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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

Using the SSH protocol


Perhaps, it is be hard to type some commands in the console by using the keyboard and the monitor attached to the server. A quick way to solve this is to use the console remotely with the help of the Secure Shell protocol.

How to do it…

  1. For users with the Linux operating system or a MAC, this can be done through the terminal or terminal emulator application. In this case, we issue the following command in the Linux shell: ssh root@ip-address-of-elastix-server.

  2. We will get the response Password, and then enter the password for the user root. If the password is correct, we will see the console's prompt that allows us to enter commands. The following images show the process for using the ssh (Secure Shell) command to access remotely (via IP protocol) the operating system's console.

  3. One of the advantages of using the terminal is that we can copy and paste commands to the console. So, we copy the commands mentioned in the Using Internet audio streams section and we can see...