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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 snapshots


Sometimes we just need to call for help from those 'in the know' about the system. These are the experts on the sipx-user or sipx-dev forums. A system snapshot provides detailed logging and configuration information in a single file that can be transmitted to developers in such a case.

The Snapshot menu item is located in the Diagnostics menu. Clicking on the menu item will display the following page:

The following settings are available before a snapshot is created:

Credentials: This setting will include account credentials (passwords) in the snapshot package. Leave it unchecked to remove configuration passwords from the snapshot. Check only if diagnosing a particular problem requires that the real credential information needs to be included.

Device Profiles: This setting will include device profile files in the snapshot package. Leave it unchecked to exclude generated profiles from the snapshot. Any passwords or other confidential information in these files will be included...