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?

Regards,
Andrei
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