Below is an example of a macro that checks to see if the ‘holiday’ menu is enabled. I also added extension 2970, a ‘one touch’ utility to enable/disable the holiday macro. Remember to create a ‘holiday_disabled.wav’ that literally says, “Holiday menu disabled”. To rercord a message simply disable and enable the utility again. Enjoy! [...]
This tutorial describes how to configure the idle display screens on Polycom phones to subscribe to a XHTML file that reads their Agent status from Asterisk. When the phone is not in active use it displays the web page. My tutorial has three components. A specific Polycom option(found in sip.cfg) added to the configuration [...]
Queuemetrics is by far the best Call Center software Linux. My only complaint might be that Java is huge resource hog when it parses the Asterisk. ‘/var/log/asterisk/queue_log’. Luckily Loway provides an excellent PERL script called Qloader. Today we will walk through installing Queuemeteics,MySQL,and Qloader daemon. My installation instructions are basically a quick rundown of the excellent infomation [...]
This is a simple script for logging out Dynamic Agents in Asterisk. The most common use would be to logout Agents automatically each day in case they forget or are on PAUSE. Edit the “LOGGEDIN” variable below to match the correct length of digits. By default it is three, ’SIP/…’. You can add as many or [...]
I’m knee deep into writing Voice Provision .04(VP4) for VoiceIP Solutions. Why write another Asterisk GUI? Because the Trixbox and Elastix software is way to convoluted and makes customization difficult. They are not well documented and don’t attribute credit back to Asterisk or Digium. Standard Asterisk scripting and basic macro’s are easier to setup, maintain, [...]
A customer of VoiceIP Solutions sent me this useful tutorial for re-sampling Polycom Ringtones. If you have an MP3 you like, it can be re-sampled for use with a Polycom IP SIP phone! The procedure is pretty straight forward, Install Audacity with yum or your favorite package manager, re-sample the track, then edit the [...]
Recently we covered the installation of Asterisk 1.6 + Asterisk GUI 2.0. In this article we will talk about the details necessary to enable Polycom provisioning from the ‘Users’ tab of the Asterisk 2.0 GUI. By default auto-provisioning will not work out of the box. You would think when the GUI is installed that it [...]
Recent versions of Asterisk 1.6 are compatible with the Asterisk 2.0 GUI. This wasn’t always the case, as the Asterisk GUI was developed for the 1.4 branch. Although I wish Digium had gone for the LAMP model, the GUI is pretty good and getting better all the time. However the instructions to install are difficult [...]
The Digium Asterisk Appliance has built-in features for handling Polycom SIP handsets. It’s very easy to do and will save you the trouble of individually configuring the settings of each phone. I have a Digium AA50 configured with a standard dial plan and a Polycom Soundpoint IP 501. Goals of this Post: – Configure AA50 [...]
I’ve been administering Asterisk servers for many years and everyday I’m learning something new. As the size of the projects have gotten bigger, so have the demands of my customers. One common request is database integration. In the past I’ve used external AGI scripts to run database queries to return values to Asterisk. But more [...]