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I have a working dialplan for our phone system with Mon-Fri, business hours identification, etc. But what I'm lacking right now is support for company holiday dates. What I'd like to do is to create a database of these dates and just update them as new years rollover. I suspect others have done this sort of thing with Asterisk before, but I've not found any resources so far.

We have added Asterisk to a line of 'mission critical' servers at our business, and being in the web application development business one of the core things we do is to monitor web server availability. I'd like to add Asterisk to the servers that our monitoring systems are handling, and also that our SIP trunk provider has our Asterisk system correctly registered at all times.

I am running Asterisk 1.4.2 and recently we changed the SIP provider of our main incoming DID number. The new provider prefixes all CallerID records with a +1 in front of the number, whereas the previous SIP provider did not. Consequently now all my blacklisted numbers aren't matching in my Dialplan, so I'm getting tele-spammed. Is there a way that I can work with the blacklist

I am not finding anything relating to this on Google, so I thought I'd pose the question here... I am running Asterisk 1.4 on a CentOS 5 Linux box. I needed to use a custom built PHP5.2.10 install to interconnect with our Firebird SQL database, which I've done. But I noticed that the default install path for PHP5 on this box appears to be /usr/local/bin/php rather than the path

I have an Asterisk 1.4.2 system installed at our office, and have a few 'on the road' sales people that want to make calls from their cell phones in transit, but they are complaining that people returning calls that they make from their cell phones are simply just using the CID that is coming from the cell phone which is causing them to get phone calls outside of business hours. What

I have an Asterisk 1.4.2 system that has been installed for about 3 months now in our home. We converted all of our phones to SIP phones, and use two different trunk providers (BroadVoice for incoming & FlowRoute for outgoing). Most of the time its working flawlessly. But about 1/3rd of the calls that come into us complain of an echo and what is best described as latency issues. Its

I'm trying to use func_odbc to write to a MS SQL db. Here's my func_odbc conf: [OPTIN] dsn=MSSQL-Optin write=INSERT into OptIn (orgID) values (${VAL1}) Dial Plan exten => +18665551212,n,Set(ODBC_OPTIN()=dave) When I do an odbc show, it shows that I am connected to the db. If I use isql, I can write to the db, however, when I use func_odbc, a record will not write. I'm using

I'm pretty new to this whole Asterisk system & VoIP thing, but being a programmer by trade the complexity didn't scare me off (at least not yet)... I have setup an Asterisk system for my home & home office. My wife & I run two separate businesses from home, and we have a general family home phone line as well. The cost of all these lines with analog carriers was getting

I have an Asterisk system setup for our small business, and its working well. I posted to the list about a week or so ago, regarding having it handle direct extension dialing, and unfortunately I'm not any closer to solving this issue, so I was hoping someone might have a working example of how to set this up they could point me towards. Basically I have everything EXCEPT direct

I am trying to implement a change to our Dialplan that will thwart tele-spammers that are calling us with blanked out caller ID. The caller IDs seem to vary between originating callers when they block caller ID. I've seen the following: "anonymous" "" So I'm checking for these. However recently one company seems to be bypassing this, so what I wanted to do was

Hi For a customer, I am trying to setup 3 different companies on one asterisk box, and I need to assign extension 200 in three different companies. I was using different contexts, but was unable to get it to work. So, my basic question is - In Asterisk, Can we have same extension number in different contexts? For example: [Context_company_1] exten => 200,1,,,

Is there a simple command in the CLI or other for Asterisk 1.4.2 where I can list all numbers in the blacklist database? I need to export this data to another database, but am unsure how to get to it all in a list. Thanks in advance for any pointers. Myles -- ----------------------------- Myles Wakeham Director of Engineering Tech Solutions USA, Inc. www.techsolusa.com Phone +1-480-451-7440

Hi Folks I have had a look through the Features list, and I see that the system does support an auto attendant, however is it possible to have say 5 telephone numbers that a person would dial and have 5 different messages I.e Dial 555-1121 and you get a message for companyA call centre Dial 555-1131 and you get a message for companyB call centre Dial 555-1141 and you get a message for companyC

If I have a global variable in my dialplan and I change it, does that change immediately take affect for all calls that are active? Here is my situation. The company I work for has two office groups that share a building. The two offices are separate companies but support one another and want to be able to transfer calls as if they were all on the same phone system. Each company has 4

We are running our * server as a virtual PBX for 6 companies. I am having all of the Allison prompts plus our own custom IVR prompts being re-recorded for each company, in a different voice (marketing thing) with a different personality (perky, corporate, earthy) . I'm curious if someone could point out a dirty trick to get the voice to play right, for internal and external callers,

Greetings, I need if possibile an explanation on how to manage the incoming callerid for an incoming call. Let me explain the situation: We have two different companies in this office that shares the same PBX (* box). Each company have its own number for the incoming calls. What i'd like to implement is something that, depending on the incoming line that is involved in the call, plays a

I have an Asterisk 1.4.2 server with 3 different SIP providers and Asterisk for Skype gateway installed. Periodically the SIP providers go offline for some reason, or the Skype connection fails. When this happens, I lose my SIP registration to the provider. Unfortunately I don't know this has happened until someone eventually contacts me to say, "I tried to call you but it

Hi all, I'm trying to get my head around our Asterisk network configuration. We've been using it for about 2 years now (home office) and it works great. Its Asterisk 1.4.2 with SIP through external provider(s). We have the Asterisk server behind our IPCop firewall, and have a dedicated IP address that comes to the firewall from our ISP (Cox) and that is routed to our Asterisk box

Hi, My customer has a outdated firewall that is also presenting a NAT nightmare for getting the Asterisk server reachable from the internet. What firewalls work good with VOIP? I really want to steer away from any ALG supported firewall. I just want a good firewall that works well with Asterisk. Thanks, David Wathen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed...

I've got a need to do something like the following: [foo-context] exten => _.,1,SetCIDNum(123) exten => _.,2,SetCIDName(XYZ) include => local include => tollfree But of course, this example won't work. The goal here is this: if a call ends up being handled by the "local" or "tollfree" contexts, I want those SetCID*** commands executed. Otherwise, I