Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-15 Thread Al Baker
Quote We had a master source location.with a master image We cloned the hard drive with linux dd copy of master image Did the dd to clone it actually work on RAID devices Mike Trest - On Travel wrote: -Original Message- I'd be interested in sections like Rolling

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-14 Thread Al Baker
why yes, my rsync does that just fine, you must not be running the latest version Steve Edwards wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Bernd Felsche wrote: Steve Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm mainly interested in consistency in configuration. The method has to be sophisticated enough

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-14 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 04:39:39PM -0700, Steve Edwards wrote: I'm in the midst of rearranging things (which are 2 to 3 times as large as they were then); I'll update that once I'm done. Double-plus cool. I'd be interested in sections like Rolling out a new server or How we maintain

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-14 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:02:26AM -0400, Al Baker wrote: Steve Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it may be based on my ignorance :) Can rsync mung a stanza from iax.conf like: why yes, my rsync does that just fine, you must not be running the latest version April Fools Day was 2

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-14 Thread Matt Florell
On 4/14/08, Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 04:39:39PM -0700, Steve Edwards wrote: The shell script approach has the advantage of light weight. I do a minimal Centos 5 install and wget a single script which does everything -- configures the network,

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-14 Thread Mark Hamilton
: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good?? On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 01:40:44PM -0700, Steve Edwards wrote: On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 06:11:45PM -0700, Eugen Soare wrote: That was cool! thanks

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-14 Thread Mike Trest - On Travel
-Original Message- I'd be interested in sections like Rolling out a new server or How we maintain all the little configuration files without losing our sanity. Hi, I will contribute my 2-cents on how I maintained consistency on a large application with 64 + Asterisks that all

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good?? (added, What is ViciDial??)

2008-04-14 Thread Eugen Soare
I'm glad so much has been sent about on the thread I create (bloated ego head :) ) It has gotten my curiosity up. What is VICIDIAL? Is it Public Domain? Pay for Software? What's it all about? (not looking for all the features, maybe I should put my understanding of it's functions and people

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good?? (added, What is ViciDial??)

2008-04-14 Thread Matt Florell
On 4/14/08, Eugen Soare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm glad so much has been sent about on the thread I create (bloated ego head :) ) It has gotten my curiosity up. What is VICIDIAL? Is it Public Domain? Pay for Software? What's it all about? (not looking for all the features, maybe I

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-14 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:08:21AM -0400, Matt Florell wrote: The idea behind the script is to create a very simple hot-spare solution where all you have to do to replace a running machine is change the IP address of the spare server and un-tar/gz the file on a base-installed system and it

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good?? (added, What is ViciDial??)

2008-04-14 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:54:22PM -0400, Matt Florell wrote: With VICIDIAL you can do inbound/outbound/blended call handling and there are all sorts of features for call handling and agent functions. The latest VICIDIAL release is GPLv2, but for future major releases we are moving to the

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good?? (added, What is ViciDial??)

2008-04-14 Thread Eugen Soare
Matt. Thanks for the reply and Link. That should get me started looking at that. Unfortunately, coming from the Nortel world. It may take some time to get up to speed on things. The hardest part (as I see it) is getting hardware/software instructions on setting up and then maybe connecting

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good?? (added, What is ViciDial??)

2008-04-14 Thread Matt Florell
On 4/14/08, Eugen Soare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt. Thanks for the reply and Link. That should get me started looking at that. Unfortunately, coming from the Nortel world. It may take some time to get up to speed on things. The hardest part (as I see it) is getting

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good?? (added, What is ViciDial??)

2008-04-14 Thread Matt Florell
On 4/14/08, Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:54:22PM -0400, Matt Florell wrote: With VICIDIAL you can do inbound/outbound/blended call handling and there are all sorts of features for call handling and agent functions. The latest VICIDIAL release is

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good?? (added, What is ViciDial??)

2008-04-14 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 02:48:38PM -0400, Matt Florell wrote: Ah yes, my monster SCRATCH_INSTALL document :) And (why the hell *not* stick my neck out :-) I'm planning some work on the wiki to merge that and the newer documentation from SVN into sort of an Administrator's Manual in the next, oh,

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good?? (added, What is ViciDial??)

2008-04-14 Thread Matt Florell
On 4/14/08, Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 02:47:12PM -0400, Matt Florell wrote: On 4/14/08, Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:54:22PM -0400, Matt Florell wrote: With VICIDIAL you can do inbound/outbound/blended call

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good?? (added, What is ViciDial??)

2008-04-14 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 02:47:12PM -0400, Matt Florell wrote: On 4/14/08, Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:54:22PM -0400, Matt Florell wrote: With VICIDIAL you can do inbound/outbound/blended call handling and there are all sorts of features for call

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good?? (added, What is ViciDial??)

2008-04-14 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 03:24:02PM -0400, Matt Florell wrote: As for contributed code, we require a statement of this is my code and the project can use it and redistribute it from the author. Nothing very detailed at the moment because there are not many code contributors and the

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good?? (added, What is ViciDial??)

2008-04-14 Thread Matt Florell
On 4/14/08, Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 03:24:02PM -0400, Matt Florell wrote: As for contributed code, we require a statement of this is my code and the project can use it and redistribute it from the author. Nothing very detailed at the

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-14 Thread Steve Edwards
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Mark Hamilton wrote: Is this 'shell script' on the public domain? As it sounds really useful. :) You're welcome to it. I'll reply with a link off-list. The script is definitely a work-in-progress and not quite ready for prime-time. Thanks in advance,

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-13 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 01:40:44PM -0700, Steve Edwards wrote: On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 06:11:45PM -0700, Eugen Soare wrote: That was cool! thanks for the pdf. I'm in the midst of rearranging things (which are 2 to 3 times as large as

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-13 Thread Steve Edwards
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 01:40:44PM -0700, Steve Edwards wrote: On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 06:11:45PM -0700, Eugen Soare wrote: That was cool! thanks for the pdf. I'm in the midst of rearranging

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-13 Thread Bernd Felsche
Steve Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 01:40:44PM -0700, Steve Edwards wrote: I'd be interested in sections like Rolling out a new server or How we maintain all the little configuration files without losing our sanity. I

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-13 Thread Steve Edwards
On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Bernd Felsche wrote: Steve Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm mainly interested in consistency in configuration. The method has to be sophisticated enough to handle this box has 2 Ethernet interfaces so I should configure OpenSER and Asterisk to listen to both IP

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-12 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 06:11:45PM -0700, Eugen Soare wrote: That was cool! thanks for the pdf. I'm in the midst of rearranging things (which are 2 to 3 times as large as they were then); I'll update that once I'm done. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-12 Thread Steve Edwards
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 06:11:45PM -0700, Eugen Soare wrote: That was cool! thanks for the pdf. I'm in the midst of rearranging things (which are 2 to 3 times as large as they were then); I'll update that once I'm done. Double-plus cool.

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-11 Thread Vincent
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:46:48 -0700, Eugen Soare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So this is just a general question, Is Asterisk really good? Yes, but you should also look at an alternative that used Asterisk as a reference (www.freeswitch.org), and make an informed decision.

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-11 Thread Eugen Soare
I am looking at that. hmm... what to do... don't want any regrets you know! :) thanks, es Vincent wrote: On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:46:48 -0700, Eugen Soare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So this is just a general question, Is Asterisk really good? Yes, but you should also look

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-11 Thread Matt Florell
On 4/10/08, Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 05:49:26PM -0400, Al Baker wrote: Please share more about this. What/How are you clustering the boxes ? Is this all VOIP or TDMF front and VOIP for agents in back ? What kind of Boxes ? What O/S

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-11 Thread Eugen Soare
wow! That was cool! thanks for the pdf. es Matt Florell wrote: On 4/10/08, Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 05:49:26PM -0400, Al Baker wrote: Please share more about this. What/How are you "clustering" the boxes ? Is this all VOIP

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-10 Thread Dean Collins
Hi Eugene, Yes it's that good. All the functionality you posted is possible. Regarding your international calls, nothing more is required than two asterisk servers (one at each location) and a broadband connection - cards are only used to connect into pstn or isdn. Why don't you start with a

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-10 Thread Steve Edwards
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Eugen Soare wrote: 1 - Can you really make free outgoing calls from let's say Portland OR, to Frankfurt Germany? No. There is no free lunch. It takes electricity, bandwidth, and depending on who you want to call in Germany, termination. Thanks in advance,

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-10 Thread Anthony Messina
On Thursday 10 April 2008 02:14:17 pm Steve Edwards wrote: 1 - Can you really make free outgoing calls from let's say Portland OR, to Frankfurt Germany? No. There is no free lunch. It takes electricity, bandwidth, and depending on who you want to call in Germany, termination. though you

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-10 Thread Alex Balashov
Steve Edwards wrote: On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Eugen Soare wrote: 1 - Can you really make free outgoing calls from let's say Portland OR, to Frankfurt Germany? No. There is no free lunch. It takes electricity, bandwidth, and depending on who you want to call in Germany, termination. Yep.

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-10 Thread Dean Collins
-Commercial Discussion' Subject: RE: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good?? Hi Eugene, Yes it's that good. All the functionality you posted is possible. Regarding your international calls, nothing more is required than two asterisk servers (one at each location) and a broadband connection

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-10 Thread Al Baker
Remember - True TELCO grade systems simply cannot be compared to anything else. You want the reliability , uptime, and all the bells and whistles of true Carrier Grade Hardware/Software then you pay for it. If you want something you can tinker under the hood with and do some cool stuff with,

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-10 Thread John Signorello
Asterisk as a PBX is fantastic. It offers the features found in the most sophisticated traditional Until now the third party PBX configuration software has not had the sophistication of Asterisk product itself. Check out cogoblue.com It is a visual drag and drop configuration tool that is

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-10 Thread Tilghman Lesher
On Thursday 10 April 2008 15:43:33 John Signorello wrote: Asterisk as a PBX is fantastic. It offers the features found in the most sophisticated traditional Until now the third party PBX configuration software has not had the sophistication of Asterisk product itself. Check out cogoblue.com

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-10 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 04:05:47PM -0400, Al Baker wrote: Remember - True TELCO grade systems simply cannot be compared to anything else. You want the reliability , uptime, and all the bells and whistles of true Carrier Grade Hardware/Software then you pay for it. If you want something you can

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-10 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 16:05 -0400, Al Baker wrote: Remember - True TELCO grade systems simply cannot be compared to anything else. You want the reliability , uptime, and all the bells and whistles of true Carrier Grade Hardware/Software then you pay for it. If you want something you can

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-10 Thread Al Baker
Quote And for what it's worth, at my new job I babysit about a 16-machine cluster running VICIdial for close to 200 agents, and by and large, it just runs. It's got about 20 T-1s feeding it Please share more about this. What/How are you clustering the boxes ? Is this all VOIP or TDMF front

Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

2008-04-10 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 05:49:26PM -0400, Al Baker wrote: Please share more about this. What/How are you clustering the boxes ? Is this all VOIP or TDMF front and VOIP for agents in back ? What kind of Boxes ? What O/S What tools are you using to monitor this big-azz mother ?