James Botham
2004-Jun-09 07:09 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] NetworkWorld article on Open Source Telephon y
I agree, any platform suffers when it is extremely difficult to implement. What we need is an interface that does everything we need and shows what asterisk is capable of, a lot of features will go unused because you might not know the exist unless you hunt them down in the source or conf files. I trained on an Avaya INDeX switch it had a complex console but was laid out in a structured way a java console that allowed you to issue changes to the system would sort it out and would shy away from a GUI that is restrictive, things such as call flows etc... were done in a very simple GUI, although simple this GUI could do very complex stuff. Perhaps we need a suite of tools for it each specialising in an area and linked together via a configuration database. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Bond [mailto:chris@logics.co.uk] Sent: 09 June 2004 14:42 To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] NetworkWorld article on Open Source Telephony> The power of asterisk comes from its method of config. If one wraps it > with a GUI one will inherently limit the flexibility.> Then since the GUI is what gets 'seen' people ~may~ take the lack of > flexibility or even just the look and flow of the GUI to be a reflection > on the power of Asterisk.But if it was an official addon from the cvs tree (similar to the voicemail cgi stuff), it would make take-up a lot easier =) That way you wouldn't make people "stuck" to one GUI, if they don't want it they don't need to check it out. Its just at the moment, you've got sub projects for lots of different GUIs, what needs to happen is someone to consolidate what's out there and bring it all into one official project. It makes sense that the GUI becomes a web one, then it can run on a number of web browser platforms. Kind Regards, Chris Bond _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20040609/2d326c97/attachment.htm
Colin Anderson
2004-Jun-09 08:51 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] NetworkWorld article on Open Source Telephon y
>I like the way the 3com NBX system works. The web interface is pretty >intuitive. Adding users and devices is a snap through the GUI but to getto>the real meat you have to edit the dial plan. To do this, you download a >text file to your desktop, edit it, then upload it again.Ditto on the Mitel ICP 3300. It's just a GUI layer on top of their command line crap that they dusted off from the SX-2000. Mitel had a great opportunity to redefine PBX managment and they kind of p*ssed it away because their managment stuff was designed by engineers, not GUI designers. At this stage, from what I can see, there's no functional difference between configuring * vs my 3300. So, take heart, * users, Mr. Spenser's little project is, IMHO, equivalent to what an army of Mitel engineers took years to do.
Pablo Endres
2004-Jun-09 09:35 UTC
[Asterisk-Users] NetworkWorld article on Open Source Telephony
A GUI for asterisk is really not that hard to make if what you do is model the config files in the db. Once it's in the DB all you have to do is the right queries to rebuild the files when changes are made. Then the gui can be totaly adaptable for any use. I think it is posible to give a good interface or better a sort of API. I know that bad things happen when you dedicate yourself to the GUI (ask Micro$ucks), but you can do good things with a GUI. I personaly volunteer to helping on the project. -- Pablo Endres <epablo@comvoz.com> ComVoz Communications USA: +1 954 343-2085 Ext 199 Venezuela: +58 212 7713195 Ext 199 Colombia: +57 1 3256840 Ext 199