Installing ipbx

From Taridium

ipbx is available as free 5 user edition, 30,60,100 and unlimited user editions. If you are trying to install a registered copy, please make sure your server is connected to the internet during the installation process. If you cannot provide internet connectivity to your ipbx installation, please contact licensing@taridium.com for details on how to manually license your copy.

Contents 1 ipbx Downloads 2 Minimum Hardware Requirements 3 ISO Image Installation 4 Manual Installation 4.1 Standard Installation 4.2 Free Edition 5 Next Steps

ipbx Downloads

To install ipbx enterprise edition or eXpress, download the latest ipbx ISO:

• ipbx v2 free 5 user 32bit edition
• ipbx v2 32 bit edition
• ipbx v2 free 5 user 64bit edition
• ipbx v2 64bit edition

or for RedHat EL5 or CentOS 5.x based operating systems:

• free repository (both 32bit and 64bit)

Installation of ipbx requires basic UNIX/LINUX proficiency.

Minimum Hardware Requirements

Pentium III or higher (1GHz) with at least 1GB of RAM. 2GB of total disk space, 2x Ethernet recommended or Taridium provided SRV-1 or SRV-2 class server. It is not recommended to deploy a VoIP PBX system on a virtual server such as VMWare or similar due to call quality concerns.

Make sure your selected hardware is supported by RedHat™ EL / CentOS. For a complete list go to Hardware Compatibility List You should be particularly aware of RAID controller compatibility if you are planning to use a hardware RAID disk configuration.

ISO Image Installation

Insert the ipbx CD-ROM and boot the installer. Go through the installation procedure and select the default values or change them as applicable.

The default root password is taridium200 - change this immediately to prevent unauthorized access! Always stage ipbx system within a local area network protected by a firewall/router.

Manual Installation

A manual installation requires a CentOS 5.x (or other RedHat™ Enterprise RHEL 5 compatible) operating system.

Standard Installation

This method requires an ipbx license key

1. Download and install the taridium repository RPM.
2. Run the taridium-repo script and enter your license key to enable access to the repository.
3. Disable SELinux by entering setenforce 0 and editing the /etc/selinux/config and setting SELINUX=disabled
4. Run yum install asterisk16-core asterisk16-voicemail asterisk16-addons ipbx -y

Free Edition

If you installed the free repository you can skip the steps described above, by installing the ipbxfree RPM package. This will take care of ipbx and asterisk packages.

 [ipbx ~]# yum install ipbxfree

Next Steps

• Registering ipbx (not required for free edition)
• Initial Configuration