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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

Day Night Mode


Day Night Mode targets act as simple toggle switches for a call. Each target has two predefined call targets of its own. When a call is routed to a Day Night Mode target, it will be routed to one of these two destinations depending on whether the target is in day mode or night mode. Day Night Mode targets are used to override normal call flows in FreePBX. For example, a company may route calls to their receptionist during business hours and to voicemail after hours. If the company has a half day, this would normally require FreePBX to be reconfigured to route the calls to voicemail. With a Day Night Mode target, one of the employees could dial a special feature code, force the PBX into night mode, and redirect all calls to voicemail for the rest of the day. The default feature code to toggle a Day Night Mode control is *28(index), where (index) is the feature code index assigned to the Day Night Mode control (for example, index 1 would use *281 to toggle the control). Up...