We were recently tasked with setting up the auto provioning of snom handsets in a mixed enviroment of Snom Aastra and Polycom handsets.

Unlike Aastra, Snom like to use Http as their default provioning method. This means more classes in the dhcpd.conf file. it is also possible to use tftp and this also works well , but its nice to have seeate classed for each handset type you use.

We have detailed the steps to set this up, It may need to be fine tuned for your enviroment and assumes you are using a Linux DHCP server.

If you have any questions feel free to contact us.

Webdav (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is a set of methods based on the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that facilitates collaboration between users in editing and managing documents and files stored on World Wide Web servers.This can be useful to allow backing up of data between servers. In Linux there is a command line client called cadaver that in theory allows you to script its use.

This isnt as staight forward as it could have been and we spent half a day and a lot of Googling to get to the bottom of common problems, Such as auto loging in, Untrusted ssl certificates and scripting.

So here is a simple run down on what you have to do to script with webdav and cadaver