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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

Monitoring system performance


sipXecs utilizes MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher), one of the most widely used open source monitoring tools, to collect and make available historical monitoring information. Monitoring information is available in the Statistics menu item in the Diagnostics menu. The first time that you visit this menu you will need to select the server to monitor and then as shown in the following screenshot, select what system targets you would like to monitor.

Select all appropriate items with a check mark and click on the OK button to begin collecting data.

Subsequent visits to the Statistics page will display the Statistics Summary page, which displays information about all monitored items for the past 24 hours.

Clicking on any of the individual hyperlinks on the lefthand side of the page will display daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly statistics as seen in the following screenshot of the free memory statistical information:

Statistics should be reviewed periodically to...