Questions about provisions

[Zaid Abdulla]

On Tue, 2017-03-28 at 16:33 +0200, Oliver Kraitschy wrote:
> 1. How do I trigger a (firmware) download task in a provisioning
> script? It's not explained in the wiki. Additionally, I'd like to
> trigger a download task only if a device hasn't got the newest
> firmware version yet.
> 
> 2. Can I trigger a download task first and then set device
> parameters 
> afterwards, after the device is up again, all in one provisioning 
> script?

https://www.mail-archive.com/users@lists.genieacs.com/msg01079.html

Under Downloads.* there's a read-only parameter "LastDownload" (among
others). You can use that parameter to know the last successful
download and based on that you can decide whether to set the parameters
or skip that until a later session.

> 3. What is the best practice to set device-specific parameters in
> v1.1 (for example DSL credentials, which are unique for each device)?
> Is the best practice still to get the data from an external system?
> If yes, then I guess by querying the external system from an
> extension which is called from a provisioning script, I guess?

Yes. See the example extension in the config directory and in the wiki.

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Zaid Abdulla <zaid at genieacs.com>