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 [...]
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, [...]
Hello all. It’s been a few weeks since I posted… I’ve been teaching myself PHP to create a web interface for a Asterisk based project I’m working on. My goal is to create a LAMP(Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) web managment tool for creating calling cards for use with Asterisk. The project is called ACCWA(pronounced aqua), [...]
This script removes every *.wav file older then one minute in the directory it is executed. This script is very useful and can be used with the cron daemon for regular file removal. #!/bin/bash # find ./*.wav -type f -mmin +1 -exec rm {} \; Also we can adjust this for days rather than minutes [...]
I just upgraded to a ATI HD 4870(w/ 1 Gig DDR 5!). I read some rave reviews about the 4800 series cards and heard via the grapevine that ATI had much improved Linux support. However, I was disappointed to find out that the catalyst 9.6 driver will not build with Fedora 11′s stock 2.6.29 kernel. [...]
A few weeks back I covered connecting ODBC to MS-SQL, but today we are going to do the same thing with MySQL. The process is very similar. One might ask, why use ODBC driver in the first place? The reason is simple, there are many flavors of SQL and the ODBC driver allows one standard [...]
Scripting is very, very useful. Don’t make the same mistake I did and wait 5 years into you career to start learning! In the example below, I’m using the ‘ps -aux’ command piped into grep to determine if a process is still running. for my example I’m using Firefox, but intend to use this with [...]
Last week at work(VoiceIP Solutions) I did some research for Asterisk PBX integration with Microsoft CRM. The customer likes open source Asterisk because of the cost savings, but they requires screen pop-ups, and click to dial from their Customer Relationship Management software. So while my manager worked on the TAPI middleware, I was charged with [...]
Syslog & Rsyslog are the mainstay tools of event logging. Every standard UNIX/Linux based Operating System comes with some version. Asterisk logging capabilities allow for some or all events to be sent to syslogd for post processing; (that is) to store in a SQL database or for sending logs to a remote syslog server. If [...]
NOTE: I myself am a novice with BASH. I hate scripting, but hey, it’s necessary part of most sysadmin jobs. I came across several hurdles (like changing a name and adding a time stamp in the same loop). I hope this document helps. Please click on my adds, they help pay for the hosting. Thanks [...]