Installers are reminded that all Enswitch installations must be licensed.

The recommended Linux distribution for this Enswitch version is Ubuntu 22.04. If in doubt, use this. Ubuntu 20.04 ships with a version of Perl that has a known problem with Kamailio and should be avoided.

All machines

• General precautions
• Create enswitch user and group
• Configure administrator accounts
• Install packages
• Install Enswitch
• Configure Enswitch
• Identify the init system
• Install iptables
• Edit /etc/hosts and set hostnames
• Check time zone

MySQL machines

• Install packages
• Edit my.cnf
• Start MySQL
• Create Enswitch database

Web machines

• Install packages
• Configure web server
• Configure system settings on the web interface

Asterisk machines

• Install packages
• Install Asterisk
• Configure Asterisk
• Configure DAHDI
• Install G.729 codec
• Start Asterisk

Kamailio machines

• Install packages
• Install Kamailio
• Configure Kamailio
• Start Kamailio

File server machines

• Configure integrity checking

Multiple machine installations

• Create crontab entries on all machines except the primary database server
• Configure NFS server
• Configure NFS clients
• Configure replication if more than one MySQL server
• Configure corosync and pacemaker if more than one MySQL server
• Configure corosync and pacemaker if more than one Kamailio server
• Configure multiple active Kamailio servers

Optional extras

• Sub-systems

Post installation

• Add machines to licensing server
• Configure backups
• Continue to the system owner's guide »