The one thing Asterisk has been missing

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All well and good...

...if you don't mind living with potential GUI limitations and the vendor's restriction on access to *.conf and other Linux configuration settings for a 'turn-key' system.

If you want the flexibility to configure any way you want (e.g., your hardware, your Linux Distro) then getting asterisk from www.asterisk.org has its advantages.

I've found the one major thing that has been missing with Asterisk is 'good documentation', particularly for dialplan extension and application syntax.

Here's some good Asterisk reference sources to have bookmarked:

[url=http://www.the-asterisk-book.com/unstable/]Practical Asterisk 1.4[/url]

[url=http://www.voipuser.org/]VoIPUser.org[/url]

[url=http://nerdvittles.com/]Nerd Vittles[/url]

Conceptually, when you come right down to it for Asterisk, if you are comfortable with the ./configure, make and make install process from a tar.gz source file, then your basic configuration involves (IAX or SIP) editing three files in /etc/asterisk: sip[iax].conf, voicemail.conf, and extensions.conf.

Anyhow, your points are well taken, but anyone supporting Asterisk would benefit from having a good understanding of these files even if they don't access them directly. Eventually, you'll need to know how they fit together and the Web GUIs with Apache, mySQL back-end databases are nice, but, necessarily complicated with more moving parts to monitor.

Thanks

Posted by: D. T. Schmitz   Posted on: 04/11/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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