Since this is phone related, why not talk to the phone guys? PBX In a Flash?!? Their EndPoint Manager might be exactly what you're looking for: http://www.pbxinaflash.com/community/index.php?threads/piaf-endpoint-manager.7097/
Some quick features: * Finding devices on the network that haven't been added into endpoint manager and allowing administrators to add these devices * Ability to delete multiple phones at one time * Ability to re-assign phones already added devices to different brands/Models * Ability to reconfigure all phones of a certain product to another template * Ability to assign phones a global template or an individual template (Each template [individual or global] can have different advanced configuration files attached to them or different parameters in the template manager) * Template manager section for basic users or users who would like to use the ARI voicemail/recording module which allows phone end users to modify administrator defined settings and reboot their respective devices * Allow variables such as server IP, mac address, extension number and display name to be used in the template manager section for administrators and phone end users * Brand/Products/Phones module support. The user can check for updates and download firmware for supported products/brands within the Brand Configurations/Setup screen * Users can enable or disable phones from within the brand Configurations/Setup window to hide phones which they are not using * Button to rebuild configuration files and reboot all phones that have been added to endpoint manager * Button to reboot individual Brands * Support for editing configuration files of phones in browser and allowing the administrator to assign these configuration files to individual phones or select templates * Advanced location support for the executables needed in Endpointmanager (Path definitions for ARP, n-m-a-p and Asterisk) * View all searchable OUIs * OUIs are removed,Installed and updated when modules are removed, installed and updated * Removed need for JAVA JDK and grandstream complier requirements. * Each phone module can complete custom functions within the advanced settings page * Export/Import MAC list table * French Language Support (Thanks to Christophe Jouniaux) * More.. -----Original Message----- From: cobbler-boun...@lists.fedorahosted.org [mailto:cobbler-boun...@lists.fedorahosted.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Ullfig Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 2:55 PM To: cobbler mailing list Subject: Re: [cobbler] Extending cobbler I'm looking further into this, and it seems that the biggest problem is detecting that what you plugged in is a phone. Assuming you have DHCP turned on on the phone, the dhcp message only contains a mac address, and a vendor code. Not sure if this is enough to reliably detect that someone plugged in a phone on the network. Or what phone model you plugged in. -----Original Message----- From: Greg Swift Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 6:22 AM To: cobbler mailing list Subject: Re: [cobbler] Extending cobbler On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:15 AM, James Cammarata <j...@sngx.net> wrote: >>> Hello everybody: >>> >>> I’m new to the list, and I’m new to cobbler. I stumbled upon cobbler >>> looking for a solution to an idea I have. I’m working on a voip >>> server idea. >>> Mostly a front end to FreeSwitch. I think most voip systems handle >>> new phone configuration backwards. You enter configuration >>> information into the system before plugging the phone in, and then >>> you plug the phone in. It seems backwards to me. >>> What I want to do is the following: >>> 1 – plug new IP phone into wall jack >>> 2 – IP phone asks DHCP server for IP address >>> 3 – DHCP server detects by the vendor code and/or MAC address, that >>> someone has plugged a new phone in >>> 4 – DHCP server tells cobbler that there is a new phone attached >>> snip >> You might consider looking into >> http://theforeman.org/projects/smart-proxy/wiki, it should allow you >> to configure dhcp/tftp via an rest API and could probably make it >> easy to drive the needed changes. > > Whether you use foreman or cobbler makes no difference, the crux of > the question is whether ISC's dhcpd can trigger a script when a lease > request comes in. A quick search turned up this: > > http://jpmens.net/2011/07/06/execute-a-script-when-isc-dhcp-hands-out- > a-new-lease/ > > I haven't done it myself personally, but that looks like what you > want, and yes - cobbler would be able to handle it. You'd just need to > write to the XMLRPC API. I've considered moving cobbler to REST, but > frankly the XMLRPC API works fine and is not (in my opinion) any more > difficult to use. So following through this I would approach it like this: 1: Create my overall profile(s) in Cobbler, not associating any systems with it 2: In the dhcpd.template file I would setup the dhcp block with the vendor code/mac matching classifier 3: I'd build the script to perform the initial creating of that phone as a 'system' in cobbler attached to the profile (as per james statement above) The original step 5 is the sticking point for me. The script you write in my #3 could create that template, but cobbler already generates pxe configuration files so it might be easily patched to support creating the phones configuration file. I think using the python tftp server would probably be a good idea if cobbler is patched to build the pxe config files, otherwise that will require a cobbler sync. Which leads to the next thing to ask, would the dhcp profile need to change for that system after initial registration? because that would require a cobbler sync to rebuild the dhcpd.conf file. Depending on how it all ended up functioning I would probably leave the script to run everytime so that I didn't have to change the dhcp profile. -greg _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
