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Introduction

Wazo supports the auto-provisioning of a large number of telephony devices, including SIP phones, SIP ATAs, and even softphones.

The auto-provisioning feature found in Wazo make it possible to provision, i.e. configure, a lots of telephony devices in an efficient and effortless way.

How it works

Here's a simplified view of how auto-provisioning is supported on a typical SIP desktop phone:

  1. The phone is powered on
  2. During its boot process, the phone sends a DHCP request to obtain its network configuration
  3. A DHCP server replies with the phone network configuration + an HTTP URL
  4. The phone use the provided URL to retrieve a common configuration file, a MAC-specific configuration file, a firmware image and some language files.

Building on this, configuring one of the supported phone on Wazo is as simple as:

  1. dhcpd-config
  2. Installing the required provd plugin
  3. Powering on the phone
  4. Dialing the user's provisioning code from the phone

And voila, once the phone has rebooted, your user is ready to make and receive calls. No manual editing of configuration files nor fiddling in the phone's web interface.

Tenant assignation

On initial insertion into provd, devices are assigned to the tenant of the token used internally by provd, which is the master tenant. When a device is provisioned, it is transferred to the tenant of the line to which it is being associated. When the device is reset to autoprov, the device stays in its tenant. It is not possible to change the tenant of the device once it is set. If you wish to do it anyway, you must delete the device and restart it manually.

Limitations

  • Device synchronisation does not work in the situation where multiple devices are connected from behind a NAPT network equipment. The devices must be resynchronised manually.
  • There may be an issue if you are using an analog gateway with lines that are not in the same tenant. Indeed, in the case that the gateway is only one device and each port is a separate line, the device will only be seen by the tenant of the first line that was added.