Upgrade from Asterisk 1.2 to Asterisk 1.4 easily
So you’ve been stucked with Asterisk 1.2 and probably you’ve used vicidialnow 1.3.
Here’s a painless way to upgrade from Asterisk 1.2 to Asterisk 1.4 for your VICIDIAL.
First let’s create a directory.
cd /usr/src
mkdir asterisk1-4
Let’s get the VICIDIAL patched Asterisk.
cd asterisk1-4
wget http://download.vicidial.com/required-apps/asterisk-1.4.39.1-vici.tar.gz
How about zaptel and libpri?
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/zaptel/zaptel-1.4.12.1.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/libpri/libpri-1.4.9.tar.gz
Get the optional but VICIDIAL friendly sound addons
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/sounds/asterisk-core-sounds-en-ulaw-current.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/sounds/asterisk-core-sounds-en-wav-current.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/sounds/asterisk-core-sounds-en-gsm-current.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/sounds/asterisk-extra-sounds-en-ulaw-current.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/sounds/asterisk-extra-sounds-en-wav-current.tar.gz
wget http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/sounds/asterisk-extra-sounds-en-gsm-current.tar.gz
wget http://download.vicidial.com/required-apps/asterisk-moh-freeplay-gsm.tar.gz
wget http://download.vicidial.com/required-apps/asterisk-moh-freeplay-ulaw.tar.gz
wget http://download.vicidial.com/required-apps/asterisk-moh-freeplay-wav.tar.gz
Now we start extracting the tar files
tar xvf asterisk-*.tar
tar xvf libpri-*.tar
tar xvf zaptel-*.tar
Be aware that you need to stop your Asterisk process first. Once stopped remove the module ztdummy(if you’re using one) zttranscode and zaptel. Here’s how
rmmod ztdummy zttranscode zaptel
Because most of the time zaptel crashes if you upgrade from Asterisk 1.2 to Asterisk 1.4, we delete the old zaptel directory at /lib/modules/$(uname -r) .
Now let’s start compiling!
Let’s do the libpri first!
cd /usr/src/asterisk1-4
cd libpri-1.4.10.1
make clean
make
make install
Went well? Let’s do zaptel.
cd ../zaptel-1.4.12.1
./configure
make clean
make
make install
If you haven’t encounter any errors yet. Let’s compile Asterisk 1.4.
cd ../asterisk-1.4.39.1-vici
./configure
make clean
make
make install
If you did not encounter any errors, it means your Asterisk 1.2 is now Asterisk 1.4!
Got more questions? Hit the comments.
VICIDIAL for 500 seats Call Center.
Here’s some tips also on getting VICIDIAL stable for 500 seats center. (*Note I am currently the IT Manager of a 600+ seats call center here in the Philippines.)
VICIDIAL cluster per campaign.
Some outbound campaigns only have 10 agents some 30 agents some 50 agents and the biggest i have right now is 280 agents.
What I usually do is asks the expansion plan. If it will do 40 agents per shift from the start, I usually create a new cluster for it. If it is only 20 agents I do single server.
You will also need at least a team of dialer people who will upload leads /modify campaigns/check system status and a whole lot more for VICIDIAL.
When it comes to hardware, it all boils down to a quad core for the asterisks/vicidial and the biggest and the baddest server you can get your hand’s on for the database. I use an IBM m2 series with 320gb hard drive on raid10, 32gb ram and centos 64bit.
Although it’s a lot of servers to manage and purchase, the cost of VICIDIAL being fully functional and head-ache free can seriously help bring the CAPEX and OPEX lower than what you should be spending if you are using a closed source system.
And yes I usually get drunk on friday nights, can sleep far more than 8 hours a day and have a hobby other than computers.
I am also available as a VICIDIAL Consultant. Hit the contact link to contact me
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