SAIL Defaults
SAIL Default Value Policy
The general rule SAIL/SARK follows is that the /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/sarkhpe will impose a default value if the variable is empty. The said binary is bundled into the sail rpm for SME and centOS installs and for others like ARM / Debian, it is provided as a separate RPM.
The units for the variables generally follow Digium API - blame them for any inconsistency.
The values can be set in the sqlite3 database - /opt/sark/db/sark.db - preferably only if it is not settable in the SAIL GUI.
SAIL Defaults
| Variable | Default Value | Units | sark.db table | GUI Settable | Available Since | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LOCALAREA | globals | No | v3.1.1-22, v4.0.0-41 | area code prefix to be prepended | ||
| LOCALDLEN | globals | No | v3.1.1-22, v4.0.0-41 | prepend LOCALAREA if short dial length | ||
| IVRKEYWAIT | 6 | seconds | globals | No | v3.1.1-22, v4.0.0-41 | |
| IVRDIGITWAIT | 6000 | milliseconds | globals | No | v3.1.1-22, v4.0.0-41 |
Voice Mail Workarounds in SAIL
- Refer Forum Post
- Asterisk conf files - asterisk, SAIL and user configs are separated with a cascade of includes.
- However, although asterisk supports includes it doesn't always follow what's in them.
- Voicemail is a case in point. Turns out that if voicemail entries were in an included file and a user changes their vmail password in the phone, then asterisk wouldn't look in the includes, so the change would not get done. Therefore everything was moved back into voicemail.conf and includes were suppressed.
- Therefore in SAIL v3.1.1-22 and v4.0.0, in the file /opt/sark/generator/vmailSQL.php, the lines 41-42 are commented out, but in the equivalent lines in SAIL v3.1.0-145 they were not.
// "#include sark_vmail_main.conf \n" .
// "#include sark_customer_vmail_main.conf \n")
Notes
- Further info on what the LOCALAREA and LOCALDLEN variables do: They are an aid to local short-dialling over a SIP trunk but, as yet, far from complete. All it does is prepend whatever is in LOCALAREA to the dialled number, but only if the dialled number is LOCALDLEN digits in length. In the UK, local subscriber numbers can be 5,6 or 7 digits in length. Area codes are 4 5 or 6 digits in length. It just means we can dial a short local number when dealing with a SIP trunk and SAIL will prepend the correct area code before it does the dial.
