Asterisk Tuto

Version: 1.6
Date: 08/23/05
1 Introduction
2 Installation
2.1 Hardware Requirements
2.2 Install from ISO
2.3 Install to an existing CentOS 3.5 system
3 Configuration
3.1 Quick start
3.1.1 Set an IP address for your Asterisk@Home box
3.1.2 Configure an extension
3.1.3 Configure a trunk for outbound and inbound calls
3.1.4 Configure Outbound Routing
3.1.5 Configuring Incoming Calls3.2 PSTN interface cards
3.2.1 FXO Cards
3.2.1.1 Digium Wildcard X100P OEM FXO PCI Card
3.2.2 FXS Cards
3.2.2.1 Digium TDM400P FXO/FXS Card
3.2.3 T1/PRI Cards
3.3 VOIP Service Providers
3.3.1 Free World Dialup (FWD)
3.3.2 VoicePulse
3.4 Additional feature not installed by default
3.4.1 FAX to E-mail
4 Phones
4.1 Soft phones
4.1.1 X-Ten
4.1.2 sipXphone
4.2 Hard phones
4.2.1 Cisco7960/7940
4.2.1.1 Setting up a Cisco phone step by step
4.2.2 Polycom
5 Configuring and using Asterisk@Home features
5.1 Conferencing
5.1.1 External access to conferences
5.2 AMP (Asterisk Management Portal)
5.3 DHCP server
5.4 Flash Operator Panel
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5.5 FTP server (vsftpd)
5.6 Cisco XML Services
5.7 Music On Hold (mpg123)
5.8 Fax support (SpanDSP)
5.9 xPL
5.10 Sugar CRM
6Asterisk@Home add-ons
6.1 Click-to-Dial using Microsoft Outlook and AstTapi
6.2 H.323 add-on
6.3 Webmin - web based Linux management
7 Non-standard Hardware
7.1 VIA EPIA 800 mhz board (586 board)
8 Useful Info for Asterisk@Home
8.1 Feature Codes - List

1 Introduction
Asterisk@Home was created to make installing Asterisk easy. Experimenting with Asterisk
should be fun and not take hours ordays to set up.

2 Installation
2.1 Hardware Requirements
The faster the system you use to run Asterisk the more simultaneous calls it will be able to
handle a 500MHz PIII with 128 Megs of RAM should easily meet the needs of the average
home use.

2.2 Install from ISO
Download the latest ISO from http://asteriskathome.sourceforge.net and burn it to a CD
Insert the newly created AsteriskCD into the CD ROM drive of the system on which you
want to install Asterisk@Home. Reboot the “soon to be” Asterisk system and press Enter
when prompted.
Warning
This will erase all data on the hard drive of the
PC!!!

After Linux has loaded, the CD will eject. Remove the CD from the system and wait for the
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system to reboot. Booting the system might take a while, depending onthe speed of your
computer. It is necessary for the system to build Asterisk from source, so be patient.
Once this process is complete, log in to your new Asterisk@Home system with the following
username and password:
(userUser: root, password: password)
Caution
Change your root password immediately by typing passwd as this minimizes the
chance of your
Asterisk@Home system being hacked!!2.3 Install to an existing CentOS 3.5 system
If you have problems with the ISO you can install onto an existing CentOS server.
Download CentOS 3.5 ISOs from the CentOS Mirrors
Make a directory to install from, put the install file there, and install.
mkdir /var/aah_load
cp asteriskathome-1.5.tar.gz /var/aah_load
cd /var/aah_load
tar xvfz asteriskathome-1.5.tar.gz
./install.sh

3Configuration
Once you have installed your Asterisk@Home system you can start the configuration
process. First register a phone to an extension. Next configure a trunk to make outbound
calls and receive incoming calls.

3.1 Quick start
3.1.1 Set an IP address for your Asterisk@Home box
To configure Asterisk@Home you will need access to the Web GUI.
If you log into the console you will get amessage which displays the IP address of your
Asterisk@Home system. If this field is blank then you have a problem with the network card.
Type netconfig at the command line. This will allow you to set a static IP address for your
Asterisk@Home box.

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After you have configured your network card reboot the system by typeing reboot. Your
system will restart and you should be able to...