by williamconley » Fri Feb 28, 2014 10:15 pm
Vicidial (the software underneath your goautodial server) is a management system that turns asterisk into a predictive autodial system. Asterisk handles all the actual voip communications.
That being said, you don't want to connect "Cisco phones" to "GoAutodial". In fact you do not want to connect them to "Vicidial" either. You want to connect them to "Asterisk". The method of connection would be to create a sip account for each phone and then program the phones to connect to those sip accounts.
Vicidial will allow you to create the accounts under Admin->Phones. Then you will use the same method to connect those phones to your asterisk server as you have with your existing phones, except of course you already know how to program the existing phones and you have to "figure out" how to program your new cisco phones. That, unfortunately, is a bit outside the scope of this board. However, there are numerous boards for asterisk, there may even be history on this board, and there should certainly be support available from whomever sold you the phones.
You will need to use the "Extension" (in admin->phones) as the "user/account/auth id" (or whatever cisco wants to call it today) and the "Registration password" for the "secret/password" (or whatever cisco wants to call it today) plus the IP of the server.
Some phones can be programmed right from the handset. Some have their own "mini-web-server" and some require a local TFTP service to program them. Each phone model is different and each manufacturer even differs between models.
We've programmed many for clients both remotely and here in the office (some are complex and require "in-person" to make it happen). The only challenge is that if the phones are "locked" to a previous server ... well, if you've ever had a locked cell phone you know what that means.
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