October 10-13, 2006 San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California Installing Asterisk Carl Davis

October 10-13, 2006 San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California PREREQUISITES Asterisk distribution – asterisk tar provides SIP based VoIP Zaptel library – zaptel tar Digium hardware support PRI library – libpri tar supports ISDN PRI interfaces Asterisk Sounds distribution – asterisk sounds tar provides professionally recorded prompts for use in your asterisk system.

October 10-13, 2006 San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California More PREREQUISITES Linux distribution –RedHat Fedora Core (used in this presentation) –Debian –SuSE –Gentoo –Slackware –FreeBSD –And many more…

October 10-13, 2006 San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California And More PREREQUISITES GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), v3.0 or higher Make and bison – comes with most systems C library headers – glibc-devel package Curses graphics library – ncurses-devel package Secure Socket library – openssl-devel Zlib Compression library – zlib-devel Newt Windowing Toolkit – libnewt-devel for use with zttool and ztcfg, very useful utilities Doxygen documentation tool - doxygen

October 10-13, 2006 San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California Even More PREREQUISITES! Root login permissions Local or remote terminal console – telnet sessions work fine as long as the server allows root login from a telnet session. General knowledge of Linux commands –tar, ftp, cd and other administrative commands –Editor dujour (i.e.: vi, emacs, pico)

October 10-13, 2006 San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California And with All That Said… Now, with all that said, you really dont need this knowledge. Get the book Asterisk: The Future of Telephony from asteriskdocs.org, go to chapter 3 and type in each thing they have written. When you get into trouble, go to the Asterisk wiki at voip-info.org. You havent done anything that someone else hasnt already done. If you have, try for a prize. Ready to Start?

October 10-13, 2006 San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California Obtaining the Source Code FTP from asterisk.org These generally resolve to ftp.digium.com Mirror sites are available Current stable version of Asterisk is (10/2006) Asterisk 1.4 is in beta The transfer supplies tarballs, tar.gz compressed archives containing the necessary source Refer to asterisk.org for source code access via the Subversion source control system

October 10-13, 2006 San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California Extracting Source Code Copy the tar.gz archives into /usr/src Change directory, cd, to /usr/src Extract the source code from the archives –tar zxvf zaptel-*.tar.gz –tar zxvf libpri-*.tar.gz –tar zxvf asterisk-*.tar.gz The files will be extracted into their respective directories.

October 10-13, 2006 San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California Building Zaptel cd /usr/src/zaptel-* make clean zaptel-1.2.2]# make clean –rm -f torisatool makefw tor2fw.h radfw.h –rm -f ztcfg torisatool makefw ztmonitor ztspeed zttool zttest fxotune –rm -f *.o ztcfg tzdriver sethdlc sethdlc-new –… make zaptel-1.2.2]# make –cc -I. -O4 -g -Wall -DBUILDING_TONEZONE - DSTANDALONE_ZAPATA -DZAPTEL_CONFIG=\"/etc/zaptel.conf\" -c -o gendigits.o gendigits.c –cc -o gendigits gendigits.o -lm –./gendigits –ZAPTELVERSION="" build_tools/make_version_h > version.h.tmp –… make install

October 10-13, 2006 San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California Building libpri cd /usr/src/libpri-* make clean libpri-1.2.2]# make clean –rm -f *.o *.so *.lo *.so.1 *.so.1.0 –rm -f testpri testprilib libpri.a libpri.so.1.0 –rm -f pritest pridump –… make –CC=gcc./mkdep -Wall -Werror -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing- prototypes -g `ls *.c` –gcc -Wall -Werror -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -g -c -o copy_string.o copy_string.c –gcc -Wall -Werror -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -g -c -o pri.o pri.c –gcc -Wall -Werror -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -g -c -o q921.o q921.c –… make install

October 10-13, 2006 San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California Building Asterisk cd /usr/src/asterisk-* make clean make make install

October 10-13, 2006 San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California Installing Asterisk Asterisk Installation Complete YOU MUST READ THE SECURITY DOCUMENT Asterisk has successfully been installed. + + If you would like to install the sample + + configuration files (overwriting any + + existing config files), run: make samples + + +

October 10-13, 2006 San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California Installing Asterisk or You can go ahead and install the asterisk + + program documentation now or later run: make progdocs **Note** This requires that you have + + doxygen installed on your local system

October 10-13, 2006 San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California Installing Asterisk make samples –Installs the sample configuration files in the /etc/asterisk directory make progdocs –Installs the Asterisk program documentation. This uses doxygen to generate the documentation from the source and some areas are documented better than others make config –Configures the Linux system to execute Asterisk automatically on system startup

October 10-13, 2006 San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California Commonly Used CLI Options -c –Console. This allows you to connect to the Asterisk CLI. Example: asterisk -c -v –Verbosity. This is used to set the amount of output for CLI debugging. Example: asterisk –vc or asterisk -vvvvvvc -r –Remote. This is used to reconnect remotely to an already running Asterisk process. Example: asterisk -vr

October 10-13, 2006 San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California Starting Asterisk asterisk-1.2.2]# asterisk –vvvc == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf': Found == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/extconfig.conf': Found Asterisk 1.2.2, Copyright (C) Digium, Inc. and others Created by Mark Spencer Asterisk comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type 'show warranty' for details. This is free software, with components licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 and other licenses; you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'show license' for details. ======================================================== == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/logger.conf': Found Asterisk Event Logger Started /var/log/asterisk/event_log == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/dnsmgr.conf': Found Asterisk Dynamic Loader loading preload modules: == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/modules.conf': Found == Manager registered action Ping == Manager registered action Hangup Asterisk Ready.

October 10-13, 2006 San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California Getting Help *CLI> help ! Execute a shell command abort halt Cancel a running halt add extension Add new extension into context add ignorepat Add new ignore pattern add queue member Add a channel to a specified queue ael debug contexts Enable AEL contexts debug ael debug macros Enable AEL macros debug …

October 10-13, 2006 San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California Starting Asterisk Service Re-Attaching to Asterisk Console If you ran the make config command earlier or manually copied the initialization scripts, use them to start Asterisk. Otherwise, run the executable from /usr/sbin. asterisk-1.2.2]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/asterisk start Starting asterisk: [ OK ] asterisk-1.2.2]# asterisk -vvvr == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf': Found == Parsing '/etc/asterisk/extconfig.conf': Found Asterisk 1.2.2, Copyright (C) Digium, Inc. and others. Created by Mark Spencer Asterisk comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; type 'show warranty' for details. This is free software, with components licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 and other licenses; you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. Type 'show license' for details. ========================================================= Connected to Asterisk currently running on stellar (pid = 20077) remote UNIX connection Verbosity is at least 3 stellar*CLI>

October 10-13, 2006 San Diego Convention Center, San Diego California Q&A Carl Davis President & Chief Architect Stellar System Technologies Executive Director High Tech Business Council of Rochester