[Asterisk-Users] Recommended Web Interface

[Philippe Lindheimer]

Dakota,
   
  freepbx is a web application and associated core dialplan that allows you to do many things on top of asterisk by generating the dialplan customizations ontop of the base that it provides. Once you spend some time understanding it, you can usually do most things that you want within the gui and almost anything else in custom dialplan applications that you can write and will coexist with freepbx. The dialplan foundation is a bit 'fat' because of the rich features set and potential that it can provide but allows for much flexibility. It is not for everyone as it clearly has its pros and cons, but there should be very little, if anything, that you couldn't do using this as a base that you can do on a 'raw' system (since you can always write custom dialplan code).
   
  Asterisk at home, now named trixbox, has been using freepbx (or amp, which was the previous name for freepbx) as its main interface and dialplan, and has also added several other packages as you have mentioned.
   
  Freepbx does not provide an environment to easily run mulitple businesses on a single server. It does provide an ability to give different levels of access to different freepbx 'users.' However, I personally do not believe it is a good interface for end users. It may be reasonable to give a non-telephony IT admin or other knowledgable customer access to do certain basic functions, but beyond that it is not really geared for end users, IMHO. However - I think going forward you will see more end users portals that will provide access to change their settings within such an environment, so that eventually you may be able to have an enduser portal where they can set their features (forward, cw, dnd, follow-me settings, voicemail, etc.) on the web in addition to what they can do from the phone.
   
  philippe

  
From: "Dakota Burns" <dakota.burns at gmail.com>
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 15:07:20 -0500
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Recommended Web Interface

I'm currently reviewing the latest release of FreePBX (formerly known as Asterisk at Home).  Do either of you know whether FreePBX is robust enough to handle multiple clients, or have any recommendations on front-end Web interface to manage client config & provide clients access to manage their level of access (similar to how Vonage, Teliax, and others provide client access to their web management console)? 

The latest FreePBX is module driven - pretty cool.  I've plans to step through the "Asterisk: Future of Telephony" with old laptop in order to get a different view of Asterisk.  Am used to Linux & CLI -- do either of you have any preferences?  My guess is that some purists may look at FreePBX as a lesser product but ... I think it's simply a product base built right on top of Asterisk to help new Asterisk people hit the ground running (and provides some extras such as SugarCRM, Credit Card app, etc.).  

Thanks,
Dakota

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