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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

Updating modules from the online repository


The usual installation method for new modules or system updates for FreePBX comes from the FreePBX module repository. The module repository is hosted by FreePBX's partners and sponsors. Access to the repository is free.

Note

The following instructions walk through the process of updating modules. As with any system update, there is always the possibility of negative consequences when an update is applied. It is a good idea to back up the system prior to installing updates (please see Chapter 10, System Protection, Backup and Restoration for information on backup). Note that the built-in FreePBX backup software will not be available after a fresh installation. However, it is not required as there is no configuration that needs to be backed up yet.

From a fresh installation of FreePBX, only the core set of modules will be installed, but they may require updates prior to proceeding with any further configuration. To go from a fresh installation to a...