Lets face it, some of us may have had our share of FreePBX/Asterisk compromises and abusers almost always use the facility to make international calls to exotic numbers. The bill at the end of the month is already too late and there’s significant monetary damage. … “Asterisk or FreePBX call alert script (e.g. for sudden spike in international calls) that runs independently or via Nagios (Nagios compatible)”

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Why Speex? It works like SILK but, see item 2. Its an old codec thus supported by lots of phones as opposed to SILK Environments (of course, improvise and modify for your respective OSes, it can run too far away from these) Debian 6 32bit … “Asterisk/FreePBX Setting up and enabling Speex codec.”

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Wikipedia on SILK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SILKThis guide takes you through the setup of SILK codec with Asterisk 11. It also can be used to setup Asterisk 10.While it should work for other environments, this particular guide was written for1) Debian 2) Working Asterisk 11 (try this article … “Setting up SILK Codec with Asterisk 10/11”

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This dialplan is to show how you can use the applicationmap feature in Asterisk to have an inband interruption during a call and force the caller (the other party) to hear something irritating like the word “listen” for 11 times while you listen to soothing … “Play listen 11 times on Asterisk to irritate caller..”

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Article revision: 3If you read and tried my post here, you would have probably got the AstSMS working. It is important to get that part working first then read the rest of this article. This article enhances that dialplan to add offline sending of SIP … “Asterisk 10 or 11 Messaging (SMS/SIP Messaging) with offline message sending”

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Hi guys, developed this simple bash script that will enable and disable IPTABLES based firewall targeted to mainly Asterisk with FreePBX users. NOTE: This is a basic firewall, feel free to fine tune as much as you want. IT may erase existing FW/IPTABLES rules you … “A basic IPTables (firewall) for just about anyone using Asterisk and FreePBX”

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Hi guys, had encountered an issue with Asternic and FreePBX’s latest Queue module which I noticed was version 2.10.07. Since I updated, the guide and .diff file provided by Asternic doesn’t work. So I had to do some hacks to get it sorted. I guess … “Asternic (2.0 earlier/later) and latest FreePBX 2.10 (or even 2.11) recording/playback via the GUI doesn’t show anymore after upgrading FBX or a new updated installation of FBX”

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Something weird with Asterisk 11 and portGo that drove me nuts and finally figured the damn thing out. So here’s my issue, when I use Asterisk 11 and port go, calls signaling can work but as soon as audio is to be transmitted, it hang … “PortGo SIP softphone with Asterisk 11”

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Hi guys, firstly wishing everyone a Merry Christmas…This would probably be my last posting here on technical matters for 2012. Lets usher in 2013 with some cool new FreePBX 2.11 CEL support. In this guide, I will try to help you setup CEL which is … “Setting up Channel Event Logging (CEL) on Asterisk 1.8 or up with MySQL and using FreePBX 2.11’s new CDR module to list em’”

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Here’s some slides to share with you on NagiosXI …   What is Nagios XI and how is it different from Nagios Core from sanjayws

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