SAIL Community Supported PBX

Few things (in no particular order);

Have you tried to install sail-4 on 14.04 LTS server?   It should just go on I think.  We've done it in the past
We've done some more work on the 5.0 deb and it will run on both jessie and wheezy.
We use wheezy images on AWS.  There are several templates in the private AMI library.
If you have proxmox, or similar, you can happily run wheezy as a kvm or an LXC.  A lot of 5.0 development was done on Proxmox templated LXC images.

Kind Regards

V5 is just about ready for Beta.  We had a few late features we needed to get in and they've held it up a little.  It will initially be Wheezy.   We've done some testing on Jessie but SystemD needs a fair bit of extra testing which we haven't done yet.

   

Yes, that is the latest version for SME server.

I think we sorted this for you Paul.  Your carrier wanted numbers in E164 and you were sending BT national format.   

Yes indeed.  IAX needs a timing source in order to use trunking.   Since the smaller systems have no such source you must use trunk=no. 

Sail 5 is in late alpha and should make it into beta in about three weeks at which point you will be able to download and install it to test yourself.  Lots of new features and a new UI which has direct and stepwise navigation for larger users; new features for single-tenant users.   Here's a brief list of what made it into the first out of 5.0

Asterisk 11 or higher
HTTPS only
Frameless design and output buffering make rendering faster, particularly for large tables
some HTML5 usage; older browsers may not run these features
tested with IE/Chrome/Firefox/Safari/Opera
No longer requires DAHDI unless your are running TDM cards
Jquery and Datatables at latest levels
New session management - Login/Logout/Timeout/Nag
New menus and icon set
Navigation re-written, new controls
New searchkey and "steplinks"
Step/Searchkey navigation means you don't need to visit the tables so often on big systems
Sticky tabs, scroll and search
Adaptive tables fit to Window Height (more rows in view)
Proxy now uses dynamic on-the-fly iFrames
New "fast add? tab
ConfBridge replaces MeetMe
Active Xrefs
LDAP Directory can upload Vcard files on-the-fly; export from contacts, import to LDAP.
Ajax cells now single click (ready for touch)
New info boxes in Trunk/Exten edit
extension SIP password default length now 12 characters
Visible counts on the big tables
Adopt feature in Discover panel
Queue Preannounce
Persistent agents
Holiday planner (xmas, Easter, Eid, bank holidays etc.)
Highlight active timers agents conferences and holidays
Highlight down trunks and phones
Take phones on and offline (active/inactive)
Timer state shown in globals
Jquery makes IVR faster/easier
Backup/Restore enhanced with selective restore
Greetings upload/download (mp3 or wav)
Factory Reset with selective parameters
Easy TLS/SRTP with full provisioning support for Snom/Yealink
Easy cellphone twinning to an extension
Voicemail view/playback/delete for non-admin users
Visible logs
Simplified Firewall front-end
IP Blacklist feature

I'm afraid you can't enter '<' or '>' because we strip anything that looks like a tag during cleansing.  In general, you should  attempt to avoid special characters. 

I'm afraid not.   You can run 3 or 4 digit extensions.  We have looked at extending it but the largest single systems we currently have out there run around 2000 extensions so 4 digits should give enough headroom.  I'll put it on the fix list to look at in 4.2/4.3.

OK, thanks for this. 

That's interesting, we have never seen this issue in several hundred Debian SARK installs.  We'll do some research on it. Do you have the references you used by any chance?

sail-4.1 is up onto the server.   It has a lot of new features so I thought I'd list them all and say a word or two about a few.   There may be bugs in some of the new features so I would encourage you to install and test the release on a tame server before you upgrade any customers.  4.1 is available for Debian Wheezy.

Here is the changelog since the last 4.0.1 release (17)

sail (4.1.0-7) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
  * tagged as 4.1.0-7
  - fix to setip for dnsmasq option66
  - fix to discover to handle some phone types which return names

-- CoCoSoft <admin@aelintra.com>  Wed, 15 Jul 2015 18:00:00 +0000

sail (4.1.0-6) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
  * tagged as 4.1.0-6
  - added missing dependency for php5-ldap

-- CoCoSoft <admin@aelintra.com>  Wed, 24 Jun 2015 18:00:00 +0000

sail (4.1.0-5) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
  * tagged as 4.1.0-5
  - fix permissions on http sark_meetme display
  - fix validation on firewall descriptions

-- CoCoSoft <admin@aelintra.com>  Wed, 24 Jun 2015 18:00:00 +0000

sail (4.1.0-4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
  * tagged as 4.1.0-4
  - fix permissions on sark_meetme and rssh port file

-- CoCoSoft <admin@aelintra.com>  Sat, 20 Jun 2015 18:00:00 +0000

sail (4.1.0-3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
  * tagged as 4.1.0-3
  - added templates for Yealink T21D

-- CoCoSoft <admin@aelintra.com>  Fri, 19 Jun 2015 18:00:00 +0000

sail (4.1.0-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
  * tagged as 4.1.0-2
  - Bumped to 4.1

-- CoCoSoft <admin@aelintra.com>  Tue, 9 Jun 2015 18:00:00 +0000
sail (4.1.0-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
  * tagged as 4.1.0-1
  - Bumped to 4.1

-- CoCoSoft <admin@aelintra.com>  Tue, 19 May 2015 18:00:00 +0000

sail (4.0.1-20)
  * tagged as 4.0.1-20
  - added dialout rssh for supported customers
  - added icmp response support
  - added firewall descriptions

sail (4.0.1-19)
  * tagged as 4.0.1-19
  - fix to database structure
  - fix to extension status

sail (4.0.1-18)
  * tagged as 4.0.1-18
  - add sarkdiscover
  - add sarkconference
  - add timers for tenants
  - message change on sarknet reboot
  - sarkpci bugfix to tabs
  - sarktrunk fix to handle unmonitored trunks
  - srkhelper enhance for meetme table
  - srkPageclass bug fix
  - diskabs bugfix for potential loop
  - setip now allows multiple local networks
  - sarkhelper now permanently logs
  - USB automount with autodump of IP
  - require ipcalc in dependencies

The things that require further explanation are as follows

Reverse ssh tunnelling for supported customers

SARK 4.1 can set up an on-demand reverse SSH session from the customer site.   This allows support teams to login to a remote SARK, under customer control, with no prior firewall or NAT setup as long as the SARK box has line-of-sight to the internet.

Ping (ICMP) support

You can turn it on and off in the network panel

Firewall rule descriptions

What it says.   You can make little notes about who's where.

SIP discovery

A new panel in the end-points group.  It will do a sniff of the local network (only an 8 bit search - /24) and tell you what it can see.

Conference panel

Add/delete conference rooms and PINs.

Trunks and Extensions

An unmonitored trunk will now show up as UM instead of X so you can see that they may be up but we don't know because we aren't looking.
Down trunks/extensions  will have the status code if you hover the mouse over the X.

Tenant open/closed master switch

Each Tenant now has it's own open/close throws.   You can set them from the panel or you can set/unset them via BLF Fkey.   Simply set a BLF key to the tenant name and it will act as a visual open/close throw.

Multiple local networks

Set it in sark_sip_local_network.conf.  Handy for VPN's and so forth.

USB automount (SARK200 only).

Label a USB stick as SARKUTILS and shove it in the S200.   It will write a file to the stick with the network information on it (IP address and so forth).   You can also use the stick to reset the S200 to DHCP and change the root password back to default.

We'll update the wiki pages with the new features shortly

INSTALLATION

There is a 4.1.0 repo on the servers so installation is pretty simple.   You can just do

echo deb http://sailpbx.com/sail/sail-4.1/debs/repo/ wheezy main >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update
apt-get install sail

This will install 4.1 and the necessary dependencies.   Make sure you take a copy of the sail database (/opt/sark/db/sark.db) before you start,  if you think you may later want to regress to 4.0.

When you install 4.1; if you have or have had a browser window open to 4.0 on the same sail machine then you MUST clear the browser cache.  If you don't, the Javascript will get all confused and the screen will look very odd when you browse to your new 4.1

Change log is as follows


sail (4.0.1-18)
  * tagged as 4.0.1-18
  - add sarkdiscover
  - add sarkconference
  - add timers for tenants
  - message change on sarknet reboot
  - sarkpci bugfix to tabs
  - sarktrunk fix to handle unmonitored trunks
  - srkhelper enhance for meetme table
  - srkPageclass bug fix
  - diskabs bugfix for potential loop
  - setip now allows multiple local networks
  - sarkhelper now permanently logs
  - USB automount with autodump of IP
  - require ipcalc in dependencies

-- CoCoSoft <admin@aelintra.com>  Sun, 12 Apr 2015 18:00:00 +0000

There is a new pre-req for "ipcalc" so you should install this before running dpkg to install the release.

The main new features are sarkdiscover, an automatic SIP discovery panel and sarkconference a panel for conference bridge maintenance.  Tenants now have there own open/close master switches with BLF support.

Source code is already on GiTHub and a deb will go up shortly onto the sail libs.

QuoteIs there such a thing for V4 and the Pi?

There is; see the installation guide for Debian near the bottom.

The English voice-over does however use the word "pound" in some places.

Hi Richard

Yes, we are interested.

The framesets are ugly but they get the job done so we've never done much with them. 
You can send the work to me at jeff@aelintra.com and we will look at  taking into the base.

Many thanks

S

It's public now.

I thought that had already been done but obviously not.

You should be able to fork it now