MonTel Web Reports Introduction

MonTel web reports is a PHP based server side only web base SQL reporting program, for showing call records and exception reports from the MonTel call accounting system.

MonTel Web reports display information collected by the MonTel client (specific disbursement information) and call records stored in an SQL database by SERSQLSV.EXE.

The SERSQLSV Server SQL Service should be installed and running correctly before attempting to install and use MonTel Web Reports. SERSQL is installed and configured using the same commands as ServerSV, and is supported by SVCSQL.EXE which performs the same role as SVCMAN.EXE. Make sure before installation that CallRecordDBName = "CALLREC" is set in the [ClientDB] of the PABX.INI file. You will need the latest version of MonTel (2.10.13 at the time this was written) to run SERSQLSV.EXE correctly.

Client software requirements

MonTel web reports can be viewed with Internet Explorer 6, Mozilla 1.7.1 or later, Firefox 0.9.2 or later and Opera 7.54 or later. The browser, does not require scripting or additional applets to run, and can be locked down very securely. Specifically, neither ActiveX or Java is required.

Server software requirements

A web server that can run PHP 4.3.8. PHP is open source and is available for platforms including Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Novell NetWare, OS/2, RISC OS, SGI IRIX 6.5.x and AS/400. However, MonTel Web reports have only been tested on Windows 2000 using IIS 5.0.

Windows binaries for PHP 4.3.8 is freely available form http://au2.php.net/get/php-4.3.8-Win32.zip/from/a/mirror.

The most likely configuration for MonTel web reports is PHP on Windows 2000 running IIS 5.0, as business are are more likely to be able to support this configuration . A Linux box running Apache and PHP would be a good solution for those sites that are running linux based web servers.