Hi all, a few month ago I got the task of setting up asterisk for my company. I had 94 employee to set this up for ... I never heard of asterisk before to b honest, so after researching a bit.. I started with a digium card with ZAP though that didn't work out as the card were flawed.. so ended up setting up SIP for everyone using a SIP callcentric accounts as well as sipura for pstn lines.. now it's working at it's minimal state.. but as am out of the heat of pressure from management.. so now It's time to learn about asterisk the right way as I had lots of help from this mailing list as well as the IRC channel that I'm not sure I could do it again on my own.. so not to add more to my email, I'm seeking advice about the proper way to learn about asterisk from A to Z if possible... any advice would be appreciated thanks in advance, Roland -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20090404/2c300e20/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 257 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20090404/2c300e20/attachment.gif
One way to learn asterisk is to concentrate on the features/applications/channel drivers you need and read all about it including the sample config files and eventually the source code is you don't find any other material. Asterisk doesn't have a very up to date manuals. The policy at Digium is to add features to the code without updating the documentation. That is left to a random effort. Martin On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Roland Roland <R_O_L_A_N_D at hotmail.com> wrote:> Hi all, > > a few month ago I got the task of setting up asterisk for my company. > I had 94 employee to set this up for ... > I never heard of asterisk before to b honest, so after researching a bit.. > I started with a digium card with ZAP > though that didn?t work out as the card were flawed.. > so ended up setting up SIP for everyone using a SIP callcentric accounts as > well as sipura for pstn lines.. > now it's working at it's minimal state.. but as ?am out of the heat of > pressure from management.. > so now It's time to learn about asterisk the right way as I had lots of help > from this mailing list as well as the IRC?channel that I'm not sure I could > do it again on my own.. > > so not to add more to my email, I'm seeking advice about the proper way to > learn about asterisk from A to Z if possible... > > any advice would be appreciated > > thanks in advance, > > Roland > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > ? http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
Roland Roland wrote:> Hi all, > > a few month ago I got the task of setting up asterisk for my company. > I had 94 employee to set this up for ... > I never heard of asterisk before to b honest, so after researching a bit.. > I started with a digium card with ZAP > though that didn?t work out as the card were flawed.. > so ended up setting up SIP for everyone using a SIP callcentric accounts > as well as sipura for pstn lines.. > now it's working at it's minimal state.. but as am out of the heat of > pressure from management.. > so now It's time to learn about asterisk the right way as I had lots of > help from this mailing list as well as the IRC channel that I'm not sure > I could do it again on my own.. > > so not to add more to my email, I'm seeking advice about the proper way > to learn about asterisk from A to Z if possible...How about the Asterisk book? Asterisk: TFOT http://www.asteriskdocs.org/ It's about the most comprehensive guide out there for someone starting out. However, if you really have 94 employees relying on this system, you might consider getting someone locally to consult with you and configure the initial system in a proper way rather than having the boss breathing down your back when it's broke and you can't fix it. The last thing you want to do is set up something that works marginally well and have the company pull the plug on Asterisk because you (admittedly) may not know the best method. Darrick
If there is an asterisk users group in your area, visit and ask lots of questions. PaulH Roland Roland wrote:> Hi all, > a few month ago I got the task of setting up asterisk for my company. > I had 94 employee to set this up for ... > I never heard of asterisk before to b honest, so after researching a bit.. > I started with a digium card with ZAP > though that didn?t work out as the card were flawed.. > so ended up setting up SIP for everyone using a SIP callcentric > accounts as well as sipura for pstn lines.. > now it's working at it's minimal state.. but as am out of the heat of > pressure from management.. > so now It's time to learn about asterisk the right way as I had lots > of help from this mailing list as well as the IRC channel that I'm not > sure I could do it again on my own.. > so not to add more to my email, I'm seeking advice about the proper > way to learn about asterisk from A to Z if possible... > any advice would be appreciatedSmile emoticon > thanks in advance, > Roland > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Roland Roland <R_O_L_A_N_D at hotmail.com> wrote:> I started with a digium card with ZAP > though that didn?t work out as the card were flawed.. > so not to add more to my email, I'm seeking advice about the proper way to > learn about asterisk from A to Z if possible... > any advice would be appreciatedIt's doubtful that the card is 'flawed'. More likely you didn't know how to configure it. If it really is broken it can be repaired or replaced under warranty. Maybe you would enjoy trying to get it working. Trying to learn asterisk from a-to-z is probably not a very practical thing to accomplish. Rather I would recommend some task that is vaguely related to your job function and try to figure out how you would do that in asterisk. As you add features add on stuff from asterisk applications you haven't used before: meetme, IVR, AGI.