Well, Here we are with a new APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional or Standard Editions release. It’s been a while, we just haven’t been able to find the time to post about this new release. We did post a brief news article citing the release notes from ApsTel but it never went furthur than that. You may remember our original articles on the subject, Part 1 Here, Part 2 Here, Part 3 Here and Part 4 Here....
Up until a few days ago, I don’t think it was possible to reboot a Cisco 7960 or Cisco 7970 remotely, unless you are using Cisco Call manager software. Great, where does that leave us Asterisk users? The other day I was fortunate enough to be contacted by Dave Gibbons who was also tired of dealing with Cisco to try and find a method to do this. He’s gone ahead and made a script that remotely “pushes the buttons” on the phone so it will automatically reboot with a simple command line utility....
Gone are the days of tedious console only configuration of Nagios. While it’s an excellent system monitoring tool, it can be a little daunting to configure and setup. Not to mention editing 5 or 6 configuration files when adding one host. In April 2008, Nagios Administrator was released, which promises to deliver an easy to use administration interface for configuring your Nagios installation with ease. The interface allows for adding contacts, contact groups, services, operating systems, and other settings....
We found this interesting service the other day called LoveDetect. We’re not sure how much you phone geeks will care about it, but it’s built upon technology we love – and provides a kind of cool service ontop of that, if nothing to ooh and ahh over the technology and speech recognition. Before you ask, we’ve already made some enquiries into the LoveDetect marketing department to see if this service is using Asterisk PBX or not, but we haven’t received confirmation on this, so for now we’re going with “unsure” 🙂...
We’ve used this program quite a bit over the past few weeks off and on when we had time for proper testing. Please see our previous articles for more information on this program, and while you’re at it, don’t forget to upload your personal Asterisk Dialplan diagrams to our awesome sister site Rate My Dialplan.com, where you can rate and share your Asterisk Dialplans. Here’s a screenshot of the program, and links to our previous three articles....