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FreeSWITCH 1.0.6

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FreeSWITCH 1.0.6

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 skills.This book comes to your rescue, helping you to set up a telephony system fast and easily using FreeSWITCH. It will take you from being a novice to creating a fully-functional telephony system of your own. It is rich with practical examples and will give you all of the information and skills needed to implement your own PBX system.The book begins by introducing the architecture and working of FreeSWITCH before detailing how to plan a telephone system and moving 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.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
FreeSWITCH 1.0.6
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface
The History Of FreeSWITCH
Index

FreeSWITCH event system commands


The following is a list of commands available for use from any event-based utility you use to connect to FreeSWITCH. You can use these commands from ESL (the FreeSWITCH Event Socket Library), via mod_event_socket and via any other standard interface that FreeSWITCH provides for accessing the event system. The syntax is the same from one access method to the next, although there may be variations in formatting and encoding, introduced by individual modules.

auth <password>

When you first connect to the FreeSWITCH event system via the mod_event_socket module, you must authenticate. This command allows you to pass your authentication parameters.

auth ClueCon

api

The api command allows any command to be sent, that would otherwise be accessible via the FreeSWITCH command-line interface. This executes the corresponding command in blocking mode, which means that the control will not return to the open event socket and no other commands will be allowed to execute...