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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 PuTTY as an SSH client


For Microsoft Windows users, the program named putty.exe can be used because of its simplicity. This program can be downloaded from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html.

After installing and running PuTTY, we will see the following window:

How to do it...

  1. In the Host Name (or IP address) field, enter the IP address of our Elastix system and then click on the Open button:

  2. Then, a new screen will appear asking us to trust the secure connection:

  3. A new window will be displayed asking for the user we want to use to log in. We type root:

  4. Enter the password for the root user:

  5. Finally, we will see the Linux command console.

  6. While we are allowed to enter any command, we can also copy-paste the commands to install the packages we need to open network streams. At the end, YUM will show the result of installing the packages.

  7. To exit the terminal or PuTTY, type exit.