This is a 2 part question, is there a place in the gui to set the device password for the admin access to the polycom phone ? If not where do i set it in which config file ?
Also anyone know what the default password is that thirdlane uses for device passwords ? It is not the polycom default of 456.
2018/12/15 - 7:11am
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What are you trying to do?
Alex Epshteyn
Third Lane Technologies
Multi Tenant Asterisk PBX
login to the phone after it was provisioned. your templates change the admin password so changing ip is no longer possible because you have to provide the admin password to access the advanced setting.
Yes i can go and reset the admin password but that defeats the whole purpose.
Also while add it, where can i find any of the ADMIN docs. i searched the system for *pdf but dont see a file nor is there a obvious link in the Admin GUI
Polycom Administrator's password can be found in /etc/asterisk/provisioning/polycom_local_uc.cfg template file.
So based on this i take it there is no way to set an individual password per Phone. Also the only way to change the overall password would be editing the /etc/asterisk/provisioning/polycom_local_uc.cfg . Is there anymore docs avail how the phone template is created and if and how to use like groups / departments to set passwords based on that. Again great tool but docs lack its like a big hole it works or it doesn't.
Procedure of creating/modifying provisioning templates can be a bit complicated.
/etc/asterisk/provisioning/ is default directory with provisioning template files. All customizations should be made in /etc/asterisk/user_provisioning/ to avoid overrides on system updates. Below are few steps that show an example of how to create additional Polycom VVX 400/410 template with separate admin password:
cp -p /etc/asterisk/provisioning/models.txt /etc/asterisk/user_provisioning/to copy models.txt file and save permissions.[polycom-vvx400]andlabel=Polycom VVX 400/410lines.cp -p /etc/asterisk/provisioning/polycom_local_uc.cfg /etc/asterisk/user_provisioning/polycom_local_uc_custom.cfgto copy polycom_local_uc.cfg file and save permissions. Modifydevice.auth.localAdminPasswordparameter in new file.Please note that this exact example will only work if you want to have same password for the entire tenant.
If time permits we will cover this in detail in the future blog post.
thanks, i will take a stab at this. One thing i found is that in some cases it does not do what it is supposed too. I can create the lines etc and add speed dials but when i want to give a name to the line it does not show it. it still shows the extension nbr. Speed Dials work fine i can set the Label fine.
How does this templeteing work, is the config file dynamically created and pushed to phone or is it stored somewhere after it is created ?
I guess i cant update my last post but i found the files in the /home/PlcmSpIp and after some more trouble shooting i found that the fie does not update the label value in the config file which seems to be a bug. I added and deleted lines and changed labels for line and the label stays always the extension nbr.