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Elastix Unified Communications Server Cookbook

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Elastix Unified Communications Server Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Elastix Unified Communications Server Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Description and Use of the Most Well-known FreePBX Modules
Addon Market Module
Asterisk Essential Commands
Asterisk Gateway Interface Programming
Helpful Linux Commands
Index

Provisioning extensions in a simple way


To check if our extensions are correctly configured, we will set up a softphone (a software emulation for a phone) called Zoiper that supports the IAX2 protocol. This software can be downloaded from http://www.zoiper.com/. We will also use an SIP IP phone. In this case, we will use model 6739i from Aastra.

Most of the time when configuring any IP device, we need to know the following parameters:

  • Extension Number or SIP Authorization Name or SIP User

  • Password

  • IP address or host to which our device will register SIP Port, generally port 5060 in TCP/UDP

How to do it…

  1. To configure our softphone, we will introduce the following values to the corresponding parameters or fields as follows:

    Username: 7004

    Caller ID Name: IAX2 Extension

    Caller ID Number: 7004

    Server Hostname/IP: 10.20.30.70

    Password: 1234abcd

    In other words:

  2. If the parameters were correctly input, we will see the next picture confirming that our extension is registered to the PBX and is ready to make and...