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FreeSWITCH 1.2 - Second Edition

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FreeSWITCH 1.2 - Second Edition

Overview of this book

FreeSWITCH is an open source telephony platform designed to facilitate the creation of voice and chat-driven products, scaling from a soft-phone to a PBX and even up to an enterprise-class soft-switch. It is always exciting to design and build your own telephony system to suit your needs, but the task is time-consuming and involves a lot of technical skill."FreeSWITCH 1.2" comes to your rescue to help you set up a telephony system quickly and securely using FreeSWITCH. It is rich with practical examples and will give you all of the information and skills needed to implement your own PBX system.You will start with a detailed description of the FreeSWITCH system architecture. Thereafter you will receive step-by-step instructions on how to set up basic and advanced features for your telephony platform.The book begins by introducing the architecture and workings of FreeSWITCH before detailing how to plan a telephone system and then moves on to the installation, configuration, and management of a feature-packed PBX. You will learn about maintaining a user directory, XML dial plan, and advanced dial plan concepts, call routing, and the extremely powerful Event Socket. You will finally learn about the online community and history of FreeSWITCH."FreeSWITCH 1.2" is an indispensable tool for novice and expert alike.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
FreeSWITCH 1.2
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding a user


Adding one or more users is a simple two-step process, which is as follows:

  1. Create a new XML file for the user, usually by copying an existing file.

  2. Modify the Local_Extension Dialplan entry.

In this example, we will create a new user for a person named Gwen and a username of 1100. Perform the following steps:

  1. Open a terminal window, and change the directory to conf/directory/default.

  2. Make a copy of 1000.xml and name it 1100.xml. A Linux/Unix session looks as follows:

    #>cd /usr/local/freeswitch/conf/directory/default
    #>cp 1000.xml 1100.xml
  3. Open 1100.xml in an editor and make the following changes:

    • Replace all occurrences of 1000 with 1100

    • Change the value of effective_caller_id_name to Gwen

  4. The new file should look as follows:

    <include>
      <user id="1100">
        <params>
          <param name="password" value="$${default_password}"/>
          <param name="vm-password" value="1100"/>
        </params>
        <variables>
          <variable name="toll_allow...