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Past few days I’ve been thinking about the stuff our students were asking during our FreePBX training course. One of the main thing that they were talking about is security and how “bad” Asterisk’s reputation has been with security in the past. I must agree … “The FreePBX and Asterisk Basic Security Checklist”
Read MoreI found this link that explained how to set maximum time for ALL calls or just OUTBOUND calls using FreePBX. Thanks to this link/user: http://www.trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/help/how-do-i-limit-call-length-or-call-duration/eihoward Go to FreePBX General Setting. You will find two Dialing Options: To set limits on ALL calls, modify the “Asterisk … “Limiting all or just outbound calls time using FreePBX”
Read MoreI saw an update today on FreePBX 2.10 page that included an online fix to support the new Asterisk 10 conference bridge module called ConfBridge. Previously, all FreePBX past versions, it had always use the meetme conferencing application on Asterisk, which had some limitations as … “Asterisk 10’s Confbridge– Extend your existing PBX to support multiparty video and audio conferences with Asterisk10+FreePBX 2.10”
Read More[UPDATE: WORKS FLAWLESSLY WITH ASTERISK 11 TOO…On Asterisk 11, you can choose XMPP as well as the protocol, right now its just SIP:, imagine the possibilities. Also fixed the issue when failed message] [ANOTHER UPDATE FOR Offline message – We all know when devices are … “Asterisk 10 (1.10) SMS (messaging or SIP Messaging) in action”
Read MoreTechDayAsia | TechDayAsia on Facebook During TechDay Asia 2012 (in Kuala Lumpur), i presented about Asterisk but more on a business pitch. The idea of the presentation is to let people know about how to start using Asterisk in various ways without changing much from the current … “TechDay Asia – My Slides”
Read MoreImage Source: http://appcrawlr.com/android-apps/best-apps-restrict-access So, we had this challenge by our customer to do this as they are using PRI and supporting multiple customers. Each customer needs to be limited to n number of channels on PRI. When they were using analog that was simply straightforward, … “Asterisk / FreePBX limit incoming calls based on DID (on ZAP/Dahdi/SIP) with FreePBX”
Read MoreSo I visited grandma couple of days back and while talking about work and politics and all, she asked, so what’s this Nagios thing you guys are experts at? I replied, its an “Enterprise Monitoring Solution” and she went like “Enterprise what now….”, and that … “How to explain Nagios to grandma”
Read MoreWe had to create a plugin to basically do the following 1) Do a typical traceroute from the Nagios box to a destination IP 2) Instead of calculating the time between the Nagios to Destination Host, we are interested to know the time between two … “Nagios Plugin–Advance Traceroute to check between two devices”
Read MoreThis is to show you how to enable pfSense 2.x and use TMNet’s Unifi. Important to note that inorder to “dial” into Unifi, you must fire the PPPoE through a VLAN and those are VLAN 500 for your regular internet browsing and VLAN 600 for … “pfSense and TM Unifi”
Read MoreCall files are perhaps one of the coolest things you can do with Asterisk. Just literally dump the file in a particular directory and voila, you can make a call. Past few days, I’ve been playing around with it quite a bit and would like … “Using Asterisk call files with FreePBX (using Local channel)”
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