[TheKoach]

Hi, this is my first time posting here, so feel free to offer advice for future posts. So...here's my situation.

The company I work for has been using Asterisk@Home (ver 2.2) for quite some time now. They have strictly been using the softphone X-Lite to place their calls, but we are now migrating to the Polycom 501 desk phones. I have configured 5 of these so far using the web interface and I keep reading about how this can be automatically done using an FTP or TFTP server. How exactly is this done using Asterisk@Home? Compared to regular Asterisk running on to top of an existing Linux OS, you don't have as many options with Asterisk@Home because you are stuck to command line or the Web interface (AMP). My biggest concern really, is getting the contact list of all the Asterisk users pushed out to each phone everytime it's booted; that way we dont have to put everyone in by hand on every phone.

I appreciate any insight anyone may have. I am new the the IP Telephony game, and I am sure learnign this procedure will save me alot of time and money in the long-run. Thanks in advance.

[tommy13v]

You need to head over to the Asterisk@home site to get some more information. http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=420324 you will find lots of help there.

Also Asterisk@Home is Asterisk on top of a linux OS just like regular Asterisk. AAH makes it easy to install and configure by using AMP. Regular Asterisk is all command line based.

You have just as many options with AAH that you do with Asterisk, its the same thing. Not sure where you got that info from.