Common requests from my customers include; -MACs (moves,adds,changes) on extensions (sip, zaptel,CID)
-Voice Prompt recording/modifying -CDR Access on the fly -Reboot/halt option -The Multi-tenant functionality would be very nice also.Big market for that. Hope this helps. Good luck! On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 13:59, snacktime wrote: > I'm finishing up a first version of a web interface for end users. > It's focus is specific for our own uses, but I plan on releasing it > under an open source license and would appreciate any feedback while I > wrap up the first version. > > The interface is designed for end users without any real technical > knowledge of asterisk except for some basic concepts of how things > relate to each other. Such as contexts in a dialplan and how they > relate to the context assigned to a sip/iax user, etc.. The interface > is for day to day management of areas such as the dialplan and > configuring new providers and phones in sip.conf and iax.conf. Things > that an end user would want to change on their own. It also includes > a nice voicemail interface for voicemail users, and some ability to > manage/monitor asterisk via the manager api. > > One of the main features is the ability to write canned scripts that > have associated configuration pages. A script is a text file with the > script, and a YAML definition file. In the text file you can put > variable placeholders, and in the YAML file you define the variables. > The web interface then builds an html form based on the text file and > the YAML definition. This way it's easy to add configurable sections > in extensions.conf without having to change any of the base code. For > instance providing canned scripts for extensions, call routing, voice > menu's, etc.. If you have a script that needs a more custom web > interface you can do that also by just creating the html form by > hand. The same template approach is also used for configuring phones. > > Since we will be using this for local and remote installations, we > also needed multi tenant capability. A basic multi tenant feature > set is built in, so multiple businesses can be maintained on one copy > of asterisk. > > Another requirement we had is to be able to coexist with an existing > asterisk installation, instead of requring that the management > interface take over all the asterisk config files. All you have to do > with asterisk is add one include line in each .conf file you want to > manage. > > And last but not least, another reason we couldn't use any of the > existing interfaces is that almost without exception all of them were > too difficult to install. Or more correctly unnecessarily difficult. > We need to have something we can hand our clients and know they will > be able to install the thing and run it with little difficulty. > Since this interface uses ruby on rails, it includes a built in > webserver, and the installation is a matter of untarring the > distribution into a directory, changing the ownership of the directory > to something asterisk can read, and running the start script to bring > up the webserver. If we can work out a bug in tar2rubyscript that > makes it fail on freebsd, then the distribution will be just one > single executable that you can run as is. > > > I would be very interested in hearing about what features people would > like in a tool like this. Keeping in mind that it's not a complete > asterisk system and is designed to work with existing installations. > I will post a live demo in the next week or so once we get the first > release ready. > > Chris > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- > > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation sponsored by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
