asterisk users - Jul 2009 - asterisk freepbx difference or solutions..

Hello, for a long time i am using asterisk 1.6 with astgui.

but for production system i intend to use asterisk 1.4 which i think might
be more robust. And for a more developed service options i preferd to
install with freepbx.
But still there are big plusses and minusses for both system.
My complain about astgui+1.6 was..
For example there were no backup trunk config running on that version.Even
they have it on gui screen when i check the extensions.conf it seems only
supporting a single trunk.Second. there were lots of options whcih was
absent on 1.6..like for voicemail it has *97 for selfvoicemail but no *98
for entering both phone+calledid, or call forwarding which most of my
users uses. I need to write them from the begining which will take most of
my time.
And for freepbx, i had the problem like i couldnt find how to group my
users for outgoing calls.For some users i want to give only local call
permissions for some including international calls etc.
And there are no group selection or creation for such needs.
So i wonder if theres any "all in one" solution for that??
or is there a way to solve my needs???

can you try with elastix

it's same like freepbx but have some advance function like group exertions
and all those


On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Oguzhan Kayhan <oguzhank at
bilkent.edu.tr>wrote:
> Hello, for a long time i am using asterisk 1.6 with astgui.
>
> but for production system i intend to use asterisk 1.4 which i think might
> be more robust. And for a more developed service options i preferd to
> install with freepbx.
> But still there are big plusses and minusses for both system.
> My complain about astgui+1.6 was..
> For example there were no backup trunk config running on that version.Even
> they have it on gui screen when i check the extensions.conf it seems only
> supporting a single trunk.Second. there were lots of options whcih was
> absent on 1.6..like for voicemail it has *97 for selfvoicemail but no *98
> for entering both phone+calledid, or call forwarding which most of my
> users uses. I need to write them from the begining which will take most of
> my time.
> And for freepbx, i had the problem like i couldnt find how to group my
> users for outgoing calls.For some users i want to give only local call
> permissions for some including international calls etc.
> And there are no group selection or creation for such needs.
> So i wonder if theres any "all in one" solution for that??
> or is there a way to solve my needs???
>
>
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On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Oguzhan Kayhan wrote:

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> And for freepbx, i had the problem like i couldnt find how to group my
> users for outgoing calls.For some users i want to give only local call
> permissions for some including international calls etc.
> And there are no group selection or creation for such needs.
> So i wonder if theres any "all in one" solution for that??
> or is there a way to solve my needs???
>
Checkout the "custom-contexts" module for FreePBX.  It will do what
you
are looking for.

Cheersm

j