Best way to autoconfigure routers and resist reset to factory defaults

Thu Dec 17 11:14:27 EST 2015

Dan,

Exactly.  I was not capturing the POST body before, so I was not aware of all the parameters that the CPE was sending to the GenieACS.  Our api code was not handling this information from our current ACS either, so the ease in which I can retrieve this information through your notification email is a bit of a revelation.

Admittedly I am relatively new to the whole CWMP – ACS handling process, so I never pushed our current ACS past the built in scripts that came with it.  With GenieACS we are trying to do more, and the ability of your notification messages to send the entire inform details to our api is VERY useful.

-Don

From: Users [mailto:users-bounces at lists.genieacs.com] On Behalf Of Dan Morphis
Sent: December 16, 2015 2:15 PM
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Subject: Re: Best way to autoconfigure routers and resist reset to factory defaults

Don,
  I'm not sure I understand this line: " but I see that there are a couple other values in the cwmp request that I can use to validate with, and update my database with, particularily the active WANPPPConnection."

Everything that comes with from the CPE to Genie ACS is sent out to the notification URL in the POST body.

-dan

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Don Johnson <don.johnson at uniserveteam.com<mailto:don.johnson at uniserveteam.com>> wrote:

Thank you Dan, that is most useful.   I’ll need to adjust my api to read the input stream, but I see that there are a couple other values in the cwmp request that I can use to validate with, and update my database with, particularily the active WANPPPConnection.  Half our modems have two connections (ADSL 2+ and VDSL),  and depending on the customer’s service speed and location it is not always clear as to which connection is expected to be used, so I have been updating the login credentials on both.  Now I have a chance to hit the correct target.

-Don

From: Users [mailto:users-bounces at lists.genieacs.com<mailto:users-bounces at lists.genieacs.com>] On Behalf Of Dan Morphis
Sent: December 16, 2015 10:55 AM

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Subject: Re: Best way to autoconfigure routers and resist reset to factory defaults

The event is in the payload. I do different things based on the event as well.

-dan

On Dec 16, 2015, at 9:28 AM, Don Johnson <don.johnson at uniserveteam.com<mailto:don.johnson at uniserveteam.com>> wrote:
Dan

Actually I modified it so that both the deviceId and the requestEvent would be passed to my api.  I added a second variable to the NOTIFICATION_URL so my code could take different actions for a PERIODIC inform or VALUE CHANGE inform that I may not want to do, on a BOOT.  In the end it just gives me more flexibility, as opposed to doing the same actions for all the requestEvents that are included in the NOTIFICATION_TYPES.

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From: Users [mailto:users-bounces at lists.genieacs.com] On Behalf Of Dan Morphis
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Subject: Re: Best way to autoconfigure routers and resist reset to factory defaults

Not sure why you had to modify the fork. I bet you forgot the %s in NOTIFICATION_URL. %s is replaced with the device ID.

Example: "http://my-site/Api/ACS/Event/%s<http://my-site/Api/ACS/Event/%25s>"
Would get turned into:
http://my-site/Api/ACS/Event/00236a-96318REF-SR360NA025%2D0005755

As to your issue with the CPE not finding the ACS, try using DHCP.

In your dhcpd.conf file put this:

# always send option 43 (0x2b) even if the client was too lame to ask for it
option dhcp-parameter-request-list = concat(option dhcp-parameter-request-list,2b);

# define the TR-069 server in the vendor-options
option space tr069;
option tr069.acs-server-url code 1 = text;
vendor-option-space tr069;
option tr069.acs-server-url "https://YOUR-ACS-URL:7548/";

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Don Johnson <don.johnson at uniserveteam.com<mailto:don.johnson at uniserveteam.com>> wrote:
I’m using Dan’s fork as well. I had to modify the message the GenieACS sends to include the event as well as the device_id as I wanted to do some different things for different events, and not need to set the login for all events.  The GenieACS sends the message to our own API, and from there I can find the device in my inventory database, match it up with the service details in the services database, and then create a couple setPrameterValues Tasks for that device, with a connection request, that will update the login on the device.

This is working well in my test environment so far, but I’m having problems with firmware not finding my ACS out of the box even with the ACS url built into the firmware.  Not an issue with the ACS, or dan’s fork, just a headache with the modem.

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Sent: December 4, 2015 8:06 AM
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Subject: Re: Best way to autoconfigure routers and resist reset to factory defaults

I use my notification patch for genie. That sends events like BOOT and BOOTSTRAP (first boot from factory reset) to my server. There I figure out what needs to be done to the cpe. My fork is at github/akcoder/genieacs

-dan

On Dec 4, 2015, at 2:30 AM, Sergio Fernández <sergio.fernandez at electronicamartinez.com<mailto:sergio.fernandez at electronicamartinez.com>> wrote:
Good Morning!

I've been told that configuring presets in order to autoconfigure routers and resist a client's factory default action it's bad for GenieACS. So I want to change the way I'm doing it.

So my question is: What is the best way so all the routers of my company accomplish these 2 things:
    1) That when you connect the router to the ADSL or the WAN port it autoconfigures by itself
    2) When the client performs a factory default, it autoconfigures by itself with its own PPPoE login

I thank you in advance for all the advice given

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