SARK V4.0.0 Introduction
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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 running on either; the SME Server platform; the PIKA Technologies Warp embedded platform or Centos/Redhat EL5 Linux. 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.
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 700 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 also added an admin user page which allows the superadmin to create other admin users with varying levels of authority.
V3/V4 differences
- new table structure - tables are sortable and freeform 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
- Extended backup/recovery
- Enhanced tenant support
V4 screenshots
basic layout
Here are a few screenshots from V4
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 either using our iso image or manually using RPMs and yum. If you are unfamiliar with EL5 rpms then you may find it easier to install the iso.
ISO install
In general, the iso install is the same as the V3.1.1 server install. You can learn more here Installation.
Default login after New Install
The browser can be found at port https://your.pbx.ip:8443 on your PBX server.
The default user is admin and the default password is asterisk.
