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Mitel Forums => Mitel MiVoice Business/MCD/3300 => Topic started by: bajangerry on June 05, 2015, 02:10:42 PM
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Hi Guys,
I have seen some guys looking for a simple way to monitor the alarm state on a Mitel 3300 PBX so I thought I would share this site with you. It is quite a simple setup on any Windows PC or server and an online website that hosts the results.
http://simplealarm.strongware.ky/index.html
Gerry
P.S.
Hope this doesn't violate any forum rules as this is a free app for anyone to use!
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If you want to try it out and need any help just let me know.
Gerry
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Saw that posted elsewhere, there has also be some discussion about the SimpleSMDR here. I need to look more into that myself. Really would like to install it MSL though.
Thanks Gerry for your contributions ;D
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Ah, so the preferred option would be to have the local app running on the MSL instead of a Windows server? I can probably get that done as well. Will post here if I do but keep checking the website for updates as well ok?
I haven't done anything with SimpleSMDR in years, didn't realise anyone was using it as I got little feedback recently. Maybe I should go back and refresh it a bit as well.
Gerry
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You may want to look it this. http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:Developers_Manual (http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Documentation:Developers_Manual)
Also maybe running it on a SME server wouldn't be bad either. IMHO
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Tried to get simple smdr running a few times (maybe 5 or six) but failed miserably even following the instructions to what I thought were the letter; so i gave up.
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johnp, my thought process here was that everyone has a Windows server (as much as we may hate them) so the windows app would make it easier for the average office to make use of SimpleAlarm. I could have a look at getting it working on SME server at some time.
x-man, what problems did you have with SimpleSMDR? Maybe I could help you get it running.
Gerry
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I could never get the network card to work in the VM IIRC. Even following your comprehensive instructions.
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I may create a new VM soon that you could have a try with instead. Keep an eye on the website for updates as not sure when I will get to it as kinda focused on the SimpleAlarm right now.
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johnp,
I will have to redevelop the app to work on MSL as perl is not fully available. Will see what I can do as a bash script option but I don't think it is going to be possible as those scripts are limited.
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What about SME? I know it has mod_perl
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johnp,
I will download SME and give it a shot for you.
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Thanks :) It is the most similar distro to MSL. I would think putting it in an ibay that has public access would be the way to go.
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Downloading right now. Not sure what an ibay is but I will figure it out! :)
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johnp,
Do you have any experience in installing perl modules in SME? I tried using cpan as I would typically do in other distros but for some reason that is not working in SME.
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Never mind, figured it out using http://wiki.contribs.org/Dag#tab=For_SME_9
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That was going to be my question, are they in the dag repo :) Also if you go into the forum you can do an anvanced search by clicking on the magifying glass
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Perl packager PAR-Packer is not playing nicely. Dag doesn't have it in his repository and it isn't compiling nicely. Will have to play around with this some more.
Can you tell me where the default webpage for this server is located? I would like to simply upload my websites to it for testing rather than learn the ibay right now just to make sure things work properly.
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/home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/html
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johnp,
Are you ready to be a guinea pig? :) See the attached zip file. Inside are all the files that I needed to get SimpleAlarm running on a SME server. I know it is not a ibay but I have not had time to investigate that as yet. See if you can follow the readme.txt file and get it running on your server.
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I'll try and look into this over the weekend and let you know what I find
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I was looking over the readme and I know sme creates a mysql password for the root user. It can be found, just have to look it's location again. What would need to be done differently?
I'm sure if it can run in the Primary location. it should also run in an ibay. Ibays allow for a higher level of configuration but are generally accessible via http://localhost/ibayname or alternately a FQDN can be setup via hosts that points directly to that location.
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After looking closer, I see the mysql command only sets up a new user, database and password for that user.
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Just started testing and it looks good so far. I haven't fully got my config setup for the email, I was hoping to use the localhost as a smart sender and have asked the possibility with Gerry.
Yes it runs in the Primary as well as an ibay. I also have yet to setup a cron job but just ruuning the script manually inbetween an no alarm and an alarm state responded as described for the most part. You do need to click on the pbx name for historical info.
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Pretty much done with my testing and from what I see, this can be beneficial for those who like to store historical records. I did set it up on a SME server ibay that was open to internal and required password from the internet and it worked as expected. I setup up alarms.mydomin.com as a domain on the server that went to the ibay. The alarm discovery email wasn't working until I changed to use the sme qmail to send.
I think my testing was thorough and found some nice behavior for a admin user. All in all, give a good graphical represntation of alarm status with notification.
Now to look closer at the SimpleSmdr.