HiPBX

Which is why I haven't really posted anything there.  I have a site with 14 Astribanks connected to a HiPBX system, and they've been having crashes every couple of days. 

We've been scratching our heads, but II finally have machine with 15 days uptime. This is (sadly) a record.

Now that this is hopefully fixed, I can get back into documentation. Which, at the moment, is pretty messy. Sorry about that 8)

If you can read this, you're at the right place. I've moved all the servers to Australia, because the 200msec extra latency was annoying me.

Yes, I'm a picky bastard, aren't I.

It's now 10 days till I fly out to Ballarat. And, of course, this means lots of last minute preparation, running around, and wondering what I forgot - Hopefully, this year, it will be 'nothing'.

Also, due to a large amount of interest, the HiAv/Distributed Storage miniconf has been moved to a different (larger) room, and we're now in the second biggest room of the conf. Nifty. Apparently it'll be presenting in front of up to 350 people

Astribanks can now be configured via HiPBX.

Really! Prior to now, Astribanks have been ... unusually fiddly to set up, with their habit of appearing at different places, and the spans randomly turning up in the wrong location.  That has now been fixed. Check out 'Dahdi Management' in Github. I'll put the webui up here for people to have a play with.

I'm doing a presentation on HiPBX at Linux.conf.au 2012! 

I'll be going over Installing, configuring, and running HiPBX, including some demonstrations of how failovers work, and show everyone how fast it is to fail over.

It's the presentation before lunch in the HiAv and Distributed Storage miniconf.

Nothing much - in the HiPBX git branch. But I've been working hard on the Simple Provisioner. 

As you'd know, if you've been following along, one of the major points of HiPBX is reliability and redundancy.  Because of this, we're using Astribanks for the analog interfaces.  They're cheap, reliable, and they offer a proper failover when a machine dies. Which is exactly what we want!

Well, it's time for me to start doing Documentation. I've done some quick how-to's for the Cluster service, and how to fix common problems, and I'll be working on this for the next couple of days. 

http://hipbx.org/wiki/Documentation

I've been pushing a few patches back to FreePBX - a couple of major ones like "Update the newinstall.SQL" to the current one, and I also added the ability to do a scripted install so that it doesn't need to ask you any questions. There were quite a few bugs in the installer - no wonder people had had problems running FreePBX as a non-asterisk user for so long.

Just a simple one, but here's a screenshot of the end result of a complete runthrough.

http://imgur.com/ht7VW

If anyone cares, here's the install output, from a virgin CentOS 6 machine. Before release, there will be a lot less of those errors - honest!