[asterisk-users] Asterisk GUI

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
Sat Jun 16 15:37:48 CDT 2007


On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 08:55:24PM +0100, Senad Jordanovic wrote:
> Brett Crapser wrote:
> > On Saturday 16 June 2007 02:24 am, Senad Jordanovic wrote:
> >> Paul Hales wrote:
> >>> GUI bad! CLI good!
> >>> 
> >>> PaulH
> >> 
> >> Really...?
> >> 
> >> So explain why every major PBX manufacturer has GUI of some sort?
> >> Surely they would have had CLI only if GUI is "bad"!!!
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Senad
> > 
> > Senad - it is really to cover the inability of 'average' people to
> > understand CLI.
> 
> CLI is useful for small/simple "dial" tone installations. Anything above
> that even very competent administrator will make syntax/logical errors. 

Hence automation is required. Automation does not imply GUI.
Bad GUIs get in the way of automation.

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