So, people have recommended building a system from scratch, start with a CentOS base and installing asterisk and all of the other utilities. I've only used Trixbox for my business system. I'm wondering what surprises I'd run into. Right now, I know I'd need the OS, Asterisk, something like FreePBX, I have a x100p card so I'd need Zaptel, does that come with asterisk? Fax support, seems to work with Trixbox, but I've heard that it needs to be loaded. Voicemail etc.? I mean, I don't know exactly what you'd need because almost everything I need comes with the Trixbox build. Are there (??) instructions for people who are experienced at the Trixbox level but wish to move on? -- John F. Ervin *Central Florida TeleSource, LLC.** *4270 Aloma Ave #124-69C Winter Park, FL 32792 (W) 407-679-6238 (F) 866-566-1282 (F) 321-445-0781 jervin at jervin.com <mailto:jervin at jervin.com> http://jervin.com/cft -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20090510/f8ba8657/attachment.htm
You don't need freepbx. In all honestly, building a system from scratch isn't too bad if you having some decent (or indecent?) linux karma. If you don't, it's going to be a rather unfun time. PaulH John F. Ervin wrote:> So, people have recommended building a system from scratch, start with > a CentOS base and installing asterisk and all of the other utilities. > I've only used Trixbox for my business system. I'm wondering what > surprises I'd run into. Right now, I know I'd need the OS, Asterisk, > something like FreePBX, I have a x100p card so I'd need Zaptel, does > that come with asterisk? Fax support, seems to work with Trixbox, but > I've heard that it needs to be loaded. Voicemail etc.? I mean, I > don't know exactly what you'd need because almost everything I need > comes with the Trixbox build. > > Are there (??) instructions for people who are experienced at the > Trixbox level but wish to move on? > -- > > John F. Ervin > *Central Florida TeleSource, LLC.** > *4270 Aloma Ave #124-69C > Winter Park, FL 32792 > (W) 407-679-6238 > (F) 866-566-1282 > (F) 321-445-0781 > jervin at jervin.com <mailto:jervin at jervin.com> > http://jervin.com/cft > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > -- 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
Hi John, I'm not sure if this will help you or not but I created a script that will install Asterisk with all the required components for DAHDI, Faxing, fax to email, LDAPget, CDR, FOP etc. It can even include text to speech applications. I created it because I wanted to install Asterisk multiple times and as quickly as possible. It does the exact same steps as one would do when doing an install manually. I created the bash script aster-install <http://www.klaverstyn.com.au/wiki/index.php?title=Aster-install> . http://www.klaverstyn.com.au/wiki/index.php?title=Aster-install Regards David. From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of John F. Ervin Sent: Monday, 11 May 2009 1:22 PM To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Building a System. So, people have recommended building a system from scratch, start with a CentOS base and installing asterisk and all of the other utilities. I've only used Trixbox for my business system. I'm wondering what surprises I'd run into. Right now, I know I'd need the OS, Asterisk, something like FreePBX, I have a x100p card so I'd need Zaptel, does that come with asterisk? Fax support, seems to work with Trixbox, but I've heard that it needs to be loaded. Voicemail etc.? I mean, I don't know exactly what you'd need because almost everything I need comes with the Trixbox build. Are there (??) instructions for people who are experienced at the Trixbox level but wish to move on? -- John F. Ervin Central Florida TeleSource, LLC. 4270 Aloma Ave #124-69C Winter Park, FL 32792 (W) 407-679-6238 (F) 866-566-1282 (F) 321-445-0781 jervin at jervin.com http://jervin.com/cft -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20090511/e04b3afe/attachment.htm
At 22:21 5/10/2009, John F. Ervin wrote:>Are there (??) instructions for people who are experienced at the >Trixbox level but wish to move on?You could move on to PBX-in-a-Flash: http://PBXinaFlash.net/
> > Are there (??) instructions for people who are experienced at the Trixbox > level but wish to move on? >If you'd like to get a solid foundation on Asterisk and how the various pieces fit together, I suggest you invest a couple hours and go through the O'Reilly book: Asterisk - The Future of Telephony (free PDF / HTML of entire book at http://astbook.asteriskdocs.org/). =George Appiah On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:21 AM, John F. Ervin <jervin at jervin.com> wrote:> So, people have recommended building a system from scratch, start with a > CentOS base and installing asterisk and all of the other utilities. I've > only used Trixbox for my business system. I'm wondering what surprises I'd > run into. Right now, I know I'd need the OS, Asterisk, something like > FreePBX, I have a x100p card so I'd need Zaptel, does that come with > asterisk? Fax support, seems to work with Trixbox, but I've heard that it > needs to be loaded. Voicemail etc.? I mean, I don't know exactly what > you'd need because almost everything I need comes with the Trixbox build. > > Are there (??) instructions for people who are experienced at the Trixbox > level but wish to move on? > -- > > John F. Ervin > *Central Florida TeleSource, LLC.** > *4270 Aloma Ave #124-69C > Winter Park, FL 32792 > (W) 407-679-6238 > (F) 866-566-1282 > (F) 321-445-0781 > jervin at jervin.com > http://jervin.com/cft > > > > _______________________________________________ > -- 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 >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20090511/314a6dce/attachment.htm
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John F. Ervin wrote: | So, people have recommended building a system from scratch, start with a | CentOS base and installing asterisk and all of the other utilities. | I've only used Trixbox for my business system. I'm wondering what | surprises I'd run into. Right now, I know I'd need the OS, Asterisk, | something like FreePBX, I have a x100p card so I'd need Zaptel, does | that come with asterisk? Fax support, seems to work with Trixbox, but | I've heard that it needs to be loaded. Voicemail etc.? I mean, I don't | know exactly what you'd need because almost everything I need comes with | the Trixbox build. | | Are there (??) instructions for people who are experienced at the | Trixbox level but wish to move on? Here are some nice videos; http://www.asterikast.com/episodes.php - -- Powered by Gentoo GNU/LINUX http://www.linuxcrazy.com pgp.mit.edu -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoH4usACgkQcZ+z4vAcSsyqwwCeOq3ZSJrGcgyQSSRc44Et1To3 Zq0An3JEy9oIqM8LsBPv1Pyrrf80PJys =Yx5x -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On 11/05/09 04:21, John F. Ervin wrote: <snip />> Are there (??) instructions for people who are experienced at the > Trixbox level but wish to move on?Sure, the TFOT book is a great start. If you want to use Ubuntu or Debian rather than Centos then Asterisk is in the Debian and Ubuntu Server Repositories. # sudo apt-get install asterisk # sudo m-a -f get zaptel-source # sudo ECHO_CAN_NAME=OSLEC m-a -t a-i zaptel (The last command might not be needed any more as I believe OSLEC is now the default EC) Should do most of it. I written a few blog articles on Asterisk (building from scratch and installing on Ubuntu etc. Including Zaptel and OSLEC for the x100p) Here's one for getting it running on Ubuntu server: http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/02/12/asterisk-zaptel-oslec-and-ubuntu-server/ And here's all of them: http://www.theopensourcerer.com/tag/asterisk/ There are, of course, many more guides and advice out there too. Google is your friend as it the extremely useful http://www.voip-info.org/ wiki.. HTH Alan