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Elastix Unified Communications Server Cookbook

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Elastix Unified Communications Server Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Elastix Unified Communications Server Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Description and Use of the Most Well-known FreePBX Modules
Addon Market Module
Asterisk Essential Commands
Asterisk Gateway Interface Programming
Helpful Linux Commands
Index

Setting up day/night controls


This option provides us with the ability to change the routing of inbound calls by calling our PBX, particularly when we do not have access to the WebGUI. An example of this is when due to unforeseen circumstances, the system administrator forgets to activate the weekend or holiday IVR, or perhaps the office won't do any delivery because of bad weather. Any authorized user would dial the feature code that will make all inbound calls go to an IVR, or to an extension, or to any application.

How to do it…

The process for setting up a day/night control is shown in the next steps.

  1. We must set the feature's index.

  2. Add Description.

  3. Select the current mode. This value can be either DAY or NIGHT.

  4. Select the recording to be reproduced in DAY mode.

  5. Select the recording to be reproduced in NIGHT mode.

  6. Set a password (Optional Password).

  7. Set the destination for DAY mode.

  8. Set the destination for NIGHT mode.

These steps are shown in the next image:

How it works…

As an example, we will...