[Users] openser admin

[peter.3.edwards at bt.com]

Hi, Mike.

I've noticed that you've added Upgrade and Uninstall options to the
OpenSER Administrator website - great stuff.  Although, I did notice
that your upgrade instructions don't mention anything about upgrading
the database tables - I presume if you need to do that at a later date,
you'll supply an equivalent SQL script (like the database_tables.sql and
delete_database_tables.sql scripts for install and uninstall,
respectively)?  Might be worth mentioning that.

As for your request for ideas for new features ... I think the
documentation within OpenSER admin could do with a bit more content -
I'm quite new to OpenSER and OpenSER Administrator so I'm not entirely
clear what VoIP Accounts, Domains, Groups, Group Membership etc.
specifically refer to (well, I get accounts and domains but it gets a
bit fuzzier after that).  Perhaps a little paragraph at the top of each
page with a brief but clear description?

On top of that, I guess I come less from a user-centric world and lean
more towards the administrator side of things so I'm less interested in
letting users login to change their profiles and more interested in
seeing options that will allow easier adminstration - such as a web
interface to configuring parts of the openser.cfg file - being able to
toggle the debug level at will, stop/start/restart OpenSER from the web,
change the port OpenSER listens on, enable/disable modules on startup -
and, generally, anything that can be web-ified from the .cfg file.
Obviously, I'm not talking about a replacement to the .cfg file - but
something that can modify some of the various options on the fly would
be useful ...

Anyway, just thought I'd make some suggestions.  I finally got the
logging feature working today (oh, yes, when the log file doesn't exist,
OpenSER doesn't handle the error very gracefully - so perhaps some work
required on the error handling?) so I think I can safely say
everything's working ...

Many thanks,

Peter.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces at openser.org 
> [mailto:users-bounces at openser.org] On Behalf Of Mike Williams
> Sent: 26 August 2006 15:07
> To: users at openser.org
> Subject: Re: [Users] openser admin
> 
> 
> Peter & Sunkara,
> 
> Thanks for the good idea, I hadn't even thought of uninstall 
> or upgrade 
> situations.
> 
> The phplib_id problem can be solved by readding that column. 
> There is a 
> commented-out SQL statement in the SQL script that you can 
> use. It is listed 
> below as well.
> 
> ALTER TABLE subscriber ADD COLUMN  phplib_id varchar(32) NOT 
> NULL default '' 
> FIRST;
> 
> I will work on these things today. Also, please let me know 
> of any feature 
> requests you have, otherwise I will have nothing to work on.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike Williams

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