Layered Corporate Directory

[hanluc6933]

Hello All,

While supporting multiple clients within 1 CM Cluster (1pub 3sub CM6.1.4) we would like to be able to break out different clients within their own corporate directory structure.

The thought is this will need to be completed by creating an individual custom service for each client then assigning those numbers to that service and assigning that service to each clients phone specific to that client. Which leads me to my questions.

Has anyone completed this and can they point me in the direction of building the services? Can anyone point me in the direction of creating custom services for CM? Anyone see any other options for completing this then what I have indicated above?

Thanks,

~Han

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[meneerB]

maybe you can use a custombuild (web XML) page for each company?

See below, a thought from a network point of view:

I suppose you use each company has its own subnet/dhcp and dns server?
point that page to one url, e.g. directory.fake.local
The trick is to use to the same hostname for each phone. Dns takes care of this to use a different ipaddress for each company, and like that a different webserver and different directorypage.

create on each dns server an entry 'fake.local' within the forward lookupzone.
create an A record/ host record 'directory', and point that for each company to an other ipaddress. If each company has it's own IIS server, that would be nice, because each company can setup it's own directory.

For company A, directory.fake.local points to ipaddress B. The webserver serves page C
DNS will see to it that for Company D, directory.fake.local points to ipaddress E. So the webserver serves page F

nice?

 

[meneerB]

hmm, check this.
It's possible to use a corp dir. url per phone:

http://www.blindhog.net/ldap-based-corporate-directory-via-cisco-ip-phone-services-sdk/