Andrei Cristian Niculae wrote: > Hello, > > I've been looking at XCF-1560 ( > http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XCF-1560 ) and XCF-2355 ( > http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XCF-2355 ) and have been looking > around to see if I can find a place to start implementing these. I've > seen three places where to start, so here goes: > 1. Under Devices -> Network Parameters, there is an option to add NTP > server. I see that this server is propagated to devices and is probably > sent as part of their configuration. Am I correct? Shouldn't this NTP > server have any impact on the locally defined NTP server, if one exists? > Or, better yet, if there is a local NTP server, shouldn't this be > inserted automatically in the DB? Anyway, would this be a place where > to put the time settings, or is this too hidden. Or should NTP be > removed from network parameters and added to a more general System -> > Time Settings ? > 2. I've seen the concept of System -> Locations. This is not yet > documented, but I've seen that it was introduced by > http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XCF-1440 . So the primarily goal of > Locations seems to be the administration of the HA System. But could > this concept be extended to include places where no server is present? > And could devices, users , devices group and users group belong to > specific location(s)? This would seem like a very nice way to organize > things, although it's not that different from groups. Even more would > allow a few settings based on location like time settings, and I'm sure > a few others. Also, I've been following the (very interesting) > discussions around http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XECS-415 and I've > been thinking that this would also be a nice way to prioritize gateway > selection. > 3. A third place where to put time setting would be device groups. This > would require a default group added which would be configurable with NTP > server and time zone. > > So which on would be better? Please comment. > > A few other thins: > - On XCF-1560, because of http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XCF-2427 , > Damian commented: "The UI should also display the current date/time". > Should the time be displayed in the header/footer throughout the > interface, or only in the time configuration panel? > - On XCF-1734 ( http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XCF-1734 ), a > duplicate of XCF-1560, Damian posted the question: "Can someone comment > if changing time while sipx services are running will be OK. I suspect > CDRs will become meaningless. Anything else?"... > - XECS-1194 ( http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XECS-1194 ), another > duplicate of XCF-1560 asks for the setting of time from the config > server. With the new changes taking part in sipXsupervisor, will this be > achievable? Is there a way to tell sipXsupervisor to run a certain > command under a specific user? I see that now, for example, sipXvxml > runs as root, but this is achieved by setting the special setuid > permission.. > > Please comment. > > Regards, > Andrei Paul Mcdaid wrote: > They are all good suggestions Andrei. I like option 2 best; however it > might hide such a basic thing as time settings. I like the way Windows > XP lumps Time/Date/Location and Language settings into the one area > called: "Regional and Language Options". We could do this by adding > time/date settings to the System->Localization area. We would have to > change the name of the screen to reflect this to something like: > Time/Date and Language settings. If the location area is initially used > to administer the HA system, then I think we should leave this in its > own page. > > Paul. Any more comments/suggestions/answers?
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