The only other comment I would have on time is that it would be nice to
have the current system time displayed not only on this page but maybe
on the top page of sipXconfig.
Thanks,
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:sipx-dev-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrei Cristian Niculae
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 9:53 AM
> To: sipX developers
> Subject: Re: [sipX-dev] Centralized configuration of time settings
>
> 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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