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 newt newt_devel newt-static speex-devel

14. Reboot

    reboot && exit

15. Install rpmforge

    rpm -Uhv http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

16. Install epel

    rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-6.noarch.rpm

17. Install mime-construct
18. Cleanup compressed files

    rm -f /usr/src/*gz

19. Install Libpri, DAHDI and Asterisk.
20. Install Google Text to Speech utility.
21. Install Reverse Australia (if in Australia).
22. Install samba client for Asterisk Backups

    yum install samba-client cifs-utils

23. Install logwatch

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