1---2title: 'Latest projects'3date: '2008-12-21'4published_at: '2008-12-21T18:33:00.002+11:00'5tags: ['asterisk', 'cacti', 'dirvish', 'linux', 'open source', 'opennms', 'voip sip', 'work', 'zimbra']6author: 'Gavin Jackson'7excerpt: 'Well, the last few months has been pretty interesting at work - started my new job at Les Mills Asia Pacific ( http://www.lesmills.com.au ), don''t panic - I''m still in IT! Asterisk First project invol...'8updated_at: '2008-12-21T19:30:31.295+11:00'9legacy_url: 'http://www.gavinj.net/2008/12/latest-projects.html'10---1112Well, the last few months has been pretty interesting at work - started my new job at Les Mills Asia Pacific ([http://www.lesmills.com.au](http://www.lesmills.com.au)), don't panic - I'm still in IT!1314Asterisk First project involced setting up an Asterisk server for a call center (using a Digium [TE-120P](http://www.digium.com/en/products/digital/te120p.php) card to interface with an ISDN PRI connection).1516We used some pretty nifty features, including setting up a primary menu system that routes calls into incoming call queues (that agents are subsribed to), most of the configuration was done using the AsteriskGUI web interface (the remainder performed by hacking the individual config files.1718I found the freely available [Asterisk: The Future of Telephony](http://www.asteriskdocs.org/) book very useful. We use a combination of [Snom300](http://www.snom.com/sv/products/snom-300-voip-phone/) and [Snom360](http://www.snom.com/sv/products/snom-360-voip-phone/) VOIP handsets throughout the organisation (in conjunction with switches that support power over ethernet) Dirvish, Backup Exec and Lacie Big4 Second project involved ensuring that all of the corporate servers are backed up properly - ended up using dirvish for the Unix servers and Symantec Backup Exec for our primary domain controller.1920Offsite backup is performed using rsync to a Lacie Bigger Disk Extreme (at least until our Lacie Big 4s arrive - these are cool becuase they support RAID 5, and user replaceable drive modules).2122Cacti and Opennms While setting up the backup system, I thought I had better set up some monitoring software - I first ran with cacti (which supports snmLatsp monitoring), unfortunately cati does not support alerting (out of the box), so I ended up setting up Opennms which does provide alerting facilities (and some pretty sweet network autodiscovery facilities).2324Fry riends of mine have had a lot of success with Nagios - I didn't get a chance to fully evaluate it, but it did look very promising.2526Zimbra Most recent project was setting up a groupware server (supporting email, calendar, contacts - among other things) - we selected Zimbra with the Outlook connector and Mobile options.2728Zimbra has one of the best Ajax webmail interfaces I have used (which rivals gmail), it also ships with the Lucene serach engine and Verity html conversion tool (that allowews you to view common attachments as html).2930If our business requirements did not include Microsoft Outlook and mobile device integration, I'm sure we could have happily used the open source zimbra offering.3132I must admit, being able to sync my iPhone's calendar and email (via ssl) to work is pretty neat (and keeps the CEO happy).3334Links:3536- Asterisk: [http://www.asterisk.org](http://www.asterisk.org)37- Dirvish: [http://www.dirvish.org](http://www.dirvish.org)38- Lacie Big4 Quadra: [http://www.lacie.com/au/products/product.htm?pid=11113](http://www.lacie.com/au/products/product.htm?pid=11113)39- Cacti: [http://www.cacti.net](http://www.cacti.net)40- Opennms: [http://www.opennms.org](http://www.opennms.org)41- Zimbra: [http://www.zimbra.com/](http://www.zimbra.com/)424344