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FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions

By : Alex Robar
Book Image

FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions

By: Alex Robar

Overview of this book

FreePBX is an easy-to-use GUI that controls and manages Asterisk. It gives you pre-programmed functionality accessible through user-friendly web interfaces that allows you to have a fully functional PBX pretty much straight away with no programming. With this book it's easy to master the many features of FreePBX, which will help you to save time and money as you set up your enterprise-class network. This book will guide you through these features to install, configure, and maintain a professional PBX with plenty of examples and screenshots. By the end of this book, you will have learned to create an enterprise-class VoIP PBX that features the stability and feature set of traditional telephony systems without the hefty price tag. This book will help its readers to roll out a robust, web-based, and inexpensive yet powerful telephony solution through the GUI. By following the practical examples in this book, you will learn how to install, configure, and manage an enterprise-class PBX using open source telephony tools Asterisk and FreePBX. From here on, this book takes a closer look at the open source telephony engine software, discussing a broad range of topics from how to build and deploy an enterprise-class VoIP PBX to creating VoIP trunks using SIP, IAX2, and ZAP technologies and setting up user extensions with voicemail. FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions will introduce you to advanced options such as call routing, voicemail, and other calling features. Finally, this book will provide you with the relevant information to help you personalize and secure your PBX.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Voicemail.conf Options

Backups


FreePBX allows a system backup of voicemails, system recordings, system configuration, CDRs, and Operator Panel configuration to be taken. Backups can be taken on a one-off basis, or a scheduled basis.

Backing up voicemail will back up all the voicemail messages and outgoing voicemail greetings for all the users configured on the system. If this is not backed up, then all the users will have to re-record their greetings, and they will be unable to retrieve historical voicemails which were received before the failure.

Backing up system recordings will back up all the voice prompts and custom music on hold recordings. Without this backup, prompts for IVRs, follow-me, queues, and music on hold recordings will all have to be re-recorded or reuploaded after a system failure.

Backing up system configuration will back up all the configuration data. This includes all of the configuration data for trunks, users, devices, IVRs, queues, time conditions—pretty much all the configuration data...