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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

General call recording options


FreePBX has several settings that govern the global operation of call recording. These settings determine if call recording should be globally enabled or disabled, which format to record calls in, and a command to run after a call has been recorded (if desired).

In order to access the global options, click on General Settings in the navigation menu on the left as shown in the following screenshot:

The Call Recording section has the settings that we are interested in:

The Extension Recording Override option allows all user-level automatic call recording to be disabled. A user can be set up to record all of the calls (which will be discussed shortly). If this option is set to Enabled, all of the user settings will be ignored and calls will not be recorded automatically. Note that this option neither affects recording settings for queues or conferences, which can be set up in order to record all of the calls, nor does it affect on-demand recording. This setting...