[Announcement] Asterisk::LDAP initial release

Ben Klang has posted details of a perl module for creating Asterisk configs from LDAP:

Fellow developers,

My organization uses LDAP extensively to manage our customer information and we were looking for a way to store phone system information with the rest of our data. Unfortunately the solutions we found were not adequate for our needs. To fill that void, I humbly submit Asterisk::LDAP.

Asterisk::LDAP is a Perl module I have written and released under the terms of the GPL which is capable of generating Asterisk version 1.0 compatible configuration files from an LDAP data source. Currently it supports generation of extensions.conf, voicemail.conf and musiconhold.conf. Future plans include sip.conf, iax.conf and meetme.conf. As this is the first release it is sure to include lots bugs so I disclaim any kind of responsiblity for anything including remembering why I wrote any particular piece of code any particular way. That being said it has been tested in my environment and I think it works well. Example scripts are in the tarball, including one which can be dropped in voicemail.conf's 'externpass' argument to update a user's voice mailbox PIN when changed via the telephone interface.

There is much work left to do, not the least of which is documentation. I have made an attempt to document the methods via perldoc ('perldoc Asterisk::LDAP' after installation) and through the example code. I welcome any suggestions or contributions.

I also want to say that I KNOW this is a big ugly hack. The Right Way to do it will be Real Time Asterisk. Unfortunately I needed a solution yesterday and this fit the bill.

If you think you'd like to take a look for yourself, hop on over to http://projects.alkaloid.net.

Enjoy! Comments and criticisms to ben@alkaloid.net. Complaints to /dev/null.

Thanks,
/BAK/