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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

Checking trunk status


Trunk status can either be checked manually using various Asterisk CLI commands, or FreePBX can monitor the health of all of the trunks automatically and run a script when there is a failure.

Checking trunk status using the Asterisk CLI

Checking trunk status using the Asterisk CLI can be done from within FreePBX using the Asterisk CLI module. In order to access the CLI module, click on the Tools tab in the navigation menu and then click on the Asterisk CLI link under the System Administration heading as shown in the following screenshot:

The Asterisk CLI page will be shown as follows:

The Asterisk CLI page contains a single text box where any command that would normally be typed into the Asterisk CLI can be entered. When the Execute button is clicked, the command is run and the results are returned on screen.

Note

The commands below demonstrate two useful CLI commands for checking trunk status. The CLI can also be used to show extensions, installed codecs, a transcoding...