System Requirements

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What is needed to get the PBXware up and running?

 

Server Hardware

Memory

Display

Disk Drives

Local Area Networking

Linux Operating System

Supported Browsers

Support Requirements

 

 

Server Hardware

Standard x86-compatible server hardware
400MHz or faster CPU minimum (2000 MHz recommended)
Compatible processors include: Intel®: Celeron®, Pentium® II, Pentium III, Pentium 4, Xeon™,  AMD™: Athlon™, Athlon MP, Athlon XP, Duron™, Opteron™, Via C3, C7

 

Memory

128 MB minimum (256 MB or more recommended)

 

Display

None required. (Exception is during the installation only for)

 

Disk Drives

Standard IDE or SCSI hard drives (CD ROM, Tarball installs only)
Free space for installation—2GB for
CD ROM Installation Method=20GB
Compact Flash Installation Method = 20GB (Please note: This does not mean the compact flash must of this size. This size applies to hard disk where the image from compact flash will be copied to)
USB Disk =
Standard CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive (CD ROM Install only)

 

Local Area Networking

Any Ethernet controller supported by the operating system
Network configured and fully setup with DHCP service

Optional:

If the server is to operate from a private LAN IP then the firewall must be opened to the following ports: TCP: 80, 81, 443, 10001, 5038, 5060-5069, UDP: 4569, 5060-5069, 10000-20000

 

Linux Operating System

One of the following Linux operating systems is required  (tarball edition ONLY)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 2.1, 3.0. 4.0
Cent OS 3.0, 4.0
Mandrake Linux 9.0, 10
Gentoo 2004, 2005
Red Hat Linux 7.2, 8.0, 9.0
SUSE Linux 8.0, 9.0
Debian 3.0
Fedora (Core 3)

 

NOTE:

1.Operating system and all other necessary applications are supplied with PBXware CD ROM and appliance delivery methods..
2.If ZAPTEL hardware is to be used, it should be inserted into the server before installation as to ensure proper loading of the modules
3.X is not required
4.Any of the above distributions need to be installed with their default "server" installation making sure that bison, openssl and openssl-dev or libssl-dev, libnewt are installed
5.Kernel should be Linux 2.6.x+ with kernel sources and headers available.

 

Supported Browsers

System can be administered by using one of the following web browsers:

Internet explorer 6.0+
Firefox 1.0+
Opera 9.*+

 

Support Requirements

In order to provide systems support we need from time to time access to the system server by SSH, HTTP/HTTPS protocols the following is required:

Access to system server as user 'root' 
Networking setup and fully configured to port forward (or firewall opened) to ports 22, 80 and 443.

 

With above in place our technicians will be able to troubleshoot issues. We regret that we are not able to support systems, that do not satisfy above requirements. We ask for understanding.

 

If not too sure how to install PBXware we offer a professional installation service. Please contact sales or visit our web site for full details.