Worried about installing the packages of asterisk??? .Fed up with the dependencies asking while installing the asterisk packages???? .AsteriskNOW is a solution for those who is not at all good in linux or dont have time for searching the dependencies.AsteriskNOW is an open source Software Appliance; a customized Linux distribution that includes Asterisk (the leading open source telephony engine and tool kit), the AsteriskGUI™, and all other software needed for an Asterisk system. AsteriskNOW is easy to install, and offers flexibility, functionality and features not available in advanced, high-cost proprietary business systems.

Any one who know to install linux OS can use asteriskNOW like installing a normal linux OS. AsteriskNOW can be called as Asterisk+Zaptel+Libpri installed in a CentOS.The user need or have to worry about installing these package separately and the dependency issue caused during the installation.

Due to some trademark issue the Digium renamed the Zaptel project as DAHDI.The configuration is almost same as like Zaptel.

Details should be available at http://www.asterisk.org/zaptel-to-dahdi

Configuration Files

/etc/zaptel.conf Becomes /etc/dahdi/system.conf
/etc/asterisk/zapata.conf Becomes /etc/asterisk/chan_dahdi.conf

Channel Name

Chennel “Zap” replaces as “DAHDI”

eg: For Zap : Zap/g2/984XXXXXXX

eg: For DAHDI : DAHDI/g2/984XXXXXXX

The CDR will be configured automatically, if you want cdr-mysql, you need to unstall mysql addon.You can search with it with ‘yum search cdr-addon’ and for installing can use ‘yum install cdr-addon’.

Asterisk can be started by using the command ‘amportal start’ .

We can also use ‘amportal stop’ or ‘amportal restart’ if asterisk is running already.