SARK UCS/MVP Quick Start notes.

Installation

You can skip the component installs if you have installed from the .iso and go directly to PCI Setup.

install Asterisk

selintra-sail-2.1.14/2.2.1 will not run or install with any but the latest smeserver-asterisk or anabri releases. Firstly, decide whether you wish to run ISDN BRI cards, if you do, then remove any existing asterisk rpms/installations from your system (with rpm -e) and install the anabri rpms at

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver//contribs/selintra/RPMS/AsteriskForSail-2.1.14/ISDNHFC/

If you DON'T wish to run ISDN BRI cards then install the rpms at

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/smeserver//contribs/selintra/RPMS/AsteriskForSail-2.1.14/None-ISDN/

Asterisk rpms should be installed with rpm -Uvh

Install SARK/Sail

You can retrieve the latest version of sail-2.1.14 from http://www.selintra.co.uk/sail

logon with a user-id of guest and a password of guest

Download the image and do...

yum localinstall sail-2.1.14-5xx.noarch.rpm --enablerepo=base

Install SAIL with...

yum localinstall selintra-sail-2.1.14-???.noarch.rpm --enablerepo=base

Cleanup

Once all of your rpms are installed, you must run ...

signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot

PCI Setup - you MUST perform this step the first time you bring up SAIL-2.1.14.

Open server-manager and choose "PCI Cards" from the SAIL sub-menus. You can learn more about how the PCI detection scheme works in DocChapter222. You will see a screen like this...

<img src="/docs/images/V2.0/pcicards.jpg"

Press the "initialize" button.
press the "Probe" button.

You will see ascreen like this with your hardware listed...

<img src="/docs/images/V2.0/pcicardscan.jpg"

press the "Commit" button.

This will return you to the PCI-Cards screen, which will have been updated with your hardware.

<img src="/docs/images/V2.0/pcicardscanned.jpg"

press the "STOP" button.

This will stop asterisk and unload any unused drivers. The screen will be refreshed and the STOP button will be replaced by a START button.

press the "START" button

Asterisk should now be ready to use.

If there are any PCI cards present on your system, the trunk lines and extensions will have been defined automatically for you. In "PCI Cards Update panel", you can add a description. Here is the update screen for an ISDN card...

<img src="/docs/images/V2.0/pcicardschg.jpg"

DiD numbers can be added later by adding a trunk with a carrier name of "PTT_DiD_GROUP".

Here is the update screen for a TDM Card...

<img src="/docs/images/V2.0/pcicardschgtdm.jpg"

ISDN, TDM and X100P? can be mixed and matched in the system. You can run multiple TDM and X100P? cards. In testing, we've found that multiple HFC cards become unstable after a few minutes or hours running. This is fixed in the latest anabri release with the florz patches applied.

Limitations

For reasons beyond our control, the ISDN (anabri) rpms will only run on the uniprocessor version of the kernel. The non-ISDN rpms will run with both UP and SMP kernels.

The system will initially ONLY run with the 2.6.9-34 kernel shipped with SME Server 7.0 Final. If you have any other kernel (check with uname -r ), then you should read DocChapter2510. As of the 1.2.10 release of anabri-asterisk this is no longer true. This anabri release will run with all current kernel releases up to the full 7.1 release.