I've been using Nagios for ages to monitor the Crossed Wires campus network, but it's fallen into a little disrepair. Nothing worse than your monitoring needing monitoring... so I set about tidying it up. Network topology changes, removal of old kit, and some fixes to service checks no longer working correctly. One of the problems … Continue reading Nagios service check for IAX
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It's been ages since I did an update on the main network machine here, and I bit the bullet over the weekend. 250+ packages emerged with surprisingly little trouble, and all I was left to do was build the updated kernel and reboot. I usually end up with something that doesn't restart after the reboot, … Continue reading Asterisk and a Patton SmartNode
In case you weren't aware, I am a VoIP nutcase. I have an Asterisk phone system at home, and all the phones in the house are VoIP of some description (either real VoIP devices or analogue handsets through an ATA). While I haven't converted to VoIP as a replacement for PSTN, I have some connectivity … Continue reading Upgrading from Cisco
I've been struggling with setting up chan_mobile on my Asterisk system. For those fortunate enough to actually get it working, chan_mobile provides an interface for Asterisk to treat a mobile phone like a PSTN or VoIP trunk--when someone calls your mobile phone it can ring your desk phone or softphone, or you can use your … Continue reading Asterisk chan_mobile fail
In part one, I described how I reconsidered device-and-user mode in FreePBX, and did the initial changeover. Read on to find out how I overcame a major issue with the configuration!I have an ISDN phone line coming into my Asterisk system. One of the indials is for our home number, the other is one I … Continue reading FreePBX device-and-user mode, part two
Buoyed by the success of a colleague I introduced to Asterisk and FreePBX a little while ago, I decided to have another look at the extension configuration mode I use on our system. Check this post for a recap of the FreePBX configuration modes and my first thoughts.Last time I looked at this I thought … Continue reading Revisiting device-and-user mode in FreePBX
Since I have a few Cisco phones around here, I've played with XML apps. I have written a timezone calculator, an LDAP phone directory lookup utility (which hooks into the "external directory" function of the phones), an app that uses Qantas' WAP interface to get flight arrival/departure information, and the obligatory RSS reader. They work, … Continue reading Cisco XML apps: things made of fail
A while back I posted about my grief with the Linksys WIP330 WiFi SIP phone (it doesn't happen often, but it's a surprise when the ONLY hit you get on Google about a problem is your own blog post discussing it). The unit is still a bitter disappointment, but thanks to a firmware update it seems … Continue reading WIP330 progress: it’s a… phone
When I first set up FreePBX, I was frustrated by the inability to create a voicemail user independently of an extension. It looked to me like an office system, where each handset was associated with an individual and had its own voicemail. In the end I created a few extensions that were not associated with handsets and … Continue reading FreePBX modes
After a hiatus that has lasted since I first cut the phone system over to Trixbox (probably a year or more), LDAP caller-ID name lookup is working again on my Asterisk system! A lot easier to maintain than the original version I implemented ages ago, too. A bit of PHP code does the trick! I'm using FreePBX … Continue reading LDAP Caller ID again!
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