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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 alarms


sipXecs has an elaborate alarm server running on the system. The alarm server collects alarms in the system and sends out email notifications to system administrators. The alarm settings can be accessed via the Alarms menu item in the Diagnostics menu. The following screenshot shows the initial alarm screen:

Any number of email addresses can be entered to receive system alarms.

Clicking on the Show Advanced Settings hyperlink will allow the system administrator to specify the sending email address and enable or disable notifications for the following system alarms:

  1. 1. Emergency number dialed: Email alert of a user dialing an emergency number

  2. 2. Login failed: Failed attempt to login to PBX

  3. 3. Emergency number dialed

  4. 4. Login failed

  5. 5. Stray packets were detected by the Media Relay service

  6. 6. Failed to initialize the Media Relay

  7. 7. SipXproxy lost contact with the Media Relay

  8. 8. SipXproxy re-established connection with the Media Relay

  9. 9. SipXproxy detected a Media Relay reset but recovered...