[Asterisk-Users] web management interface

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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
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