SIP based Zimlet?

[grazman]

I see there is a "click to call" functionality from Skype and Asterisk.

We use a sip based PBX (not Skype or Asterisk). Is the shipping Zimlet specific enough to need to be extended or "rewritten" for different standards based PBX's? Is the Zimlet specific to the user, the domain or is it a global setting for the server?

[KevinH]

It works with Asterisk and that's all we've tried it with. It may work with other's but you'd need to test it. All the code is open source so it should be easy to make changes if you need to. The Zimlet has some user and some system settings.

[grazman]

I have a VOIP PBX (sip based) installed and available on the Internet. I was wondering if anyone has a Zimbra 3.2 (non-production, given the amount of issues I've seen in threads when enabling the zimlet) system and want to try? Am I the only person out here "not" using Asterisk?

[skwdenyer]

Originally Posted by grazman

I have a VOIP PBX (sip based) installed and available on the Internet. I was wondering if anyone has a Zimbra 3.2 (non-production, given the amount of issues I've seen in threads when enabling the zimlet) system and want to try? Am I the only person out here "not" using Asterisk?

No, you're not. Trying hard to avoid Asterisk... Mind telling us what you're using? I'm implementing sipX right now and am going to be looking at integrating this with Zimbra at some stage, but probably not this moment... Your experiences with something else would be useful to many of us, not just from an integrating-with-Zimbra perspective.

Regards, Silas

[grazman]

Also on sipxpbx here. Running 3.4 stable on fc4 and love the simplicity. Not an Asterisk fan though I know lots of folks are. I wanted a standards based system, and right now it's probably the better thought out system available (IMHO).

See what we're doing with it so far, more to come when I have time to write it up.

http://www.myitdepartment.net/index....d=18&Itemid=34

Originally Posted by skwdenyer

No, you're not. Trying hard to avoid Asterisk... Mind telling us what you're using? I'm implementing sipX right now and am going to be looking at integrating this with Zimbra at some stage, but probably not this moment... Your experiences with something else would be useful to many of us, not just from an integrating-with-Zimbra perspective.

Regards, Silas

[natrixgli]

Just out of curiosity, why would anyone want to avoid asterisk?

-n8

[grazman]

Originally Posted by natrixgli

Just out of curiosity, why would anyone want to avoid asterisk?

-n8

I suppose it depends on what your selling (upstairs I mean). Asterisk is not known for ease of configuration or adherence to standards (except maybe its own). The text files are cludgy, and you are constantly patching it, which is "un-pbx like".

Not bashing Asterisk, just prefer standards based stuff instead of cludgy attempts to fits something into an existing architecture. I did a write up on sipXpbx after I gave up on Asterisk. I saw a lot of problems with the schema for my environment, and prefered to be able to use a redundant system like sipxpbx and found the more basic system a trouble free and easy to administer environment which I like.

I personally don't feel there's anything "wrong" with Asterisk, unless you go beyond 8 or 9 handsets, then you're looking at multiple "what-if" scenarios dependent on the hardware and interface cards you've chosen. In my environment, a basic box running sipxpbx can scale easily to several hundred handsets, since the "pbx" is doing only one thing and the processing is distributed to the devices where the interface actually hands off.

At the same time, you might dismiss this all as hogwash.

[natrixgli]

Hmmm.


I think Asterisk conf files are easy to write, especially if you use macros. If you aren't the manual dialplan writing type, you can always let FreePBX do it for you.

I like the fact that Asterisk covers most of the bases, and that it can be easily integrated with a number of different programs. It's usability seems so much more infinite than SipX.

But hey, you say "lynuks" I say "lihnuks"... I see your points too. I've been thinking about splitting up Asterisk's duties among a few different boxes, but we'll see how comfortable it is on it's new home. (the mighty AMD X2 4600 with 2 GB DDR2)

-n8

[Rubble]

Grazman, skwdenyer: Did either of you make any progress getting SipX to dial using a zimlet? We use SipX and are just starting to deploy Zimbra. We want our users to use the Zimbra web client instead of Outlook, but features drive everything. At this point it looks like it might be easier to get Outlook to dial instead of a zimlet. Any success stories before I check out the zimlet?

Thanks,

-Bob

[Rubble]

Hm, I guess that means "no".

Ah well, it's too bad sipX doesn't get more attention in the world.