Topic: sail-2.2.1-537 Beta 2

[SARK devs]

Hi,

2.2.1 moves a little further towards production...   Along with a patch roll-up and bug fix, there are a couple of cool new features in -537...

One touch visual Park/Pickup

Using the enhanced presence features in 1.4 Asterisk, -537 is automatically set up to handle visual park/pickup for any phone which supports BLF.  We've tested it on SNOMs (320/360) and Aastras (9133, 480i, 55i, 57i).  Simply point a spare lamp at the park you want to monitor.  When the park is in use the lamp will glow.  Pick up the parked call by hitting the BLF Key.  Please note that the PARK space default has changed in -537 - it is 101 thru 104.  You can, of course, change this in features.conf.

Remote system monitoring and notification

-537 can actively monitor and report on trunk and system status, either using e-mail or, in those countries that support it, SMS over PSTN.   A new flag on each trunk (Monitor) can be selectively enabled for those trunks that you wish to track.  If a monitored Trunk fails then the system will produce an alert and generate either an e-mail or SMS or both. SMS over PSTN (ISDN and Analogue) is currently available in UK, Ireland, Germany, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland and Israel.  Sorry to you other folks because this is a great feature.  Next release we should have support for at least one GSM modem so you shouldn't have too long to wait.  This is just the first step in a whole series of automated remote reporting capabilities which should make remote system alerting much easier and quicker.

Full instructions on both these new features will shortly be included in the docs pages.

-537 is available for download at ftp://selintra.co.uk user-id guest, password guest.


Kind Regards

S

[ello]

hi
where is?
 regards dario

[SARK devs]

ftp://selintra.co.uk/Sail-2.2.1/

Userid guest
password guest

use the -538 release

Kind Regards

S

[ello]

hi selintra
but at ftp://selintra.co.uk/Sail-2.2.1/ i don't view the version -538
regards dario
excuse for my english

[SARK devs]

log into

ftp://selintra.co.uk

with guest, guest

then click on the folder Sail-2.2.1

You will find the -538 release...

sail-2.2.1-538.noarch.rpm

Kind Regards

S

[jester]

Hi Selintra,

Did you change the login for your ftp download?! Login with guest~guest is not allowed anymore.

I'm messing around with 2.2.1-537 and found two things when making an alias to use as a ring group:

• external numbers to ring apparently do not need the extra digit for the external line
• the outbound caller-id of the given trunk for calling to an external number (my mobile) is not used

Is this as it is supposed to be?!


Regards,
Huib.

[SARK devs]

HI Jester

FTP site is being upgraded to allow anonymous FTP and bigger pipe.  Back soon.

external numbers to ring apparently do not need the extra digit for the external line

No, it just shunts the call out over the chosen channel with the exact dial string specified in the alais string.  Aliases work below the trunk abstraction.  This is because the AGI has to synthesise a single dial string for the ring group in real time.  This bypasses the regular route/trunk processing and its attendant number transformation.

the outbound caller-id of the given trunk for calling to an external number (my mobile) is not used

Er... Well, it certainly loads the caller-id you specify in the alias.  Whether your carrier honours it is another matter.  Most won't.

Kind Regards

S

[jester]

Hi Selintra,

I understand that using a bogus number as the tag of the alias is not excepted by the telco but using one of my msn's... shouldn't that work? I't does with the outbound caller-id on the trunk.


kind regards,
jester.

[SARK devs]

Hi Jester

I'm pretty sure that the tag is loaded into the CLI just before the alias multi-dial.

You can check by starting asterisk from the master console and running the agi debugger....  log into the console and do a hard stop.  this is to leave the correct drivers loaded - the SARK daemon will unload them so we don't want to use it for this exercise..... 

Code: [Select]

asterisk -rvvvv
stop now
asterisk -vvvvc
agi debug
.
. now run your outbound call
.
agi no debug
stop now
asterisk


Look for the caller-id being loaded by the agi just before it issues the alias multi-dial

Kind Regards

S

[fpausp]

hi selintra,

i can not login to your ftp server, please tell us the username/password.


regards
fpausp

[Tillebeck]

Got the atrpms asterisk installed. Now I am waiting for the SAIL...
Please mail the latest version to at,[at],opengate,dk. I should be able to host it on an ftp or web server until you (selintra) get your new site/pipe up and runnning.

BR. Anders

 --
BTW: Whitch user manual is apropriate for Aterisk/SAIL/SARK? I am a beginner when it comes to anything with IP-telephones so I have no clue how to get asterisk/sail started and what to do when they are up and running

So fare I follewed this guide and got to the "SARK Install" chapter where the SAIL-package is needed:
http://www.selintra.com/docs/cgi-bin/view/Main/DocChapter03b

[jester]

Hi Selintra,

I've followed your exercise and get it now: the caller-id<caller-name> -construct is being send directly out over the specified trunk (in my case my ISDN-BRI line) bypassing the normal trunk construction and that my Telco can't/won't handle that id-construct and just sends my main MSN. As i understand it from voip-info.org that no PSTN Telco accepts the caller-name so probably everyone using the PSTN as the trunk for external numbers will experience this issue (= my assumption)... wouldn't some sort of a 'outbound caller-id override' field (or some other logic) for an alias be useful in case of a PSTN trunk?!


Kind regards,
jester.

[SARK devs]

Hey Jester!

wouldn't some sort of a 'outbound caller-id override' field (or some other logic) for an alias be useful in case of a PSTN trunk?!

Yup...  That's kinda what we've got.  We basically implemented what it says in the ISDN standard.  We had believed that Ma Bell networks will accept caller name and also the BT SIN insinuates that they also will accept callerid(name).

However, an override would not be a lot of code so we'll have a look at it for you.

Best

S

[jester]

Hi Selintra,
It must be getting close to christmas

Chears!
jester.