
Auto Provisioning
via snom‘s Redirection
Service
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Author: Alexander Feldt , Christian Niemczik
snomIPP - ST314: Auto Provisioning via snom’s Redirection Service

Challenges and Objectives (1)
You’re the admin and you have managed to configure3
snom phones manually - congratulation!
Well, there are 1000 more waiting for you…
but don’t panic, we’ll show you how!
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snomIPP - ST314: Auto Provisioning via snom’s Redirection Service
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Author: Alexander Feldt , Christian Niemczik

Challenges and Objectives (2)
SIP Server
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There is NO SIP server capable of
handling PnP SUBSCRIBE/NOTIFY in
your network?
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There is NO DHCP server capable of
delivering option 66/67 in your network?
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Question: How may auto provisioning
work in this case?
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Answer: Relax, snom takes care about it
– and redirects your phone on boot-up
time to your auto provisioning server.
This is what we call snom’s redirection
service.
with PnP
with option 66
DHCP Server
snom‘s public
AP Server
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snomIPP - ST314: Auto Provisioning via snom’s Redirection Service
snomEssentials - ST314: Auto Provisioning Redirection
© 2011 snom technology AG
© 2011 snom technology AG
Author: Alexander Feldt , Christian Niemczik
Author: Alexander Feldt , Christian Niemczik

Boot-Up Priority:
snom Redirection Service
Pow
er
Up
Send SIP
Multicast
Wait for
reply
SIP
NOTIFY
received?
Yes
No
setting_server:=
URL in SIP NOTIFY body
Use URL of setting_server
This scenario has
third highest
Scenario.
Is
setting_se
rver set?
Yes
DHCP
option
43/66/67?
Use URL received in
DHCP Option
No
Yes
No
Manual change of
setting_server via WUI
Contact
provisioning.snom.com
Scenario 3
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snomIPP - ST314: Auto Provisioning via snom’s Redirection Service
© 2011 snom technology AG
© 2011 snom technology AG
Author: Alexander Feldt , Christian Niemczik
Author: Alexander Feldt , Christian Niemczik
snomEssentials - ST314: Auto Provisioning Redirection

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The redirection service allows any customer to
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register/list/unregister the MAC addresses of their
purchased snom IP phones on snom‘s public Auto
Provisioning Server (APS)
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assign individual redirection URL‘s pointing to
different Auto Provisioning Servers (APS)
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implement an easy to use interface (XMLRPC) for
secure interaction (HTTPS) with remote client
applications
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Well, there’s still something left you have to prepare
in advance, let’s take a look…
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© 2011 snom technology AG
© 2011 snom technology AG
Author: Alexander Feldt , Christian Niemczik
Author: Alexander Feldt , Christian Niemczik
snomIPP - ST314: Auto Provisioning via snom’s Redirection Service
snomEssentials - ST314: Auto Provisioning Redirection

Configuration & troubleshooting
tasks
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Sign the end user agreement and receive your
XMLRPC login credentials
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Enter the MAC addresses of your purchased phones
into your database
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Register the MAC addresses on snom‘s APS using
XMLRPC interface and create MAC address specific
configuration files on your APS
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Send the phones to your customer‘s premises and
install them
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Phones will be redirected to your APS and request
all customer specific configuration.
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Check the phone‘s configuration and system log
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snomIPP - ST314: Auto Provisioning via snom’s Redirection Service
snomEssentials - ST314: Auto Provisioning Redirection
Author: Alexander Feldt , Christian Niemczik
© 2011 snom technology AG
© 2011 snom technology AG