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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

Creating paging groups


Whenever we need to give an important message to a group of extensions in real time, we use the Paging Groups module. If our SIP telephones support a feature called auto-answer, we can use the Paging feature. This feature allows us to dial a number (as if it were an extension) and force the SIP telephones to answer the call, irrespective of whether they are being used or not, and go into the hands-free mode and play through their speaker the caller's message. The list of brands currently supported is as follows:

  • Aastra

  • Grandstream

  • Linksys/Sipura

  • Mitel

  • Polycom

  • Snom

How to do it…

  1. To add a paging group, click on the Add Paging Group link.

  2. Enter in the Paging Extension, the number to dial to activate this feature. It is highly recommended to use a number according to the current dialplan.

  3. Add a description in the Group Description field.

  4. Select the extensions we want in this group. We must hold the Ctrl key and left-click on the desired extension.

  5. Select the Force if busy option to...