Stoping the trixbox maddness......

[a0011010011]

Hi I come from a Micros history,
I have been busting my head over the installation of asterisk for a few weeks already,

as far as I see the main hasle for people and the vicidial is the lake of automation !!

how hard would it be to write a script to do the whole thing automatically

then

wget domain dot com/install_vicidial.gz.tar
gunzip
tar xvf make or run script ?

come back in 3 hours and everything is done for you,

this would solve all the problems with the instaltion of this product and would boost the usage by 10 x as people see the install instrauctions and they go blue.......

I would do it but i have a micro backround and i know 0 linux

[ramindia]

Hi

already people are doing
for their own ways,

but the question comes here is people use different Linux distro's

If you like to contribute, you are most welcome.
and lot of people in the forum appriciates.

ram

[Op3r]

Lets take it this way,

The reason why its not like that I think is because nobody actually accomplished it. You are more than welcome to create an installer.

and actually, the better you are in system administration the more proficient you are in installing VICIDIAL

[tbenson]

and actually, the better you are in system administration the more proficient you are in installing VICIDIAL

True. We created RPM packages for it, but its for CentOS 4. Works great for us.

[recin]

We created RPM packages for it, but its for CentOS 4. Works great for us.

Do you have RPM for asterisk and vicidial for centOS.?
Where can I get it?
Thx.

[ramindia]

Hi tbenson

its good job

if you like to contribute to vicidial users
you are most welcome

so people can test and give you the feed back same

ram

[enjay]

To automate this process is risky. While there are several items which can be automated there are so many uniques in each environment that an attempt to automate this will only make it harder on the end user to get things going properly.

The Scratch_Install is a walkthrough for someone who has at least some familiarity with Linux systems administration and Asterisk configuration.

Anyhow that is just my take on this.

[gerski]

You will need at least some background on linux and asterisk in order to successfully installed vicidial platform.

also it is much better to install in scratch since you can choose to install other optional add-on. the less add-on, the faster the server.

[tbenson]

Do you have RPM for asterisk and vicidial for centOS.?
Where can I get it?
Thx.

We have not posted it to the public yet, but its part of our internal Yum repository. I have considered posting it to the public, but have held off so far trying to make sure we dont have any issues with our RPM's. Also we are grabbing packages from rpmforge to complete the requirements so we dont have to build each RPM from scratch, just the vicidial and asterisk ones.

I actually did copy our repo up to a public server the other week for someone to test with. I suppose I could update it later today once we recompile the zaptel modules into a new package release. If I get enough requests for CentOS packages for people to use then I will bother to do it.

Otherwise I will hold off as I don't have much time to field questions about it, but if a few people all want to use it then a 'subcommunity' could assist eachother with questions and whatnot. Not that I wont help, but I have enough work with clients and call centers

[ramindia]

Hi

its good idea to share with people
so that you can see the live envrionment deploy with RPM
and they come across any issue

i belive most of the people love to look at your RPM

it would be great appriciated job for the next newbies

ram