Hi,
I looked around in many places and found all kinds of questions and even less answers about setting up the PIAF server to proper configure phones using OSS endpoint manager.
Can someone please help, here is what i did so far and here are some questions (in bold below):
I installed the OSS endpoint manager (from modules) then I typed the following in the ssh command:
yum -y install t*f*t*p-server
yum install nmap
chkconfig ntpd on
/etc/init.d/ntpd start
chkconfig t*f*t*p on
chmod 777 /tftpboot/
/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 xinetd on
/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 t*f*t*p on
/etc/init.d/xinetd restart
I read in various places to make sure that option 66 is enabled, how do i do that? (please provide step by step).
Then I went to connectivity > and put my servers ip address 192.168.1.126
then in oss package manager i installed the phones i have, polycom and cisco 504g
then in oss endpoint device list, i put the mac address, and selected the phone and lines to use for each phone.
Then for my polycom phones i did the following:
enter the setup menu and use the password 456 when prompted. Make sure DHCP is set to enabled and in the DHCP Menu the Boot Serveroption is set to Custom+Opt.66. Next in the Server Menu make sure the Server Type is set to TrivialFTP then set the Server Address option to the IP address of your AsteriskNow server. Once this is all set reboot the phone and it should connect to the server, synchronize it’s time, download and install the new firmware files, and update it’s configuration with the extension settings.
for my cisco 504g phone i simply did the following:
In provisioning change the profile rule to: t*f*t*p://server ip address/spa$MA.xml
so now my polycom phone works, and my cisco phone shows the new time (since we moved an hour forward last night), however the following dont work and i dont know if i am doing something wrong:
1. both on polycom and cisco phones, i dont know how to download the contacts that i have in my server either in asterisk phonebook or nerd vittles asterdix, can this be done for all phones? or anyone to do this with another source of phonebook?
2. the cisco phone doesnt really effect any changes other than the correct time, but the phone lines are whatever was manually set in the phone and not updated via the oss endpoint manager.
3. i also have the cisco pap2 adapters can i program these as well and if yes how?
thank you in advance for your time and help.
Ben
I looked around in many places and found all kinds of questions and even less answers about setting up the PIAF server to proper configure phones using OSS endpoint manager.
Can someone please help, here is what i did so far and here are some questions (in bold below):
I installed the OSS endpoint manager (from modules) then I typed the following in the ssh command:
yum -y install t*f*t*p-server
yum install nmap
chkconfig ntpd on
/etc/init.d/ntpd start
chkconfig t*f*t*p on
chmod 777 /tftpboot/
/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 xinetd on
/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 t*f*t*p on
/etc/init.d/xinetd restart
I read in various places to make sure that option 66 is enabled, how do i do that? (please provide step by step).
Then I went to connectivity > and put my servers ip address 192.168.1.126
then in oss package manager i installed the phones i have, polycom and cisco 504g
then in oss endpoint device list, i put the mac address, and selected the phone and lines to use for each phone.
Then for my polycom phones i did the following:
enter the setup menu and use the password 456 when prompted. Make sure DHCP is set to enabled and in the DHCP Menu the Boot Serveroption is set to Custom+Opt.66. Next in the Server Menu make sure the Server Type is set to TrivialFTP then set the Server Address option to the IP address of your AsteriskNow server. Once this is all set reboot the phone and it should connect to the server, synchronize it’s time, download and install the new firmware files, and update it’s configuration with the extension settings.
for my cisco 504g phone i simply did the following:
In provisioning change the profile rule to: t*f*t*p://server ip address/spa$MA.xml
so now my polycom phone works, and my cisco phone shows the new time (since we moved an hour forward last night), however the following dont work and i dont know if i am doing something wrong:
1. both on polycom and cisco phones, i dont know how to download the contacts that i have in my server either in asterisk phonebook or nerd vittles asterdix, can this be done for all phones? or anyone to do this with another source of phonebook?
2. the cisco phone doesnt really effect any changes other than the correct time, but the phone lines are whatever was manually set in the phone and not updated via the oss endpoint manager.
3. i also have the cisco pap2 adapters can i program these as well and if yes how?
thank you in advance for your time and help.
Ben