pascom Appliance

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• pascom Server System Structure

pascom Appliance

Modify your Firewall

Many companies have no Internet access restrictions and can therefore immediately start using your pascom appliance without needing to make any alterations to their Firewall.

However, should you choose to, you can specify which internet services your company network is permitted to access by opening the following ports and allowing the pascom appliance access in order to ensure that your pascom phone system operates optimally:

pascom Services

pascom Server Installation (Only for new / re-installs)

Requirements

• USB stick with a minimum capacity of 8GB
• Free of charge Flash Tool Rufus (only for Windows)
• pascom Server Software ISO File

Flash the USB Stick

Connect the USB stick to your compute and start Rufus. Now select the pascom Server ISO file under Select image, select the USB stick via Select drive and finally click the START:

Copy Server-ISO

Now copy the server ISO directly to the USB stick and rename it to pascom.iso.

Variant 1 | Create Configfile

Create the file setup.json directly on the USB stick with the following content:

{
    "device": "sda",
    "skipWelcome": true,
    "skipDevice": true,
    "skipHostname": true,
    "hostname": "usbsetup",
    "skipNetwork": true,
    "skipStartNetwork": true,
    "skipBrowser": true,
    "skipReboot": true,
    "halt": true,
    "preinst" : {
 
    }
}

{
    "device": "sdb",
    "skipWelcome": true,
    "skipDevice": true,
    "skipHostname": true,
    "hostname": "usbsetup",
    "skipNetwork": true,
    "skipStartNetwork": true,
    "skipBrowser": true,
    "skipReboot": true,
    "halt": true,
    "preinst" : {
 
    }
}

Variant 2 | Create unattended Configfile

(Instead of the configuration file above)
It is often not possible to connect a monitor to the pascom appliance. To perform an unattended installation without clicking through the setup interface create the file setup.json with the following content, also directly on the USB-Stick

{
    "device": "sda",
    "skipWelcome": true,
    "skipHostname": true,
    "skipDevice": true,
    "hostname": "usbsetup",
    "skipNetwork": true,
    "skipStartNetwork": true,
    "skipBrowser": true,
    "skipReboot": true,
    "halt": true,
    "preinst" : {
        "device": "sda",
        "skipWelcome": true,
        "skipHostname": true,
        "hostname": "pascom-server",
        "skipNetwork": true,
        "network": {
            "interface": "enp1s0",
            "mode": "static",
            "ip": "192.168.100.1",
            "netmask": "255.255.255.0",
            "gateway": "192.168.100.254",
            "dns1": "192.168.100.254",
            "dns2": ""
       }
    }
}

{
    "device": "sdb",
    "skipWelcome": true,
    "skipHostname": true,
    "skipDevice": true,
    "hostname": "usbsetup",
    "skipNetwork": true,
    "skipStartNetwork": true,
    "skipBrowser": true,
    "skipReboot": true,
    "halt": true,
    "preinst" : {
        "device": "sdb",
        "skipWelcome": true,
        "skipHostname": true,
        "hostname": "pascom-server",
        "skipNetwork": true,
        "network": {
            "interface": "enp1s0",
            "mode": "static",
            "ip": "192.168.100.1",
            "netmask": "255.255.255.0",
            "gateway": "192.168.100.254",
            "dns1": "192.168.100.254",
            "dns2": ""
       }
    }
}

Customizable Parameters:

Connect, install and remove the USB stick

The USB stick prepared in this way can now be connected directly to the USB3 port (rear, blue port). Plug the appliance into screen and power and turn it on. The setup will run automatically. After successful setup, the appliance shuts itself off.

Turn the appliance back on and proceed to the next step.

Connect Appliance

First System Start

Complete the setup and follow the on-screen instructions until you are directed to switch to your browser and start the setup wizard:

Start Setup Wizard

Open a browser window and go to your pascom PBX server IP address configured during the first system start. Follow the steps until you can login into the Management Interface:

Setup Mobile Acces via the Internet (optional)

This step is required should you wish to use the pascom mobile client (iOS/Android) or desktop client to access the local pascom server from “on the go” i.e. outside of the network.

• See Setup Mobile Acces via the Internet

Phone System Setup

An additionnal assistant will help you to finish setting up your phone system and add / invite further users. Proceed as follows:

• Via a browser window, login into the pascom server as an Admin
• Click on the Phone Systems and then enter a name for your phone system
• Follow the setup assistant instructions

Updated on 30 Mar 2020