[asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

[Mark Hamilton]

Steve,

Is this 'shell script' on the public domain? As it sounds really useful. :)

Mark.

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Steve Edwards
Sent: April 13, 2008 7:40 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Is Asterisk really good??

On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 01:40:44PM -0700, Steve Edwards wrote:
>> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 06:11:45PM -0700, Eugen Soare wrote:
>>>>    That was cool!
>>>>    thanks for the pdf.
>>>
>>> I'm in the midst of rearranging things (which are 2 to 3 times as large
>>> as they were then); I'll update that once I'm done.
>>
>> Double-plus cool.
>>
>> I'd be interested in sections like "Rolling out a new server" or "How we
>> maintain all the little configuration files without losing our sanity."
>
> I smell a magazine article.  :-)

That works, but I'm impatient. I'm up for "peer review" before 
publication.

> The answer to the second question is likely going to become "rsync or
> cfengine", but I haven't gotten that far yet... and we don't change
> them all that much anyway.  VICIdial has *lots* of knobs.

I'm mainly interested in "consistency" in configuration. The "method" has 
to be sophisticated enough to handle "this box has 2 Ethernet interfaces 
so I should configure OpenSER and Asterisk to listen to both IP addresses 
on ports 5060 and 5061 respectively." This would preclude rsync.

I currently do it with shell scripts but I'm looking for something a bit 
more sophisticated.

Puppet (http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/AboutPuppet) was 
suggested during the Friday morning VOIP Users Conference. It's open 
source and written in Ruby. I just feel a bit silly installing "yet 
another language" just to support a support tool.

The "shell script" approach has the advantage of "light weight." I do a 
"minimal" Centos 5 install and wget a single script which does everything 
-- configures the network, installs packages (OpenSER, Asterisk, Zaptel, 
Libpri, MySQL), adds users, and configures everything from services to 
timezone. I may stick with it, but it's getting a bit combersome and am 
interested in what has worked for others.

Thanks in advance,
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