SARK V4.0.0 Introduction
SARK V4.0.0 is a lightweight TDM & Voip PBX for the SMB/SME market segment. It is based upon Digium's Asterisk switching platform. SARK V4.0.0 will run on any of the following platforms:-
- Debian Wheezy (i386, and64, armel, armha)
- SME Server 8.x (http://contribs.org)
- Aelintra's embedded S500 (PIKA Technologies Warp 2 ppc) platform
- Aelintra's embedded S200 (ARM) platform
- Raspbian (ARM) platform (Beta)
The product has established a reputation for being easy-to-use with a very small footprint while being functionally able to compete with traditional proprietary PBX offerings at a much lower overall cost-of-ownership.
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V4 background
V4 features a complete rewrite of the SARK PBX application front-end and a minor feature enhance to the sarkhpe logic engine. In V2 & V3 it became apparent that the idea of scrollable tables becomes unwieldy with high numbers of endpoints. With some of our customers having more than 1100 extensions on a single system we needed a better way to handle these large tables. In the end we decided to make use of jquery to provide fast, sortable, searchable tables with ajax cell update where practical. We also received a lot of requests from customers to provide limited admin capabilities for differing levels of user so we have added an admin user page which allows the superadmin to create other admin users, with varying levels of authority. In 4.0.1 this was further extended to allow individual end-users to easily manage their voicemail and BLF phone features (Aastra, CiscoSpa, Polycom, snom and Yealink) from their own login screen.
V3/V4 differences
- new table structure - tables are sortable and free-form searchable without recourse back to the server.
- Where practical, tables are ajax updateable.
- Cells rendered in blue can be updated in-place.
- User panel allows creation of sub-admins and end-users
- Extended backup/recovery
- Enhanced tenant support
V4 screenshots
basic layout
Here are a few screenshots from V4, (V4.0.1 and later is slightly different).
here is an example of an update to a trunk destination. Simply double-click on the cell to perform an update
User admin screen
By clicking on "Scope" for a user you can set which screens they can see in their menu
Installation
Sail v4.0 can be installed on a wide range of Distros and platforms. See the installations noptes for your platform in the wiki.
