[Asterisk-Users] Distributed organizations - large scale public sector rollout

[Alex Vishnev]

Eivind

Most obvious solution is snmp. Using snmp you can collect statistics and
provision your remote systems. However, SNMP is an enabler and not the full
solution. You still need to write SMUX agents and develop application MIBS
that allow you to get/store application specific data. To my knowledge
Asterisk does not support any MIB reporting to date. You will need to extend
asterisk with scripts and applications to provide you the data. Most of
scripting tools like perl or php have good support for SNMP. 

HTH

Alex

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Eivind
Trondsen
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 5:26 AM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Distributed organizations - large scale public
sector rollout

Hi List

I am working with a pilot project for a Norwegian regional government to
evaluate Asterisk for a large number of sites and users. The goal of the
project is to have a unified VoIP-system to replace the disorganized 
collection of legacy PBX in use today.

By "distributed organization" I mean an organization that consists of 
many, dispersed units, each with it's own existing telephony system, and 
with distinct number series.

The goals of a unified system are several:
- Lower traffic cost through a common backbone between sites and
   a common exit-point to the PSTN (either via IP or legacy lines).
- Lower admin cost through unified, centralized management.
- Added value through rollout of applications (voicemail, conferencing,
   IVR) that become globally available in the system.

My main concern is manageability. From what I have seen of the available
management tools there are none that address the needs of a distributed 
system. They all seems aimed at the SMB market, and don't leverage 
resources such as LDAP directories.

Does anyone have any experience with management tools for Asterisk in a 
similar scenario?

I am also very interrested in getting in touch with people working in 
similar projects. There is a large political element in rolling out Open 
Source telephony on such a scale, and having a network of similar 
projects could be of great value. I hope to be able to post to this list 
on our progress.

Best regards
--
Eivind Trondsen

Wingnut Information Systems
Norway
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