What next? How do I get my config details?

[Tin_Man_0]

Ok, so I followed the steps to completing an install of a IncrediblePBX 2020 Plublic install and so far everything has been semi smooth. I was able to get my android configured with just the sip login credentials, and I had a CISCO 7970G that I was trying to configure, but that was turning out to be a nightmare, so I went and got a Yealink T40G and after some hacking and resetting the credentials on it, I was able to configure the account details onto the phone, but where do I get tall the other little settings that I need for any of the other features? The phone has a giant list of additional config settings and the PBX I'm sure has all sort of URLs and Dial Codes that need to go into the various boxes on the phone. I've been trying to see if I could get endpoint manager to work, but no joy there and I was trying to see if I could get some sort of template spat out for a clearly device jut so I could have a basic template that had all the configuration detail that I could manually map out to a Yealink phone but I can't seem to make that happen either. So how do I get a cheat sheet config list spat out or possibly some sort of basic provisionig going on for the PBX? It's almost like It's been left out on purpose. "Here's a free PBX... but you gotta pay to get the phone working."??? lol. I'm talking about the endpoint manager of course, but I don't see any other way to get any kind of phone configured yet. Any ideas?

 

[Samot]

Phone configuration is based per phone. Some phones let you configure quite a lot via their GUI interface of the phone. That is something that Yealink lets you do right in their GUI. Make a line a BLF, speed dial, set features, etc.. Some phones require you to do everything via config file like the Cisco 7970G. Some phones let you configure some basic stuff and the more advanced features require a config file to do them.

Yealink, Polycom/Poly and many others have sample config files available for the public to get. Cisco, however, is very closed source and doesn't offer them up for anyone. That said, their configs have been shared all over the Internet. In all cases the config file(s) are just flat files generally in an XML or key/value pair format and can be pulled via FTP, t*f*t*p, HTTP/S so creating a provisioning server or a place to serve up those files is trivial.

Now keep in mind that when a PBX vendor offers device management like this that means they have interop'd those phones with their PBX system and that requires a lot of work and in most cases requires working with the phone vendor directly to make sure everything is right. Since each vendor makes multiple versions of product line you then have to work with all those models.

Many PBX vendors include a device management system then again, those are commercial systems. The OSS Endpoint Manager for FreePBX is probably what you're looking for.

 

[Tin_Man_0]

Thanks! but, that part I think I've figured out thought. I've got nice tools and templates to configure the phone. It's the PBX side that I don't have a list of config settings to put into the phone. I'm sure someone who know what each and every setting means might know where to go look on the PBX or even know it off the top of his head, but I'm neither of those. I don't know what all there is or where to look for each of the settings, IF there is even one to find, cuz I'm sure there's tons of settings in the yealink phone that simply won't apply or aren't part of the incredible pbx configuation. Now as far as OSS Endpoint Manager, I've been tying to figure that one out too although I think I'm getting lost somewhere between OSS Endpoint, Enpointman, and who knows what. Farthest I got was finding some post regarding gpl install command that no longer worked, but sure enought there's gpl list and install scripts in the bag of tricks this PBX comes with. So I did a gpl-install-contrib endpointman and that installed it.... I think, cuz when I went to the menu option in the gui, I still got the same message. I've been to the links provided on the oss manager menu options in the gui, but the provisioner link is no good, and the oss git has next to zero instructions that I could find.

 

[wardmundy]

@Tin_Man_0: So... I'm assuming you've installed OSS Endpoint Manager from Module Admin. Then you go to Settings -> Endpoint Manager and click on the 4 bar icon on the right. Then you choose Template Manager. And then "Click here to install some." Then click Check for Update button which will populate the available phone list. Then click Install button beside the models you wish to populate.

Have you gotten that far??

Various phone setups are here.