Often in A2billing wholesale setup one might find that A2Billing starts billing for calls too early (before the call is answered). Another frequently asked question is “fake ring”. Let’s go through each of issues. Be sociable 🙂 Share!
Tag: Asterisk
Feb 28 2019
FreePBX error gui_hidden has a deprecated constructor
Having fresh manual installation of FreePBX 14 on CentOS 7 and when access GUI for the first time it throws the following error: Methods with the same name as their class will not be constructors in a future version of PHP; gui_hidden has a deprecated constructor. In Apache’s error log file I found the following: …
Jul 02 2018
Asterisk Phone Inventory / Useragent List
I need to find out whether all Cisco phones in organization use the latest firmware. As SPA series phones show firmware version in “Useragent” string it would be great to display all useragents in Asterisk. In order to get this string from all Asterisk peers we need to go through each peer and display the …
Mar 16 2018
A2billing Install Guide
This guide will show you how to install A2Billing v2.2 on CentOS v7. It is assumed that you already have Asterisk and/or Freepbx installed (if not – install it first using this guide). It is also assumed that you have compiled Asterisk Realtime driver module (res_config_mysql) by selecting it in Asterisk Menuselect before compiling Asterisk. …
Mar 15 2018
Asterisk Freepbx Install Guide
This guide covers Asterisk installation from source on CentOS 7. Freepbx 13 with Asterisk 13 will be installed on CentOS 7. You have to do the installation as root user or with sudo. Be sociable 🙂 Share!
Mar 05 2018
Asterisk packages installation on CentOS 7
Officially now Asterisk packages repository is gone. Asterisk installation manual gone as well. If you use Asterisk on CentOS or RHEL, you want to be using RPM packages, not messing around with building source tarballs on each of the machines you maintain. I use Asterisk on CentOS, both on CentOS 6 and more recently on …
Nov 15 2017
Fail2ban installation and configuration on CentOS
In this article I’ll describe how to protect Asterisk from hacking attempts with Fail2ban in CentOS Linux. Fail2Ban is a standard Linux tool used to scan log files and then block IP’s found in those log files using iptables. Fail2ban depends completely on the application (in this case Asterisk) to detect any intrusion/failure and log …
Nov 11 2017
How to generate a FAX compatible multi-page TIFF from a PDF
This is an excellent question, as a reliable answer is amazingly hard to find on the Internet. Most advice works for some PDF files, but not for others. The following commands appear to work OK for any PDF file. If you can find PDF files for which these commands fail, please report this. Ghostscript is …
Oct 27 2017
Asterisk dynamic routing with MySQL database
For the next task we will need Asterisk dynamic routing using MySQL: some company has technical department that should provide emergency services on non-working hours. Based on time and date conditions, a call should be routed to a shared department’s extension (technicians) or be sent to a man on duty on non-working time and weekends. …
Oct 27 2017
Asterisk Function ODBC cannot be read
While trying to execute ODBC function in Asterisk dialplan error is thrown: [Oct 27 14:20:21] ERROR[4601]: pbx.c:3380 ast_func_read: Function ODBC_INSERT cannot be read — Executing [XXXXXXXXX@internal:5] Set(“SIP/out-0000001a”, “ins=”) in new stack func_odbc.conf looks like this:
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[UPDATE] dsn=asterisk writesql = UPDATE dutylist SET lastcaller ='${SQL_ESC(${ARG1})}' |
and my extensions.conf is:
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exten=>_X.,n,Set(ins=${ODBC_UPDATE(${CALLERID(num)})}) |
All variables are correct, ODBC is also configured correctly (read from DB statements work). …
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