Endpoint Manager Support for Newer Cisco Model Phones 7800 Series

Commercial Modules Endpoint Manager
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I am inquiring to find out if it would be possible to add support in the Endpoint manager for configuring Cisco 7800 series phones within FreePBX. I know that there are some earlier models of the phone hardware that cannot be upgraded beyond the enterprise firmware version, so being able to use the endpoint manager to setup the configuration files for those model phones would be appreciated.

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GitHub - chan-sccp/sccp_manager: SCCP Manager
is the most likely answer to your question. Cisco has created a moat to protect its phones. They only work with a specific setup and Cisco is eager to protect its ip.
As such it is unlikely that Endpoint Manager is going to add Cisco Support.

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A different approach…but it requires patching Asterisk.

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The 7800 series phones (even the enterprise firmware ones) are SIP only.

I have made a test one work by creating it using a 7941 or 7942 template in Endpoint Manager and then going in behind and manually editing the config file so that it will work with the 7841 phone which only has 4 lines instead of 6, but that again requires manually editing the xml file and any time I need to make a change I have to manually edit the xml file.

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Well, I don’t know what else to say other than: It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
SEPMAC.cnf.xml files are the Cisco way to configure phones.

But isn’t “Endpoint Manager” a commercial module of FreePBX? Why not ask Sangoma support for it? Your post sounds to me as if you already have some experience with the Module.

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If you’re using Cisco phones that have -3PCC in the part number (or have been converted over to multiplatform firmware from SCCP) you can modify the Cisco SPA templates. They just don’t get named properly according to Cisco phone models.

Honestly, I don’t see why it would be that hard for the Commercial Module team to add some new templates for the -3PCC phones with proper model numbers since the templates would be 99% the same as the SPA templates.

We have somewhere around six or seven hundred -3PCC phones deployed. They are overpriced for what they are, but they work.

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