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Building Enterprise Ready Telephony Systems with sipXecs 4.0

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Building Enterprise Ready Telephony Systems with sipXecs 4.0

Overview of this book

Open source telephony systems are making big waves in the communications industry. Moving your organization from a lab environment to production system can seem like a daunting and inherently risky proposition. Building Enterprise Ready Telephony Systems with sipXecs delivers proven techniques for deploying reliable and robust communications systems. Building Enterprise Ready Telephony Systems with sipXecs provides a guiding hand in planning, building and migrating a corporate communications system to the open source sipXecs SIP PBX platform. Following this step-by-step guide makes normally complex tasks, such as migrating your existing communication system to VOIP and deploying phones, easy. Imagine how good you'll feel when you have a complete, enterprise ready telephony system at work in your business. Planning a communications system for any size of network can seem an overwhelmingly complicated task. Deploying a robust and reliable communications system may seem even harder. This book will start by helping you understand the nuts and bolts of a Voice over IP Telephony system. The base knowledge gained is then built upon with system design and product selection. Soon you will be able to implement, utilize and maintain a communications system with sipXecs. Many screen-shots and diagrams help to illustrate and make simple what can otherwise be a complex undertaking. It's easy to build an enterprise ready telephony system when you follow this helpful, straightforward guide.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building Enterprise-Ready Telephony Systems with sipXecs 4.0
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Glossary

System backup and restore


sipXecs has an integrated backup routine that allows the administrator to schedule system configuration and voicemail backups both to local files and to an FTP server. Additionally, the system configuration can be emailed on the same schedule.

Backup

To configure system backups, click on the System menu and select the Backup menu item. The following screenshot displays the backup options:

The following parameters are available on the backup page:

  • Backup type: There are two types of backups available, Local and FTP. Each type can have an independent automatic backup schedule. The Local backup places the configuration and voicemail backup files in the /var/sipxdata/backup subdirectory. When using Local backup, NFS (Network File System) or a similar mechanism should be used to store full backups on a different machine. When selecting the FTP backup, the Show FTP Settings button will be displayed. Clicking on the button will reveal fields to enter the FTP server, username...