asterisk users - May 2006 - *.conf utilities for Asterisk

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for *.conf generators for
Asterisk.  Creating *.conf files manually for Asterisk requires too much
effort for what I do other than minor tweaking.  I run Asterisk as a network
appliance (Astlinux on CF) so something like FreePBX that needs to run on
the Asterisk server itself is not an option.

I have been using IPmanager up until now which worked great but development
has been discontinued on that product.

I personally just use some custom perl scripts to parse a homemade
config file containing lines, MAC addresses of phones, group lines and
names for everyone (and several binary flags for specific features.) The
perl scripts parse the config files, merge them with my templates and
write the resulting files to disk. For any given phone, the only
information you *really* need is the MAC address and what lines it is
subscribed to.

It actually doesn't take too long if you're even remotely handy with
perl. I find that most pre-made asterisk configuration packages are too
limited for general use. There are a myriad of applications you can use
Asterisk for, and almost no 2 users will have the exact same setup. The
asterisk config files are actually really well thought out and very easy
to parse/rewrite with small perl scripts.

-Ryan
  

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Subject: [Asterisk-Users] *.conf utilities for Asterisk

 
Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for *.conf generators
for
Asterisk.  Creating *.conf files manually for Asterisk requires too much
effort for what I do other than minor tweaking.  I run Asterisk as a
network
appliance (Astlinux on CF) so something like FreePBX that needs to run
on
the Asterisk server itself is not an option.

I have been using IPmanager up until now which worked great but
development
has been discontinued on that product.
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asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for *.conf
> generators for Asterisk.  Creating *.conf files manually for Asterisk
> requires too much effort for what I do other than minor tweaking.  I
> run Asterisk as a network appliance (Astlinux on CF) so something
> like FreePBX that needs to run on the Asterisk server itself is not
> an option.
>
> I have been using IPmanager up until now which worked great but
> development has been discontinued on that product.
PBXware will do that...
Run a "central" web interface, and manage as many PBXware servers as
you
require.

More info here: www.bicomsystems.com


Senad