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SIP On Mitel / Registering Mitel 6900 Series with Generic SIP to Non-Mitel PBX/SBC

« on: February 01, 2022, 10:00:22 AM »

Starting in at least version 5.1 per a comment I found on a blogspot post linked below, Mitel restricts SIP registration on 6900 series phones (6920, 6930, 6940, etc) to only Mitel software/hardware, for instance, a 3300 PBX. So if you try to register a 6900 series phone to a non-mitel SBC (like Anynode in my case), it will instantly unregister itself and provide no information as to why. Fortunately, if you have a means of spoofing the user-agent header in the SIP messages sent by the SBC, you can make them work. Anynode has the ability to do this, so I set it to spoof the user agent to "Mitel-3300-ICP" and my 6940 and 6920 instantly came up and no longer had the instant unregistration problem. The 6940 is running a 6.0 software revision, and the 6920 is running a 5.1 software revision.

Just another case of unnecessary vendor locking. Hope this helps someone!


http://randomcontributions.blogspot.com/2019/02/mitel-6940-handsets-on-asterisk.html

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Mitel MiVoice Business/MCD/3300 / SimpleSMDR on a current distro of linux?

« on: February 19, 2019, 04:34:19 PM »

Hello!

I've recently started attempting to interpret the SMDR logs on our 3300, and have stumbled upon SimpleSMDR. I setup the appliance, got it working relatively acceptably, but the one concern we have is the age of the appliance. The appliance runs Ubuntu 8 with PHP 5.2 and an equally old build of apache. Does anyone have experience getting this software to run on a newer install base, such as Debian 9 with PHP7.X? From what I can tell, the versions I was able to find all utilize a deprecated way of calling HTTP variables, and I imagine there are additional incompatibilities hidden even deeper that I didn't notice at first.

Any advice would be appreciated!