November 2007
Beginner
642 pages
15h 43m
English
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5.22. Using AsteriskNOW, "Asterisk in 30 Minutes"
Problem
You're not afraid of the command line or of editing text files, but it seems like a lot of work to administer an Asterisk server this way, with a lot of complexity and room for errors. Isn't there a good, clean, graphical administration interface for Asterisk? One that doesn't install with a lot of lard, and lets you make changes from the GUI and the text configuration files without conflicts?
Solution
There is indeed, and it is a product of Digium itself. AsteriskNOW is a software appliance that includes the operating system, Asterisk, and good web-based graphical interfaces for the Asterisk server and the operating system.
Visit AsteriskNOW.org (http://www.asterisknow.org/) to download the installation image. You'll have a choice of several different images, including x86-32 and x86-64, a Xen guest image, a VMWare guest image, and a liveCD image.
The installer will look for a DHCP server. Log on to the server to find its IP address with the username admin, password password. It should tell you the IP address right on the console. If it doesn't, because gosh knows Asterisk is evolving faster than science fiction critters, use the ifconfig command.
Alt-F9 takes you to the familiar Asterisk CLI, and Alt-F1 takes you back to the console menu.
Then, log in to the web administration interface from a neighboring PC. Fire up a Firefox web browser, and go to https://[ip address]. You'll get a bunch of scary warnings about the server certificate. ...
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