[Asterisk-biz] Re: Best stable asterisk release for SOHO for 35 users

[Paul]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Greg Boehnlein wrote:

>As long as you need to do things the way that A at H has decided is the 
>"correct" way to do things. If you need to step outside of the basic 
>parameters for which it was originally intended and do any minute amount 
>of customization, the chore becomes ominous. The name of the product is 
>"Asterisk At Home" not, "Asterisk At A Small Business".

>Just as Digium about the nightmares they have in their support desk 
>because of A at H.

You can really make the best of all worlds if you use A at H as a quick load
(A at H) then adjust.

I use the 1.5 A at H load, yum update, then pull CVS for zaptel, libpri,
asterisk & asterisk-addons. 

After modifications such as WebMin, TFTP, and the like I pick up the new AMP
 
AMP 1.10.009 writes over the header file in apache and adds the new voice
mail interface. Sugar and A at H interfaces are hidden but available, but you
can always delete the web folders.

I add the interface to the cisco xml to allow for the interface to the
contact portion of sugar, but do the contacts DB upload without sugar.  I
add an XML interface to the cisco phones so the extensions in AMP are
available as a directory at the phone.  I add a paging for all / one / or
groups of extensions.

You do not deal with A at H limitations, but rather the AMP system.  I do not
find AMP limiting, and if you look at the configuration files there is a way
to override every customization installed by AMP. 

So when I need to dial another server without using a prefix I can customize
the extensions.conf by using the custom file (which takes precedence) rather
that the rewritten AMP extensions file.

You should take another look at the time saver.  Since that is what it
really is.

Regards,
Paul Norris