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FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions

By : Alex Robar
Book Image

FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions

By: Alex Robar

Overview of this book

FreePBX is an easy-to-use GUI that controls and manages Asterisk. It gives you pre-programmed functionality accessible through user-friendly web interfaces that allows you to have a fully functional PBX pretty much straight away with no programming. With this book it's easy to master the many features of FreePBX, which will help you to save time and money as you set up your enterprise-class network. This book will guide you through these features to install, configure, and maintain a professional PBX with plenty of examples and screenshots. By the end of this book, you will have learned to create an enterprise-class VoIP PBX that features the stability and feature set of traditional telephony systems without the hefty price tag. This book will help its readers to roll out a robust, web-based, and inexpensive yet powerful telephony solution through the GUI. By following the practical examples in this book, you will learn how to install, configure, and manage an enterprise-class PBX using open source telephony tools Asterisk and FreePBX. From here on, this book takes a closer look at the open source telephony engine software, discussing a broad range of topics from how to build and deploy an enterprise-class VoIP PBX to creating VoIP trunks using SIP, IAX2, and ZAP technologies and setting up user extensions with voicemail. FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions will introduce you to advanced options such as call routing, voicemail, and other calling features. Finally, this book will provide you with the relevant information to help you personalize and secure your PBX.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Voicemail.conf Options

Chapter 2. Module Maintenance

On its own, the core FreePBX installation is just a framework. Every function performed by FreePBX, from inbound routing to voicemail, is provided by a module that plugs into this framework. FreePBX provides more than fifty modules, each providing a specific set of functions. When administering a FreePBX system, Apache serves as a web interface for each module. The modules store their configuration in a database, which the FreePBX framework processes and then writes out to the Asterisk configuration files. The configuration files are read by Asterisk, making the configuration from the FreePBX modules live. This process is shown in the following figure:

Everything in FreePBX is a module, including the base components—Core Framework, Localizations, Asterisk Recording Interface, and Flash Operator Panel. This modularized structure is how new features are added to the system, as well as how updates are installed.

Splitting of functionality into modules also...