Ivan Demkovitch
2016-Jul-04 01:37 UTC
[asterisk-users] Please help me understand lines and extensions little better
Hello, Probably obvious to most of you but I?m still learning VOIP concept(and telephony inside organization in general) I have bunch of unrelated questions on my mind :) - I picked SPA504G phones as ?phone to go? for our small company. They are cheap and available. Any pros/cons you can come up with against this device? I setup direct extensions in Asterisk, they work great. But under conference settings - I have to set which SIP devices participate. It just sends calls to those devices and they come in as main extension. It?s not super-convenient. Main problem is - I want to know if user came from SALES/SUPPORT or DIRECT line. -Now I?m getting more into phone setup little more and I think I?m not doing it right. Current on a phone I setup only 1 extensions with SIP ID/Password and then I assign this extension 1 to all 4 ?Line keys? I understand this is how I can switch between calls. Let?s say one call comes in - I can be on call and next call comes in - I can press ?Line 2? button and pickup. Correct? So, now I got idea about Line key 3 & 4. If my main SIP ID XXX I can set 2 more id?s: XXX_SLS XXX_SPT Then I can register them under ext 3/4 on a phone and set line keys to ext 3/4 Of course, I will add XXX_SLS and XXX_SPT under appropriate queues.conf This way I will setup more extensions but users will have much better visibility of who?s calling. Is this correct/common approach? Just trying to understand what is the best way to setup phones/extensions..