[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk Administration and Management requi rements (splinter from $200 AMP bounty thread)

[Colin Anderson]

>So, if anyone is interested, I am suggesting particularly a standalone, 
>cross-platform project that is simple to install, configure, operate and 
>manage. It should operate with or without a database. It can leverage 
>existing projects, but it must not have the existence or installation of 
>those projects as prerequisite. In other words, if this project uses 
>another project's code, it must also include the installation and 
>configuration of that project in this one's installer.

I have an idea about that and I've been fooling around with some code to
that end. My idea is similar to the Perl op_server.pl scripts except the
managment interface is broken off into a proxy:

Asterisk <--(telnet)-->Proxy server<--(xml-rpc)-->Managment app

I have some crappy crap running in .NET that telnets to the Asterisk box and
XML-RPC's the output to a client; even though .NET is Windows only (sort of
- Mono) it's a safe bet that Asterisk is going to be deployed in a
Windows-like environment 90% of the time, also you avoid GUI problems that
you see with Java and GTK-Windows style apps. 

I supposed astpy and the Twisted framework would address cross platform
issues but you would have the GUI problem. 

my 2c cdn.