SARK UCS/MVP 2.1.14 Quick Start notes.

2.1.14 is a stable pre-release. It may, nevertheless, contain bugs and you should not consider this release for use in production until it has been tested in your own environment.

Installation

selintra-sail-2.1.14 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-2.1.13/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-2.1.13/None-ISDN/

Finally, install selintra-sail-2.1.14-nnn which you will find here...

ftp://81.149.154.14/Pre-Releases/

Installed as follows...

rpm -Uvh smeserver-asterisk*.rpm and then yum install selintra-sail

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

/sbin/e-smith/signal-event console-save

Note. To run automatic provisioning via the on-board Sail tftp-server then you need tftp-server. Now that CentOS base in enabled by default tftp-server is installed with yum when you install selintra-sail

PCI Setup

N.B. You MUST perform this step the first time you bring up the system.

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 "LOAD" 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. We believe we have a fix for this but we have not yet applied it. For this reason we suggest that you don't run more than one ISDN card in your system for the present.

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 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 ), the system will fail to install.