eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: AsteriskNow

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: AsteriskNow

AsteriskNow deployment is just like setting up any Linux distribution.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: AsteriskNow – The Server Console Interface

AsteriskNow is meant to be managed from the Web GUI, but we did a few things–including updating the server and getting to the Asterisk command line console–from the server itself.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: AsteriskNow – Updating the Appliance

From the rPath Appliance Agent page, we could update our software appliance with a single click.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: AsteriskNow – Analog Phones

The first step in the config wizard is setting up analog phones. (We didnt have any.)

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: AsteriskNow – Extension Settings

The wizard walked us through extension length and starting place.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: AsteriskNow – Trunks, Trunks, Trunks

We could configure prepopulated Voice ITSPs, set up our own SIP or IAX trunk, or configure analog trunks from our Digium Wildcard 400p.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: AsteriskNow – Mapping Call Rules to Trunks

AsteriskNow comes with default call rules that are not tied to any trunks. We could edit those or make our own.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: AsteriskNow – The Wizard of Voice Mail

Here, we set up the default voice mail extension and message settings.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: AsteriskNow – User Extensions

We could tie a user to an extension, specify the types of service a user can access and create default passwords.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: AsteriskNow – Registration

For the first few beta iterations, Digium required users to register, but now users can bypass this step.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: AsteriskNow – Configuring Call Rules

We could set up call rules from the wizard, but to do some things–such as prepend numbers to a dialed number–we had to go into the interface.

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: AsteriskNow – All About the Upsell

Administrators can get to a VOIP phone reseller directly from the Asterisk GUI.