Deliver Cisco 7970 SIP Config by HTTP

markwiseman1 · ‎08-22-2013

I've managed to deliver SEP*.cnf.xml files by TFTP, but is it possible to make the Cisco 7970 request the files by http? If so, how do I go about it?

Leo Laohoo · ‎08-22-2013

I've managed to deliver SEP*.cnf.xml files by TFTP, but is it possible to make the Cisco 7970 request the files by http? If so, how do I go about it?

As far as I'm aware, no.

Why would you bother with HTTP? The SEPmacaddress.cnf.xml file is so small. The difference uploading the file between TFTP and HTTP is negligable.

markwiseman1 · ‎08-23-2013

Hi Leo,

Thanks for your response.

The reasons I want to use HTTP is so I can dynamically generate the XML upon request using PHP; grabbing details from a DB etc based on the mac address. HTTP / apache also has url rewrites so the mac address can be grabbed from the filename being requested. I'm not aware of a way to do this with TFTP.

Its surprising it does not support http seeing as other Cisco phones (such as SPA525G) do, hopefully it is just a matter of finding the right config option.

Leo Laohoo · ‎08-23-2013

You could try SNMP.

The Cisco 79XX, 8K and 9K are enterprise grade. It's to be used in conjunction with CUCM. It's meant to be difficult, hence the lack of documentation in some areas like SIP.

paolo bevilacqua · ‎08-23-2013

Leo Laohoo wrote:

You could try SNMP.

The Cisco 79XX, 8K and 9K are enterprise grade. It's to be used in conjunction with CUCM. It's meant to be difficult, hence the lack of documentation in some areas like SIP.

No, phones cannot fetch configuration using SNMP.

paolo bevilacqua · ‎08-23-2013

Leo is correct.

Enterprise-class phones fetch configuratiopn only with TFTP. They have nothing to do with small business/home use SPA phones.

Also, on this forum there is no discussion about use these phones with non-cisco call control, you can try sites like voip-info.org.