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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

Appendix B. Feature Codes

With all modules installed, FreePBX has more than 45 feature codes that users can dial to toggle features or run applications. Feature codes can be customized from the Feature Code Admin page (they can be located by clicking on the Feature Codes option under the Basic menu in the FreePBX interface). The default feature codes and their actions are listed as follows:

Blacklist

Feature code

Default

Action

Blacklist a number

*30

Prompts the user to enter a telephone number. The entered number is then added to the user's blacklist. Inbound calls will not ring an extension if they are on that extension's blacklist. Blacklisted callers will be told that the number they dialed is no longer in service.

Blacklist the last caller

*32

Adds the last number that called the user to the blacklist.

Remove a number from the blacklist

*31

Prompts the user to enter a telephone number. The entered number is removed from the user's blacklist.