[Asterisk-Users] asterisk gui?

[Gregory Junker]

We are currently working on a WBEM-based management system for Asterisk. 
  If you are familiar with  Novell ZenWorks or Microsoft's MMC or the 
like, you know what I mean.

Greg

Jim Van Meggelen wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
>>[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of hank
>>Sent: November 22, 2004 3:57 PM
>>To: Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com
>>Subject: [Asterisk-Users] asterisk gui?
>>
>>
>>hello is there a gui that would allow me to configure everything from
>>phones, to extentions, to voice mail to basicly everything that 
>>asterisk can do?
> 
> 
> THAT, my friend, is a tall order. Asterisk is in many ways more like a
> scripting language than a PBX; certainly in terms of its flexibility.
> What I mean by this is that the possibilities with Asterisk are so
> varied that even the most adaptable GUI will on some level have to
> impose a limitation on it.
> 
> Perhaps rather than a GUI we should be wanting an IDE (as in Integrated
> Development Environment, not Intelligent Drive Electronics . . . bloody
> overlapping acronyms . . . but I digress . . . ).
> 
> Even some basic syntax highlighting would improve the readability of
> extensions.conf immensely. Anyone know how to make THAT work in vim?
> I've hacked one together for UltraEdit that works reasonably well, but
> that's a Windows editor.
> 
> 
>>I did go to
>>www.voip-info.org
>>and none of the guis I saw there do the trick and the ones that come
> 
> close 
> 
>>aren't downloadable just wanted to see status on this
> 
> 
> The GUIs that are out there consist of pre-defined interfaces to
> functions the designers deemed useful. None of them come close to
> harnessing the true potential of Asterisk (yet). Nevertheless, many of
> them are extremely interesting and show great promise. In the future,
> these GUIs may evolve in a manner similar to GNOME or KDE, where the
> most popular functions have been addressed in a manner acceptable to
> most users. But even the most comprehensive GUI couldn't hope to keep up
> with the rapid evolution of Asterisk.
> 
> The folks at voxbox.ca very generously released their GUI creation to
> the community. It is known as AMP (Asterisk Management Portal) and is
> currently the one to watch. Give it six months to a year to build a
> solid developer community. The AMP list on Sourceforge is VERY active.
> 
> The folks at Bicom Systems have done some very interesting stuff as
> well, but it's all closed up. Hard to even tell it's Asterisk.
> 
> Regardless, for the time being the sage advice is to learn the conf
> files. There's no better way to properly grasp the staggering potential
> of Asterisk.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jim.
> 
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