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Queues consist of Incoming calls being placed in the queue Members that answer the queue (extensions or users that login as agents) A strategy for how to handle the queue and divide calls between members Music played while…

Synopsis: Unpauses a queue member Description: UnpauseQueueMember([queuename]|agent[|options]): Unpauses an agent on a queue, i.e. the agent goes back to answering calls. If no queue is given, agent is unpaused on all queues. The option string may contain zero…

A channel bank converts a group of FXS or FXO interfaces to a T1 or higher speed interface. There are now a few channel banks that will convert to an Ethernet interface instead of T1. What to consider…

Asterisk consultants: The Netherlands Add your entry here (Alphabetical order by country and company): This page is growing large. Please don’t post logos!! aPeer Het werkterrein van aPeer is uitsluitend Asterisk / Freepbx implementaties. 8 jaar ervaring met…

Status 2009-08-21 Asterisk on a FreeBSD server Asterisk compiles and runs on a FreeBSD systems. FreeBSD support has been maturing since the spring of 2004. If you are a first time user of Asterisk on FreeBSD it is…

Action: Originate Parameters: Channel: Channel on which to originate the call (The same as you specify in the Dial application command) Context: Context to use on connect (must use Exten & Priority with it) Exten: Extension to use…

Tone Indications Configuration: indications.conf The Playtones command can generate tones to indicate busy, ringing, congestion, dialtone, and similar. The indications.conf file defines the exact specifications of these tones. The sample indications.conf file installed with Asterisk has tone definitions…

Asterisk-Java The Asterisk-Java package consists of a set of Java classes that allow you to easily build Java applications that interact with an Asterisk PBX Server. Asterisk-Java supports both interfaces that Asterisk provides for this scenario: The FastAGI…

Hangupcause is the latest PRI hangup return code on an Asterisk ZAP channels channel connected to a PRI interface. Note that this also works on SIP channels, maybe other channels as well. Tip: The packet isdnutils contains a…

The Asterisk CVS distribution includes a wide range of sound files, listed below and at Digium. In addition, there’s an additional set of sound files, managed by John Todd. News April 14th 2015: High Quality voice Prompts in…

Configuration file for Asterisk SIP channels, for both inbound and outbound calls. Starting with Asterisk v1.2.0: The global option “port” in 1.0.X that is used to set which port to bind to has been changed to “bindport” to…

Priority for emergency calls This extension for 911 tries to dial out. If no channel is available on the Zap interface, one call is terminated, we wait one second and then dial out on the line. exten =>…

extconfig.conf Setup Add the following line, swapping your own personal values if you wish: extensions => mysql,asterisk,extensions_table You can change mysql to odbc if you want to use odbc. You can change asterisk to be the name of…

Asterisk CDR with almost any database There is a module called cdr_odbc that supports the unixODBC library. ODBC is a standard interface between an application and a database. The unixODBC library supports many databases, from Mysql and MS…