[asterisk-users] Useful GUI? [Was: Why does everyone seem to dislike *now?]

[Diego Iastrubni]

s/Trixbox/FreePBX/g

Please, Trixbox is a distro, the GUI is FreePBX.

Another option might be Destar. Google it up.

On 9/18/07, Matt Riddell <matt at venturevoip.com> wrote:
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> Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> > Are there any Asterisk GUIs out there that actually parse the data
> files,
> > themselves, instead of having some sort of metadata middle-man, which
> > leads to said overwriting?  I mean, I, personally, love the CLI --
> always
> > have been a fast typist -- but I also know the CLI would scare the
> living
> > bejeepers out of my boss if/when I try to push hard on an Asterisk
> > solution.  What I'd prefer is:
>
> Pretty sure that AsteriskNow is reading as well as writing. Also, murf
> made some changes to clean up rewriting the other day (blank comment
> lines now get retained or something).
>
> > - The chance to do CLI stuff as I see fit, BUT
> > - the ability to let users -- even administrative users -- use a GUI,
> > without messing up my beautiful config files.
>
> :) I'd say that unless you get a race condition (i.e. GUI reads files,
> you save your changes from CLI, GUI writes out changes), you should be
> sweet now, although someone who uses AsteriskNow should be able to
> confirm/deny.
>
> > Is this a pipe dream, or is there a GUI out there that might actually do
> > the job?
>
> - From what I've heard, AsteriskNow is shaping up pretty nicely.
>
> There are options for things like TrixBox too - i.e. the custom
> extensions.conf stuff, but you need to remember that the machine is
> running TrixBox and not change the base extensions.conf.
>
> This used to be ok because if the extensions.conf-custom (or whatever
> the filename is) only appeared on machines which had TrixBox.
>
> I've lately seen a few machines where the extra config files exist but
> TrixBox is not running (i.e. someone copied /etc/asterisk from a TrixBox
> machine).
>
> I actually put my extensions.conf stuff into a generate.php file which
> writes out the extensions.conf file with parameters supplied by the
> customer stored in separate files.
>
> So our software is doing the same thing (overwriting configs) but I
> don't want the users changing settings too much.
>
> I guess this is probably pretty similar to the TrixBox idea but I
> haven't had a look at how that works under the hood.
>
> I think AsteriskNow also lets you edit configuration files from the web
> page.
>
> - --
> Kind Regards,
>
> Matt Riddell
> Director
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