying to
deploy in a hosted environment, so the provisioning server is not on
the same LAN as the phones. It would be useful in a premise
deployment for sure. Thank you.

Just can't believe isn't a web-based XML editor so you can edit files
directly from a browser.

R

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Andreas van dem Helge
<joakimsen at gmail.com> wrote:

[mgraves at mstvp.com]

On Wed, 14 May 2008 18:11:14 -0700, Robert McNaught wrote:

[norman at myasd.com]

On May 14, 2008, at 8:06 PM, asterisk-users-request at lists.digium.com
wrote:

[philipp.kempgen at amo...]

Robert McNaught schrieb:

[asteriskator at gmail.com]

Yes, perhaps a script would always be better than hand-touching these
files, and getting an XML editor only really makes it easier on the
eyes.

On the same subject, I have noticed that Snom and Linksys phones do
not support FTP provisioning - only TFTP and HTTP. With TFTP being an
insecure option for a hosted architecture, is everyone moving to
provision Polycoms with HTTP, so that both can be auto-provisioned via
Option 66.

One thing I found is that, with option 66 in a LAN router, you cannot
specify more than one protocol.

Has anyone had any problems provisioning Polycoms with HTTP?
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Philipp Kempgen
<philipp.kempgen at amooma.de> wrote:

[anthonyf at rockynet.com]

I am confused how TFTP is less secure than HTTP. TFTP does not allow any
browsing, ever. Neither technologies will allow the device to
authenticate before downloading a configuration file, and both are
easily secured by only permitting connections from specific hosts.

Robert McNaught wrote:

[asteriskator at gmail.com]

The way I understood it is that TFTP does not allow you to set a
username and password in a URL
like tftp://username:password at tftp.phonecompany.com is not possible
when setting option 66

Is it not possible to require a username and password with HTTP? I
assumed that you could just like if you were protecting the web root
directory on a webserver to require authentication credentials,
although have never tried this.

Robert

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Anthony Francis <anthonyf at rockynet.com> wrote:

[atis at iq-labs.net]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Robert McNaught
<asteriskator at gmail.com> wrote:

[mgraves at mstvp.com]

On Thu, 15 May 2008 10:23:14 -0700, Robert McNaught wrote:

[jsneerin at gmail.com]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Michael Graves <mgraves at mstvp.com> wrote:

[asteriskator at gmail.com]

Limiting to HTTP would be OK if every customer had a static IP - if
you have small offices, then they maybe on DSL without static IP,
which makes that difficult - you could of course force your users to
have static IPs.

Robert

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Atis Lezdins <atis at iq-labs.net> wrote:

[mark.h at cage151.com]

Since, we're on the the topic of phones, and TFTPing.. if someone on this
thread has some knowledge of putting configs on Cisco IP Phone 7960, can
they please contact me off list?

I've done the configs via tftp, etc but anything into the speaker/handset
relating to voice doesn't work.

-----Original Message-----
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McNaught
Sent: May 15, 2008 6:41 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Polycom XML Files / asterisk

Limiting to HTTP would be OK if every customer had a static IP - if
you have small offices, then they maybe on DSL without static IP,
which makes that difficult - you could of course force your users to
have static IPs.

Robert

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Atis Lezdins <atis at iq-labs.net> wrote: