I was at the office today and had to create more than 150 hosts and to create it one by one even with a text editor or WUIs, it can be very taxing. So being the lazy guy that i am, i created this script … “Nagios Bulk Host Creator (and other bulk operations, if you wish) straight into nagios format”

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Over the past two weekends, I’ve dwelled in some not-so-light weighted testing of the spanking new Asterisk 1. 8 PBX. While honestly, there’s not a world of improvements from its already awesome predecessors but heck, its technically only a minor version update from the powerhouses … “Unified Communications?– Use Google and Asterisk!”

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The Asterisk Calendaring API aims to be a generic interface for integrating Asterisk with various calendaring technologies. The goal is to be able to support reading and writing of calendar events as well as allowing notification of pending events through the Asterisk dialplan. There are … “Asterisk 1.8 Calendaring with text to speech reading out your calendar info”

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When Asterisk 1.8 was released, it had a perfect integration with Google Voice @voice.google.com service. Sometime in the 4th week of November, this broke and Gtalk worked (calling other google accounts) but calling Google Voice (e.g calling to US numbers for Free), didn’t. I just … “Google Voice on Asterisk 1.8 bug is now fixed!”

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Here’s’ a script that moves or copies certain files (in my case Asterisk recordings) of anything above a certain date (as defined in the CLI) to a destination you pick. You must first define the sourcepath, sourcefilename, destination and an option to flag move or … “Asterisk Script for Recordings to Move or Copy -n- number of days old (an archiving tool if you may)”

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Some may have problems loading FreePBX that takes a few minutes esp with larger number of extensions. This is actually addressed in this article in FreePBX.org http://www.freepbx.org/trac/ticket/4435 but if you just want to fix it and don’t read all the stories there, read on. NOTE: … “FreePBX slow “Apply Configuration””

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If you need to send the proper calling party’s caller ID to a phone when using GoogleTalk, follow the below dialplan. Without any setting, the caller number is set to UNKNOWN and only the CALLERID(name) field is sent with something like [email protected]/Talk.v10471914EB6E. So we tweak … “Asterisk 1.8 Google Talk Inbound Caller ID (CallerID)”

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Google Voice Talk on Asterisk 1.8 (with FreePBX) and a flexible dialplan [Updated 12-04-2012] Ok so you’ve got a 1.4 or 1.6 Asterisk with FreePBX running somewhere? Now you wish to use GoogleVoice/Talk with Asterisk 1.8. Here’s how. This guide is more for a Debian … “Google Voice Talk on Asterisk 1.8 (with FreePBX) and a flexible dialplan”

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UPDATE: Starting with version 0.8.8, the unban operations are now built-in, it is executed through the fail2ban-client app like this # fail2ban-client set [ban-name] unbanip [ip] # e.g. fail2ban-client set asterisk-iptables unbanip 8.8.8. Check out the changelog here. Get version 0.8.8 here.  You really should … “Fail2ban Manual Unban Single Host (for iptables)”

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Newer firmware of Yealink IP phones allows you to perform searches within the “Remote Directory” setup screen. Instead of just having a static file, users can search just about any parts of the name field and voila, the results are shown on the display.Here, we … “Yealink IP Phone corporate directory integrated into FreePBX”

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