Elastix Endpoint Manager
Posted by Mark Brooker
Update 18 June 2010
Andrew the developer of the FreePBX endpoint manager has come on board to help us build the new endpoint manager. He has already added support for the Linksys/Cisco handsets for those out there using the Linksys SPA range. We will keep moving forward with the development, however with very few donations and no vendor support it will be a rocky road ahead.
Original Post
For a long time Elastix has lacked a good endpoint manager. The current endpoint manager is very good but it lacks a lot of settings which could make the endpoint manager a valuable tool to Elastix. Many Elastix users out there waste hours and hours of time provisioning their endpoints. Going into every phone and configuring each phone is tedious and is time we could be out making more money. Setting up the endpoints is normally the most time intensive part of building an Elastix system. With a good endpoint manager we can put all this behind us.
I am looking to develop a new endpoint manager. It will look to include the following features
- Provision many different vendors such as Linksys/Cisco, Snom, Aastra, Yealink, Polycom
- Provision all functions on each phone. This includes extension, all BLF buttons and regional settings
- All settings held on the Elastix machine in a mysql database
- Phones will grab all their settings TFTP
- Endpoint manager will be able to scan for extensions and provision
- Endpoint manager will be able to create a TFTP file so that the phone can be sent to site and it will be completely provisioned remotely
- Multilanguage support
What does this mean for you?
Vendors
With a good endpoint manager this will mean less support issues for vendors. It will make it easier for users to setup and use their IP phones. Vendors will have to do less support and the users of their phones will not have to have high end technical skills to use the best features of the phone.
Elastix Users
This will save you time, whether you are installing 10 phones or 100 phones. It will also make setting up phones very easy.
What is needed from Vendors and Users?
We need you to contribute. To build a decent module that will support many different types of phones we are looking at a budget of about $10000.00. If everyone can get together we will be able to build this and it will make installing Elastix better for everyone. All code developed for this project will be given back open source to the Elastix project.
Contributors
I have put together a scale of contributing. Not everyone can contribute a lot of money but if everyone can put in then it will help us get to the goal of $10000.00. The following sponsorships are available
Gold Sponsorship – $1000.00
Silver Sponsorship – $500.00
Bronze Sponsorship – $100.00
I am behind this project 100% and have put up $1000.00 to get the ball rolling. To donate to the project you can contribute to the paypal account – elastixprojects@mbit.com.au. Once you have contributed please let me know via email on mark@mbit.com.au
Total remaining – $8900.00
Contributors
MBIT Technologues – $1000.00
Sunshine Networks – $100.00
Hitec Solutions – $100.00
Thank you for all who contribute. We are looking to make a great new feature for Elastix that will benefit everyone.
36 responses to "Elastix Endpoint Manager"
4:56 on June 10th, 2010
Hi Marsk
The idea that I had, it was to detect automanically the device (vendor, model) and register it. With. A mixe of nmap and arp commands and compare these inforamations with the sip agent type into asterisk.
regards
4:57 on June 10th, 2010
oups..Mark
Sorry.
5:35 on June 10th, 2010
I would recommend you to check the Phone Provisioning functionality of sipXecs (http://www.sipfoundry.org) before defining the design specs.
12:36 on June 10th, 2010
Thanks for the suggestions Franck and Ali
Franck – This will definitely be part of the model. Pulling information from FreePBX and using the phone data to bring the phone up with a couple of clicks.
Ali – I have had a look at their spec and it looks very good. At this point we have a list of features we would like to start with but we need a budget to start developing. Palosanto cant develop everything and if the community cant come together then this project will fail.
17:32 on June 11th, 2010
have you look at the phone provisioning tools written for Freepbx? http://projects.colsolgrp.net/projects/show/endpointman
What will you add additional to this although I line the sipx one much better
0:45 on June 12th, 2010
HI Chito
Thanks for the reference. The endpointman module has come a long way since I last saw it. I will be contacting the developer to see if we can bring something together on this. I would not like to reinvent the wheel if i dont have to.
7:37 on June 13th, 2010
Hello,
Just letting you all know that I’d love to work with you on this project with you.
-Andrew (Developer of http://projects.colsolgrp.net/projects/show/endpointman)
6:14 on June 18th, 2010
From remote office we are not able to connect ip phone with elatix
its very very leack faclity in Endpoint manger.
Becoue of this reason costomer not ready to get install elastix
8:01 on June 18th, 2010
Well help the endpoint manager by contributing and we can improve it.
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18:04 on June 19th, 2011
I’m trying to use the endpoint manager to setup my phones for use with the system. I run the scan and the utility finds my phones correctly. So I then select a phone type, input the extension number, check the set box and click the set button as I assume you’re supposed to do.
However, the page then reloads and nothing happens. The phone status still reads ‘not set’ and the phone type and extension fields are on the default settings just as if you came into the form fresh.
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12:12 on September 29th, 2011
We mostly use yealink and cisco SPA-5xx series handsets.
If I make a contribution can those handsets be prioritized?
Alex
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