Asterisk Check List

Here is a list of items that I complete when installing Asterisk.

1. Install CentOS (Latest Version)
2. Configure IP Address.

   vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-em1

3. ifup eth0 or ifup em1
4. ssh to IP address to complete all admin remotly.
5. Edit resolve.conf
6. Install system-config-network-tui

   yum -y install system-config-network-tui

   and then run

   system-config-network-tui

7. Time
8. Disable Firewall and selinux
9. Enable verbose startup.
10. Install Sendmail
11. Update

    yum -y update

12. Reboot

    reboot && exit

13. Install Asterisk Prerequisites

    yum -y install gcc gcc-c++ make wget subversion libxml2-devel ncurses-devel openssl-devel vim-enhanced kernel-devel mod_dav_svn sqlite-devel mysql-connector-odbc mysql-devel uuid-devel libuuid newt newt_devel newt-static speex-devel

14. Reboot

    reboot && exit

15. Install rpmforge

    rpm -Uhv http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

16. Install epel

    rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

17. Install mime-construct
18. Install Libpri, DAHDI and Asterisk.
19. Install Logrotate
20. Modify Logger
21. Install Google Text to Speech utility.
22. Install Reverse Australia (if in Australia).
23. Install ACPI support
24. Install samba client for Asterisk Backups

    yum install samba-client cifs-utils

25. Install logwatch

    yum -y install logwatch && vi /etc/aliases && newaliases 

26. Install aCDR
27. Cleanup compressed files

    rm -f /usr/src/*gz