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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

Installing new modules from the online repository


FreePBX provides more than fifty installable modules that can add new features or functionality to our PBX. Installing modules from the online repository follows a very similar process to updating modules from the online repository.

  1. 1. From any page within the FreePBX interface, click on the Module Admin link in the menu on the left. The Module Admin link is present on both the Setup and Tools tabs.

  2. 2. From the module administration page, click on the Check for updates online link. FreePBX will compare the list of currently installed modules (and their versions) against the latest list of available modules in the online repository. We should be presented with a list of all available modules as follows:

  3. 3. Modules that are not installed will state Not installed (Available online) in blue text, as shown in the previous screenshot. Currently installed modules should say Enabled and up to date in grey text. Check all of the modules for their...