Topic: Digium ADA

[SARK devs]

Digium have repackaged snapanumber (which I think they've aquired) and they now call it ADA.  It works fine with SARK/SAIL but you need to add a one-line custom app as follows..

Call the app ada
Give it a span of internal.
Code it as follows...

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include => internal
Everything else should just work.  Personally I wouldn't use user.conf (which they recommend in the ADA manual), I'd just code a manager interface user for each extension, or better yet, use the AstMan Proxy.

The best thing about ADA is that is has a plug-in for firefox which recognises telephone numbers in browser pages.  You can hover over a number on a web-page and it will turn blue.  Click on it and ADA will dial it for you.  How cool is that?

We'll put the ada code into SARK/SAIL in -717 but if you can't wait then you can use the custom app above.

All things ADA are here...

http://blogs.digium.com/2008/12/22/asterisk-desktop-assistant-windows-click-to-call-and-more/

Kind Regards

S

 

[Franco]

Everything else should just work.  Personally I wouldn't use user.conf (which they recommend in the ADA manual), I'd just code a manager interface user for each extension, or better yet, use the AstMan Proxy.

Will it be part of 717?
I tried setting this up without success, modifying the user.conf.

Thanks,

[SARK devs]

That was the plan but one of users has just reported an error with it so we'll have to wait and see.

Best

S

[ntblade]

Everything else should just work.  Personally I wouldn't use user.conf (which they recommend in the ADA manual), I'd just code a manager interface user for each extension, or better yet, use the AstMan Proxy.

I'm confused.  How do we code a manager interface?
I've just discovered AstMan!

Help!

Norrie

[SARK devs]

I just meant an entry in the manager interface for each user...

It's defined in headers=>manager.conf

Each ADA user (phone/PC pair) needs to be able to access the manager interface to set up asterisk calls (as do all click-to-dial add-ons).
The manager interface has a reputation for becoming unstable whe lots of users are logging in/out and that's what the astman proxy purports to cure.

Best

S

[Franco]

Selintra,
Is this something we should follow to get Astman installed http://www.mattgwatson.ca/2008/06/howto-install-and-configure-astmanproxy/
Or maybe you can give us a hand with a better how-to?

Thanks,

[ntblade]

Fronco, Astman is already installed.  Do:

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astman localhostand login with fop / asterisk

I haven't a clue what to do next tho'!

N

[SARK devs]

The fop/asterisk user is for FOP - you can use it to play with but it is used realtime by the Flash Operater Panel (FOP).

You need to read up on the Asterisk manager interface, which is basically a serial TCP interface over which you can send and receive Asterisk commands under program control.  In its simplest form you can define a user, telnet into it, and manually poke commands through. It runs at port 5043 or some such (can't remember exactly - look it up on voipinfo).

The entries in manager.conf are a bit like extension entries in extensions.conf.  They each define a user who can log-in. FOP is one which we created for the FOP (Flash Operator Panel) application, FOP gets all of its information by poking asterisk via the manager interface.

You don't actually need to know how it works  in order to set up a user (although it helps with the setup if you do), you just need to know the setup syntax, which you can find on voipinfo.

Best

S

[Franco]

Fronco, Astman is already installed.  Do:

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astman localhostand login with fop / asterisk

I haven't a clue what to do next tho'!

N

How cool!
 

Thanks,