[Snom360] Auto Provisioning

Finally, I got it working.
Its quite easy with these two Tutorials:

http://wiki.ip-phone-forum.de/telefone:snom:konfiguration?&#mass_deployment_-_schritt_fuer_schritt

But Things you should really know about:
- If you use an Unix TFTP Server for autoprov. do write the Filename of your phonesettings which does contains your Phones MAC in UPPER LETTERS!... i.e. settings-0023456700AE - otherwise it could fail
- Set right permissions for your settings

And if you would love to upgrade your Snom 360 Phones to Firmware 8, upgrade it from 6 to 6.5, 6.5 to 7 and from 7 to 8.

[79XX] Cisco IP Phone Factory Reset & Reboot

To Factory Reset a Cisco IP Phone do the following:
1. Press and hold #, disconnect and reconnect Power
2. The Phone will check through the Line LEDs, on an 7911 or similar it will just light up the both Menu Keys and the Reciever \ Handset LED - after that, let go of #
3. Enter following: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 * 0 #
4. The Phone should start up and grab the latest config from your Callmanager

To just Reboot a Cisco IP Phone do following:
1. Go into any Menu
2. Enter #
3. Phone does reload
( 7940, 7960: Hold *,6,Settings )

To open up the Configuration on a Phone:
1. Go into Menu Setting
2. Enter **##

To Factory Reset and erase the firmware on a Cisco IP Phone do the following:
1. Press and hold #, disconnect and reconnect Power
2. The Phone will check through the Line LEDs, on an 7911 or similar it will just light up the both Menu Keys and the Reciever \ Handset LED - after that, let go of #
3. Enter following: 3 4 9 1 6 7 2 8 5 0 * #
4. The Phone should start up and grab the latest Firmware from your Callmanager

[Asterisk] Part 2: Installation, Configuration of an Askozia PBX and getting it working with Snom 360

- Download and burn the latest 1.0 Release as PC Live ISO (www.askozia.com,i.e. pbx-cdrom-1.0.3.iso, 30 MB)
- Insert and boot from in your target PC
( You could now already use this as live running Askozia Version - but we're going to install it onto the HDD )
- Just choose option "Install to Harddrive", choose the HDD you want to install onto and accept the questions, warning that your Data will be erased.
- Reboot and remove the CD from the drive.
- Choose Option 2 and set IP, Subnet (default 24), Gateway, DNS, choose wheter you want to go back to http or use ssl encrytpted https
- Go to your PC and enter http://ipoftheaskoziapbx or https://ipoftheaskoziapbx depending on your reacion to the last installation step.
- The default login data is admin, askozia
- Go to the General Setup, change Username, Password and other Settings you would like and save.
- Go to Voicemail, enter an E-Mail Account (username, pw, email, smtp server) you would like to use for the Voice Mail feature. Save the configuration and enter your own E-Mail Adress in "Test E-Mail" and press E-Mail Me - if that does work, you got Voicemail working.
- Go to Interfaces, change the Interface settings to your like and add ISDN or Analog Interface if you got such.
- Now your basic installation is done, go to reboot and restart your system.

Create an Sip Account and connect Snom 360
- Login to your Askozia again
- Choose Phones and click on "Add Sip"
- Enter the needed Information:
- Extension is your phone number
- Caller ID is the Name of the personal behind that number
- Password is needed to secure the SIP Account
- Voicemail is the E-Mail Adress of the Person, so Askozia can send you a) missed call notifications, b) your Mailbox Entrys as wav
- You need to activate for a) "send missed call notifications" as well
- Choose your Language
- And you may enter an Description and Advanced Settings if you want
- Press Save

- Login to your Snom 360
- Choose Identity 1 (i.e.)
- Enter the needed Information:
- Identity active: on
- Displayname you can choose to your like - maybe Sip Askozia
- Account is the Extension / Phone Number
- Password is the Sip Password
- Registrar is the IP of your Askozia PBX
- Press Save and Re-Register
- Enter your Password again on the Snom 360 and press the "Check Mark" button

Now you're done and can phone. Just enter the number of the other SIP Phone and press "Check Mark" to start calling.

Conferencing:
Under Services, Conferencing you got an Conference Room in the Askozia. On default calling number 2663 will get you there and you can conference with other Sip Users

Applications:
Under Dialplan, Applications you can call 3 Applications. 00003246 - Echo Test, 00009253 - WakeMe (an Wake Up Call Manager), 000064554 (1000Hz Test Tone)

Call Groups:
Under Dialplan, Call Groups you can set Call Groups (one Extension does ring multiple Phones)

Interfaces:
Under Interfaces you can change Interface settings - i.e. configure an ISDN Interface like an AMV Fritz Card ISDN which is recognized in Askozia Stable 1.0.3

Providers:
Under Accounts, Providers you may add an Sipgate Account i.e. to the PBX

Phones:
Under Accounts, Phones you can change Phone settings and add Provider Accounts to the Phone

[Asterisk] Part 1: Basics and Choosing the right OS

Finally the time has come for our first VoIP or Voice over IP Project. The final goal of this project shall be to integrate an Software Asterisk VoIP System into an already existing PBX / ISDN Enviroment, allowing Users on Analog and ISDN Phones to recieve and send VoIP Calls by using the Asterisk Gateway - and vice versa. An good starting point is the most famous open source Voice PBX, called Asterisk. Asterisk is aviable in many flavors and colors: As commandline on little OpenWRT enabled Routers to an Highpowered Cluster Solution running ten thousands of phones at the same time - beeing managable via an nice looking Webinterface and Batch Files.

As an starting point, myself and Co Worker Sebastian picked out the three most popular releases and integrations of the Asterisk server:

- AsteriskNoW! ( http://www.asterisk.org/asterisknow/ )
AsteriskNow is an development of dignium which does also develop Asterisk.
Uses CentOS.

- trixbox ( http://www.trixbox.org/ )
Trixbox is an PBX which has been build for business use and therefor has many options and special settings.
Uses CentOS.

- Askozia ( http://www.askozia.com/ )
Askozia is using the same system the m0n0wall and FreeNAS Appliances are build upon and is therefor very small and very lightweight.
Uses FreeBSD / m0n0wall / FreeNAS System.

AS for the test systems, we did decide to put all three Systems on real world servers, the first two ones because of their quite heavy weight resource needs onto 2 identical Tyan Tomcat Servers, powered by Pentium 4, 3 GhZ, 1 GB of Ram and an Sata Raid Controller, Mirroring the 160 GB Drive (Raid 1) to a second HDD. We got two 1 Gbit NICs and other stuff.

The test node for the Askozia is an Pentium 2 MMX, 500 MhZ, 64 MB Ram, 8 GB Hdd. 1 100 Mbit NIC and an AMV Fritz Card.

After extensiv tests of the systems we came to choose two favorites:
- Askozia
Because of its very lightweight, very simple configuration and low impact even on the tiny system
Downside: Not many options, shell access only with additional packages, limited expert options

- trixbox
For beeing very powerful and posessing many options.
Downside: Hardware hungry, VERY much options

Having these said we did shut down the two big servers and concentrated on the low end HP Desktop running Askozia. For beeing able to connect to an ISDN PBX we needed support for the AMV Fritz Card. Luckily we found this support included in the stable 1.0.3 release. The current 2.0.0 beta does NOT run with AVM and does not even recognize the Card. I wrote an report on the Forum and the admin did quickly reply to this, I'm waiting for an fix of the problem and therefor continued the work with the 1.0.3. Actually including Voicemail, two Sipphones, Conference Room and such is so easy that anyone can do it within less than 5 Minutes. But first things first - in the Installation How To.

Snom 360 Update and Password Reset

WARNING, this is ONLY for Users on an Snom 360 with Firmware Revision 6.X.
If you got an different Revision the steps could be different.
Check out the Snom Wiki in that case ( http://wiki.snom.com/Firmware ).
Basically we just do reflash the Firmware with the same Revision again to erase data and passwords and unlock the Phone.
Than we do an automatic update to the latest release.

- Download the latest Snom 360 Firmware from the Snom Website for your Revision ( http://wiki.snom.com/Firmware/V6/Latest_Release )
- Download tftpd32 or an similar tftp Server
- Rename the Firmware to snom360.bin and upload it to the root Directory of the tftp Server
- Plug in the Network Port and Power to the Snom
- As the message "To Update by TFTP: Press Any Key" appears, press any key on the phone
- Enter valid IP Data for the Phone. Always press Next. I.e. the IP, the Subnet, the Gateway, DNS and the IP of your tfp Server.
- As you're finished, it will ask for this again and again, press Check Mark right beside the big X Button. The tfp Download will start. Don't unplug the phone during the Firmware Update. The Phone will automatically reboot after the flash is done.
- After this flash we have reset all data - including the passwords, so we now can press the Help Button on the phone and get the ip adress of the phone, connect to it by using an HTML Browser. But before you access the website, you need to enter the Administrative mode of the phone, otherwise you won't be able to set any setting or update the phone. So press the Settings Button and press "Administrative Mode" - password is 0000 on default. Press Check Mark to accept. Now access the Website.
- To update to version 7 Firmware (the latest Firmware, experimental) you need to go to the Advanced Tab, scroll down to Update. Set the Update Policy to "Update automatically" and the Setting URL to "http://provisioning.snom.com/update6to7/update_once.php". Press Save and Reboot, Accept with Yes. The Phone will Reboot.
- After the reboot, the phone will access the internet and check automatically for an update, download it and start flashing. It will reboot serval times, don't power it off until its done. It should take something like 10 Minutes or more, depending on your Internet connection. If it doesn't reboot anymore and does show the normal menu for longer than half an minute you can consider it ok.
- You can now create Identitys (Profiles) for your Sip / VoIP Accounts and reregister them via the Webinterface.