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

[Geoff Nordli]

asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com <> scribbled on :

>> 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.

If you want to go cross-platform then http://www.wxwidgets.org/ or more
likely something like http://www.wxpython.org/.

Of course you are going to have a gazillion different opinions on this.  

Geoff