Remotely Reboot your Cisco 79xx Phone even with Asterisk PBX
Up until a few days ago, I don’t think it was possible to reboot a Cisco 7960 or Cisco 7970 remotely, unless you are using Cisco Call manager software. Great, where does that leave us Asterisk users? The other day I was fortunate enough to be contacted by Dave Gibbons who was also tired of dealing with Cisco to try and find a method to do this. He’s gone ahead and made a script that remotely “pushes the buttons” on the phone so it will automatically reboot with a simple command line utility....