Perl Installation Notes The Perl DBI module provides a generic interface for database access. You can write a DBI script that works with many different database engines without change. To use DBI, you must install the DBI module, as well as a DataBase Driver (DBD) module for each type of database server you want to … Read more
Installing MySQL on Linux Linux supports a number of different solutions for installing MySQL. Table Linux Installation Methods and Information As an alternative, you can use the package manager on your system to automatically download and install MySQL with packages from the native software repositories of your Linux distribution. These native packages are often several … Read more
Overview of the MySQL Database Management Sysytem MYSQL – MySQL, the most popular Open Source SQL database management system, is developed, distributed, and supported by Oracle Corporation. The MySQL website (http://www.mysql.com/) provides the latest information about MySQL software. MySQL is a database management system. A database is a structured collection of data. It may be … Read more
Web Interfaces Flash Operator Panel The Flash Operator Panel (or FOP, as it’s more commonly known) is an interface primarily for the use of switchboard operators. FOP uses Adobe Flash to present an interface through a web browser, and connects to Asterisk through the Asterisk Manager Interface. There are two versions of the Flash Operator … Read more
Distributed Universal Number Discovery (DUNDi) Distributed Universal Number Discovery, or DUNDi, is a service discovery protocol that can be used for locating resources at remote locations. The original intention of DUNDi was to permit decentralized routing among many peers using a General Peering Agreement (GPA). The GPA is intended to take on the role of … Read more
Clustering The word “clustering” can mean different things to different people. Some people would say clustering is simply having a replicated system on standby available to be turned on when the primary system fails. To others, clustering is having several systems working in concert with one another, with replicated data, fully redundant, and infinitely expandable. … Read more
Asterisk Gateway Interface (AGI) The Asterisk dialplan has evolved into a simple yet powerful programming interface for call handling. However, many people, especially those with a prior programming background, still prefer implementing their custom call handling in a different programming language. Using another programming language may also allow you to utilize existing code for integration … Read more
Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI) The Asterisk Manager Interface (AMI) is a system monitoring and management interface provided by Asterisk. It allows live monitoring of events that occur in the system,as well as enabling requests for Asterisk to perform some action. The available actions are wide-ranging and include things such as returning status information and originating … Read more
Fax What Is a Fax? A fax machine allows a facsimile (copy) of a document to be transmitted across a telephone line. In the Internet age, this sort of functionality seems useless; however, prior to ubiquitous Internet access, this was a very useful thing indeed. Fax machines scan a document into a digital format, transmit … Read more
Text-to-Speech Utilities Text-to-speech utilities are used to convert strings of words into audio that can be played to your callers. Text-to-speech has been around for many years, and has been continually improving. While we can’t recommend text-to-speech utilities to take the place of professionally recorded prompts, they do offer some degree of usefulness in applications … Read more