Installing ipbx

From Taridium

ipbx is available as free 5 user edition, 30, 60, 100 (eXpress) and unlimited user (IPBX and IPBX Elite) 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 - requires license key
• ipbx v2 free 5 user 64bit edition
• ipbx v2 64bit edition - requires license key

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

• free repository (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
5. Run ipbx-config with option 1
6. Follow standard configuration instructions

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