Re: BillMax questions -- New service provisioning for multiple existing services. Advice?

["Brandon Floyd" <beernut@cei.net>]

Would think the easiest way would be to just define a new resource bit for 
the service to use. Then in your service_hook have a defined entry for that 
resource bit and do what needs to be done. That should be the easiest 
solution out of what you mentioned. Your service_hook would basically be 
doing what your radius/email and voip does. So shouldnt be that much more 
work for you to do.

-bn


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Van Dolson" <rayvd@digitalpath.net>
To: <questions@billmax.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 11:26 AM
Subject: BillMax questions -- New service provisioning for multiple existing 
services. Advice?


> Our current Billmax setup has resource bits for Email, Radius accounts and
> Voice over IP accounts.  We have service definitions that provision for 
> Email
> & Radius together and a separate service definition for Voice over IP.
>
> However, the sales guys would like to offer a new package -- a package
> offering both VoIP and Radius/Email in one.
>
> I'm trying to figure out a good, clean way to set this up.  Since 
> initially we
> have two separate services, I have overlapping usage of d01 fields in my
> service hook definitions.
>
> In other words, a d01 field for the normal Radius/Mail servdef is
> username@domain.  For a VoIP servdef the d01 field is a 10 digit phone 
> number.
>
> Obviously, when the provisioning hooks run, chaos results. :-)
>
> I'm thinking the easiest solution is to divide our new service offering 
> into
> two separate servdef's and just let people know they need to add both to 
> an
> account.  Would there be any way to enforce this?
>
> The other option I guess would be to create a new resource bit whose
> provisioning scripts work with different fields than the original ones do 
> so I
> could have both the VoIP username and normal username in the same servdef
> definition.
>
> I can think of some other, crazier hacky ways to do this, but I'd like to 
> keep
> this as sensible a setup as possible.  To keep my resource bits consistent 
> in
> their meanings (in other words, so a lot of external mysql scripts don't 
> have
> to be modified), I'm thinking just adding two seperate servdef's would be 
> the
> easiest solution.  It would definitely be nice of there was a way to 
> require
> that both were present under a User though somehow.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.
>
> Ray
>
> -- 
> Ray Van Dolson
> Linux/Unix Systems Administrator
> Digital Path, Inc.
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