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Building Enterprise Ready Telephony Systems with sipXecs 4.0
A couple of truisms that can be said about computer systems are: "All systems will fail at some point of time" and "The most secure computer is powered off, not plugged into anything, and is in a vault." As systems administrators it is our job to mitigate risk to the best of our ability and within budgetary constraints. In this chapter, we will explore the following system maintenance tasks and steps that can be taken to keep the phone system secure:
Backing up
Restoring
Monitoring
System alerts
External monitoring
Log files
Snapshots
Security
Updating
sipXecs has an integrated backup routine that allows the administrator to schedule system configuration and voicemail backups both to local files and to an FTP server. Additionally, the system configuration can be emailed on the same schedule.
To configure system backups, click on the System menu and select the Backup menu item. The following screenshot displays the backup options:...
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