Re: [sipx-users] Paging server performance

2009-12-21 Thread Picher, Michael
Too bad... phone paging just isn't reliable for getting important messages out. It can't properly handle open areas, you can't hear it when you're on the phone, etc. They'll spend the $ when something bad happens and everybody doesn't get the message. Funny how disasters free up spending magica

Re: [sipx-users] Location based DNS SRV records

2009-12-21 Thread Picher, Michael
Josh, What happens with this DNS setup if the DNS server is down at one of the sites? The phones would be configured with the DNS servers from the other sites I would imagine but how does the 'match' effect what they are returned for DNS values? Thanks, Mike -Original Message- F

Re: [sipx-users] Is a user able to diable VM himself? - Featurerequest for this purpose.

2009-12-21 Thread Todd Hodgen
Luckily, there is an unlimited supply of extension on the PBX. Can’t beat the price either. From: Picher, Michael [mailto:mpic...@cmctechgroup.com] Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 11:44 PM To: Todd Hodgen; Rene Pankratz Cc: sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org Subject: RE: [sipx-users] Is a user ab

Re: [sipx-users] Is a user able to diable VM himself? - Featurerequest for this purpose.

2009-12-21 Thread Picher, Michael
That might work... for polycom phones you could register that second line to the phone as well and then the voicemail light will work. Mike From: Todd Hodgen [mailto:thod...@verizon.net] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 2:39 AM To: Picher, Michael; 'Rene Pankratz' Cc: sipx-users@list.sip

Re: [sipx-users] Is a user able to diable VM himself? - Featurerequest for this purpose.

2009-12-21 Thread Todd Hodgen
How about a workaround. Assign a secondary extension with each user, and give it a voicemail box. Then when they want to have the voicemail enabled, they can simply go to the portal, and forward their extension to the extension with the voicemail box. I’ve not tried this, but if you forward a

Re: [sipx-users] Is a user able to diable VM himself? - Featurerequest for this purpose.

2009-12-21 Thread Picher, Michael
Rene, So, the answer is "No, it is not an option now." If it's something you'd like then you should probably create a feature request. Right now only the Admin can enable / disable VM. Mike From: sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org [mailto:sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org]

Re: [sipx-users] Is a user able to diable VM himself? - Feature request for this purpose.

2009-12-21 Thread Rene Pankratz
Well, I agree with your considerations about business systems and the problems if any user would be able to control these features. My problem is, if you buy a simple answering machine, then this machine will have a button to enable/disable it. And if you spent some more money you will also be abl

Re: [sipx-users] Location based DNS SRV records

2009-12-21 Thread Picher, Michael
Nicely done Josh. The location based gateways also make all of that work properly. Back before location based gateways I had a trick for using multiple DNS servers and creating 'phantom' gateways that allowed me to use the same gateway names in the dial plan but resolve those gateway names to dif

Re: [sipx-users] FW: Sip Trunk with Skype -- Success

2009-12-21 Thread Picher, Michael
I too tested Skype under the beta program with sipXecs and it was easy breezy... Mike -Original Message- From: sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org [mailto:sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org] On Behalf Of M. Ranganathan Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 1:46 AM To: he...@tcd.ie Cc:

Re: [sipx-users] Connect two SipXecs systems together.

2009-12-21 Thread Todd Hodgen
Under system/dial plan/ site to site, you would have the 4 + 3 digits, and then "" and suffix. That will give the resulting call over the trunk group a digits dialed of the 3 digits. But, under Devices/Gateways/unmanaged Gateway there is another section for dialplan. On that screen, at the top,

Re: [sipx-users] Connect two SipXecs systems together.

2009-12-21 Thread Picher, Michael
If you are behind NAT at both locations use sipXbridge to do this. See the 1 line table below the table of ITSP's in the WIKI in the section titled 'Required Parameters for dialing another sipXecs system'. http://sipx-wiki.calivia.com/index.php/SipXbridge_Overview_and_Configura tion Mike

Re: [sipx-users] FW: Sip Trunk with Skype -- Success

2009-12-21 Thread M. Ranganathan
2009/12/22 Sen Heng : > > Hi Rangn, > > Could you help with Skype-SIP trunk please. Dim is the first people I see in > the list success connected Skype. I followed his instruction but no avail. Not sure why you are having problems. We have tested successfully with Skype ( rather extensively in fa

Re: [sipx-users] Connect two SipXecs systems together.

2009-12-21 Thread Todd Hodgen
Did you put the prefix of 42 in you dial plan for the new gateway? Here is how to use sipxviewer. Got to /var/log/sipxpbx delete all the files in that area, at least that is what I do so I don't have to wade through a bunch of old logs Make your test calls In /var/log/sipxpbx run merge-lo

Re: [sipx-users] Connect two SipXecs systems together.

2009-12-21 Thread Todd Hodgen
When you select Gateway, select Unmanaged Gateway. You will be given the opportunity to enter the IP address of the far end. There are notes below it - "To interconnect two VoIP systems using SIP enter the IP address or fully qualified name of the other system." With this, each side is giving pe

[sipx-users] FW: Sip Trunk with Skype -- Success

2009-12-21 Thread Sen Heng
Hi Rangn, Could you help with Skype-SIP trunk please. Dim is the first people I see in the list success connected Skype. I followed his instruction but no avail. Do you have any suggestion about internal SBC file or the other things? Thanks a lot, Sen -Original Message- From: dimitris

Re: [sipx-users] Connect two SipXecs systems together.

2009-12-21 Thread Tony Graziano
Calling into a sip system would not require credentials. Calling out DOES, which is why the user has to register first. Tony Graziano, Manager Telephone: 434.984.8430 Fax: 434.984.8431 Email: tgrazi...@myitdepartment.net LAN/Telephony/Security and Control Systems Hel

Re: [sipx-users] Connect two SipXecs systems together.

2009-12-21 Thread Todd Hodgen
Start with your DNS. Can you see the the Other side from each site? When you connect these site to sites up, they are assumed to be trusted, so no password is required. You couldn't get in if they didn't explicitely let you in. Your dial plan seem accurate. -Original Message- From: sip

Re: [sipx-users] Connect two SipXecs systems together.

2009-12-21 Thread Tony Graziano
You could add the public ip address as the gateway to the remote system and have your dial plan use that gateway. Site 1 ip 1.2.3.4 Site 2 ip 2.3.4.5 Site 2 uses a dialplan to dial site On site 2, create an unmanaged gateway to dial, ipaddress 1.2.3.4. Etc. Tony Graz

[sipx-users] Connect two SipXecs systems together.

2009-12-21 Thread steven warner
Hello! I'd like to connect two SipXecs systems (system A and B) such that a user on A could dial an extension on B and connect without a provider. Both systems behind a NAT. I have followed this: http://sipx-wiki.calivia.com/index.php/HowTo_interconnect_two_sipX_PBXs And still cannot get it go

Re: [sipx-users] 32 or 64 bit? CentOS 5.2 or 5.4?

2009-12-21 Thread Tony Graziano
I think I haven't seen a 64 bit iso in a while. Yes, using the 64bit yum repo to install it is the right way. Tony Graziano, Manager Telephone: 434.984.8430 Fax: 434.984.8431 Email: tgrazi...@myitdepartment.net LAN/Telephony/Security and Control Systems Helpdesk: Tele

[sipx-users] Location based DNS SRV records

2009-12-21 Thread Josh Patten
If anyone is interested or wishes to modify/edit/add to it, I posted my document on setting up BIND views for location based DNS SRV in the new confluence wiki. I realize it will probably get moved at some point, but I wanted to get it online before I started traveling for the holidays. http://

Re: [sipx-users] 32 or 64 bit? CentOS 5.2 or 5.4?

2009-12-21 Thread m...@grounded.net
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:11:18 -0500, Tony Graziano wrote: > The answer is it will work on a 64bit os also, as you simply install using > the 64 bit repo. Tony, I can't recall 100% but I thought I was told that the ISO is 32bit only right? I've always installed using the ISO only, which means I wou

Re: [sipx-users] Paging server performance

2009-12-21 Thread Josh Patten
The asterisk solution works much better with the money they are allowing me to put toward paging: $0 Tony Graziano wrote: > Well, putting in a valcom paging system and connecting it to overhead > speakers works well. > > Tony Graziano, Manager > Telephone: 434.984.843

Re: [sipx-users] 32 or 64 bit? CentOS 5.2 or 5.4?

2009-12-21 Thread Tony Graziano
The answer is it will work on a 64bit os also, as you simply install using the 64 bit repo. More importantly you would look at the upcoming versions from a performance perspective to plan hardware accordingly. Tony Graziano, Manager Telephone: 434.984.8430 Fax: 434.984

Re: [sipx-users] 32 or 64 bit? CentOS 5.2 or 5.4?

2009-12-21 Thread mkitchin.pub...@gmail.com
I know it would work on 64 bit hardware, but i meant 64 bit CentOS as opposed to 32 bit that the ISO loads. On 12/21/2009 9:01 PM, m...@grounded.net wrote: > I asked a similar question long ago because hardware choices are important > depending on what you're up to. > > I only have 64bit hardwar

Re: [sipx-users] 32 or 64 bit? CentOS 5.2 or 5.4?

2009-12-21 Thread m...@grounded.net
I asked a similar question long ago because hardware choices are important depending on what you're up to. I only have 64bit hardware and have installed using the ISO several times now. I also have a dev server on Centos 5.x with source and it all works fine. Mike > this? Is 64 bit fully sup

Re: [sipx-users] Paging server performance

2009-12-21 Thread Tony Graziano
Well, putting in a valcom paging system and connecting it to overhead speakers works well. Tony Graziano, Manager Telephone: 434.984.8430 Fax: 434.984.8431 Email: tgrazi...@myitdepartment.net LAN/Telephony/Security and Control Systems Helpdesk: Telephone: 434.984.8426

Re: [sipx-users] 32 or 64 bit? CentOS 5.2 or 5.4?

2009-12-21 Thread Tony Graziano
I think its also contextual how involved you will be with the 32 or 64 bit. For instance, in some builds, the 32 bit might be offered more frequently in some distros. This makes testing some feature a little easier than waiting for a different build. I'm not sure it matters though.

Re: [sipx-users] 32 or 64 bit? CentOS 5.2 or 5.4?

2009-12-21 Thread Josh Patten
Absolutely Once you add the sipX repo, install it (yum install sipXecs), and reboot the server then it's essentially an ISO install. You simply have to rerun the setup script (sipxecs-setup-system) and it will all be set up. Use CentOS 5.4 (that's what I use) mkitchin.pub...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [sipx-users] Paging server performance

2009-12-21 Thread Josh Patten
I found a quirky way to get around this, and it's a bit of a kludge, but it has worked in initial prototype testing. I hacked together some asterisk dialplan to record a message, then call several different paging groups, one after another, with the same message. It takes a little while to make

[sipx-users] 32 or 64 bit? CentOS 5.2 or 5.4?

2009-12-21 Thread mkitchin.pub...@gmail.com
I thought I throw this out there under a different subject since it sort of split from my original question. From here: http://sipx-wiki.calivia.com/index.php/SipX_on_Different_Platforms It seems like 64 bit is a fine option. I could have sworn the download page used to say sipx was tested and f

Re: [sipx-users] autoattendant issue with HA configuration

2009-12-21 Thread Picher, Michael
Make sure there are no special characters in description (~...@#$%^&*, etc...) or in the AA name... also the only other time I have had a problem with AA's is if I had invalid options specified in them. Mike From: arda savran [mailto:ardasav...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 7

Re: [sipx-users] autoattendant issue with HA configuration

2009-12-21 Thread arda savran
This is the second time we are getting that recommendation but the thing is that this is not the first time we are creating an autoattendant in this system.   We had no issue with the first two times. We are trying to figure out why it didnt work this time... --- On Mon, 12/21/09, Picher, Michae

Re: [sipx-users] [sipX-dev] Improving the sipXecs project documentation wiki - aproposal

2009-12-21 Thread Picher, Michael
Scott, I'm looking forward to the new Wiki and I'm sure the rest of the community will as well. This will be a good opportunity to reorganize the content so things are much easier to locate. On the organization of the Wiki, I guess I'll need to see how things roll-up from version to version in t

Re: [sipx-users] Sip Trunk with Skype -- Success

2009-12-21 Thread Sen Heng
Yeah, my dial plan is very simple. Dialed Number Prefix and Any number of digits 0 digits 1 digits 2 digits 3 digits 4 digits 5 digits 6 digits 7 digits 8 digits 9 digits 10 digits 11 digits 12 digits 13 digits 14 digits 15 digits 16 digits 17 digits 18 digits

Re: [sipx-users] Sip Trunk with Skype -- Success

2009-12-21 Thread Tony Graziano
Did you create a dialplan for it? Tony Graziano, Manager Telephone: 434.984.8430 Fax: 434.984.8431 Email: tgrazi...@myitdepartment.net LAN/Telephony/Security and Control Systems Helpdesk: Telephone: 434.984.8426 Fax: 434.984.8427 Helpdesk Contract Customers: http://w

Re: [sipx-users] Sip Trunk with Skype -- Success

2009-12-21 Thread Sen Heng
Hi Dim, Thanks a lot for prompt response. I did follow your instruction. But I still got "ITSP timed out". Would it possible you could send your internal SBC XML file to me please ? Thanks in advance, Sen -Original Message- From: dimitris [mailto:dim_ha...@yahoo.gr] Sent: 2009年12月22日

Re: [sipx-users] Sip Trunk with Skype -- Success

2009-12-21 Thread dimitris
Sen Heng wrote: > > Hi Dimitris, > > I bought a channel and one skype-sip online number. I put > username/password into skype business control panel but my profile > shows “SIP user not yet registered at sip.skype.com” > > I would appreciate if you could share some experience. > > Thanks in advan

Re: [sipx-users] Sip Trunk with Skype -- ITSP Timed out

2009-12-21 Thread Sen Heng
Sorry, I mean I use Skype business username/password like 99051x/SBXA from business control panel... Thanks, Sen -Original Message- From: Tony Graziano [mailto:tgrazi...@myitdepartment.net] Sent: 2009年12月22日 5:14 To: he...@tcd.ie; sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org Subject: Re: [si

Re: [sipx-users] Sip Trunk with Skype -- ITSP Timed out

2009-12-21 Thread Tony Graziano
You can't use a skype username/password. It needs to be a skype business username/password. Tony Graziano, Manager Telephone: 434.984.8430 Fax: 434.984.8431 Email: tgrazi...@myitdepartment.net LAN/Telephony/Security and Control Systems Helpdesk: Telephone: 434.984.842

[sipx-users] Sip Trunk with Skype -- ITSP Timed out

2009-12-21 Thread Sen Heng
Hi, I try to setup skype-sip trunk. On Sipx side, I use 3.sip.skype.com, 5060 as port , transport= auto. The Sipx is behind firewall use internal ip add 192.101.1.4. I use "sipxbridge-1" as ROUTE. Then I put in skype username/password. On Skype side, I put in my public IP address. I al

[sipx-users] Sip Trunk with Skype -- ITSP Timed out

2009-12-21 Thread Sen Heng
Hi, I try to setup skype-sip trunk. On Sipx side, I use 3.sip.skype.com, 5060 as port , transport= auto. The Sipx is behind firewall use internal ip add 192.101.1.4. I use "sipxbridge-1" as ROUTE. Then I put in skype username/password. On Skype side, I put in my public IP address. I

Re: [sipx-users] Improving the sipXecs project documentation wiki - a proposal

2009-12-21 Thread Josh Patten
If possible can you (at the very least) give me access to start writing in my personal space so I can start creating documents (and move them to the appropriate places later)? I already have one written up to go in the non-version-specific user docs area. I think the proposed layout will work v

Re: [sipx-users] Any complaints running on HP BL460 blade?

2009-12-21 Thread mkitchin.pub...@gmail.com
I'm definitely not using virtual. I'm moving everything else in my data center (except by largest HP UX Oracle DBs) to VMware, but not sipx. Maybe/hopefully one day, but not right now. On 12/21/2009 2:16 PM, Josh Patten wrote: > I only have 87 registrations on this system currently with an avera

Re: [sipx-users] Any complaints running on HP BL460 blade?

2009-12-21 Thread Josh Patten
Don't know, but I imagine if you aren't using any special services or doing any BLF monitoring that you'd only be limited by your bandwidth. Josh Patten Assistant Network Administrator Brazos County IT Dept. (979) 361-4676 On 12/21/2009 2:07 PM, Abdul Hakeem wrote: > Josh, > Just out of curiosi

Re: [sipx-users] Any complaints running on HP BL460 blade?

2009-12-21 Thread Josh Patten
I only have 87 registrations on this system currently with an average of about 8 concurrent calls, but I will soon be adding another 200 to the mix with the addition of our Sheriff's office and Jail. I'm also running it on bare metal hardware, I didn't want to risk virtualization on a voice pla

Re: [sipx-users] Sip Trunk with Skype -- Success

2009-12-21 Thread Sen Heng
Hi Dimitris, I bought a channel and one skype-sip online number. I put username/password into skype business control panel but my profile shows "SIP user not yet registered at sip.skype.com" I would appreciate if you could share some experience. Thanks in advance, Sen. On Thu, Dec 3, 20

[sipx-users] Improving the sipXecs project documentation wiki - a proposal

2009-12-21 Thread Scott Lawrence
One of the weaknesses of many open source projects is documentation, and I don't think that sipXecs can claim to be an exception (yet). We've got a lot of material in the current wiki [1], but it has a number of problems: * Much of it is very dated. There are warnings about problems that were

Re: [sipx-users] Any complaints running on HP BL460 blade?

2009-12-21 Thread mkitchin.pub...@gmail.com
Thank you. I was under the impression that 32 bit was preferred/better tested and I should stick with the version of CentOS that came with the newest ISO install. Am I completely mistaken? How many users do you have on that hardware? Given my understanding regarding the 32 bit OS, I hadn't plann

Re: [sipx-users] Any complaints running on HP BL460 blade?

2009-12-21 Thread Josh Patten
I would install the x86_64 version of CentOS, run a full update, then add the sipX repo in and install sipX, then you get to use all of your RAM and if any of the sipX components were compiled with 64 bit optimizations then you'll have a performance advantage. I use an HP DL-360 G5 with 8 cores

[sipx-users] Any complaints running on HP BL460 blade?

2009-12-21 Thread mkitchin.pub...@gmail.com
I would assume there are no problems, but just wanted to double check to see if anyone had any issues running the sipx ISO install on these blades. I searched BL460 and Centos 5.2 and RHEL 5.2. I didn't see any major issues. I know I'll need to go through some minor tweaks to get all the HP man

Re: [sipx-users] Auto dialer add on?

2009-12-21 Thread Daniel Petrie
Hi Mike: SIPez builds custom end point applications using the sipXtapi user agent that we maintain. We have a IVR server engine upon which we could write an auto dialer as you describe. Please let me know if you would like to discuss a possible solution. Cheers, Dan --- On Fri, 12/18/09, m..

Re: [sipx-users] Custom hunt group?

2009-12-21 Thread Picher, Michael
You could vote for it... I think the source routing feature if/when implemented will do what you need. http://track.sipfoundry.org/browse/XX-5077 Thanks, Mike -Original Message- From: sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org [mailto:sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org] On Behal

[sipx-users] Custom hunt group?

2009-12-21 Thread Robert B
Last year I had an Asterisk setup where the sales team wanted to have calls to the sales extension routed to the sales team based on region of the incoming NPA. We did this with a custom script in Asterisk which used a MySQL table NPA -> Internal Region -> Extension. If all else failed, the use

Re: [sipx-users] autoattendant issue with HA configuration

2009-12-21 Thread Picher, Michael
I believe that VM must reside on the same server as sipxconfig. Mike From: sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org [mailto:sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org] On Behalf Of arda savran Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 9:12 AM To: sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org Subject: [sipx-users] autoatt

Re: [sipx-users] Phone Group vs Individual Phone Configuration (again)

2009-12-21 Thread Picher, Michael
No, I think that's the way it is on all of the Polycom phones... I think it's a bit odd that it isn't in there at the group level. Mike From: sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org [mailto:sipx-users-boun...@list.sipfoundry.org] On Behalf Of Burden, Mike Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 10:

Re: [sipx-users] ITSP outbound 602 Error

2009-12-21 Thread Josh Patten
I see a couple of things that might be causing an issue. First, does your ITSP take 10 or 11 digits? 10 digit would be 847-382-7754 and 11 would be 1-847-382-7754, you are sending 11 to them (not sure if this matters). Second, you are sending your internal caller ID to the ITSP, which is most l

Re: [sipx-users] Phone Group vs Individual Phone Configuration (again)

2009-12-21 Thread Tony Graziano
I don't understand why if you create a new group and add a phone to it why the moh uri would not be filled in. I've never seen this issue (unless the DNS or something is actively wrong). Tony Graziano, Manager Telephone: 434.984.8430 Fax: 434.984.8431 Email: tgrazi...@

Re: [sipx-users] Phone Group vs Individual Phone Configuration (again)

2009-12-21 Thread Todd Hodgen
If you make changes to an individual phone, it will overwrite your Group Configuration. If you configure it via a browser, it will overwrite the sipXecs individual configuration. It actually works very well at a group level, and no configurations are required at an individual level unless you

Re: [sipx-users] ITSP outbound 602 Error

2009-12-21 Thread D. R. Lang
Josh, Here is a packet trace. Duane -Original Message- From: Josh Patten [mailto:jpat...@co.brazos.tx.us] Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 10:00 AM To: D. R. Lang; sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org Subject: Re: [sipx-users] ITSP outbound 602 Error It sometimes does. I would need a more co

Re: [sipx-users] ITSP outbound 602 Error

2009-12-21 Thread Josh Patten
It sometimes does. I would need a more complete trace to see if everything is right. Please don't forget to CC the list when responding to a mailing list post. Josh Patten Assistant Network Administrator Brazos County IT Dept. (979) 361-4676 On 12/21/2009 9:54 AM, D. R. Lang wrote: > Josh, > I

Re: [sipx-users] ITSP outbound 602 Error

2009-12-21 Thread Josh Patten
You need to inform your ITSP that they need to point SIP traffic to you on port 5080 and not 5060. Josh Patten Assistant Network Administrator Brazos County IT Dept. (979) 361-4676 On 12/21/2009 9:47 AM, D. R. Lang wrote: > I have version 4.04 running internally. I can call the external trunk

[sipx-users] ITSP outbound 602 Error

2009-12-21 Thread D. R. Lang
I have version 4.04 running internally. I can call the external trunk lines and they forward calls to the internal hunt groups. When dialing out I get fast busy signals. When packet tracing the output of the gateway I see the following results. Registration to ITSP 200, viewing the results b

[sipx-users] Phone Group vs Individual Phone Configuration (again)

2009-12-21 Thread Burden, Mike
Good morning, I deleted all of my phones and re-discovered them in order to undo any individual configuration and make sure that all of my phones were configured using the settings in the Phone Group. All of the phones are Polycom IP550, and I have double checked that they are all part of t

Re: [sipx-users] One way audio

2009-12-21 Thread Burden, Mike
I have updated my logging level from INFO to DEBUG, and I have also started a tshark trace with a circular buffer (tshark -b duration:1800 -b files:5 -w outfile.pcap), so I've always got two hours worth of packet capture. Next time it happens, I should have more info to pass along. Mike

[sipx-users] autoattendant issue with HA configuration

2009-12-21 Thread arda savran
Good Day,   We have a cluster of 4 SIPX servers,   They are all connected to the same Layer2 switch and the system is operational.   The first two servers are running all the services except conferencing and voicemail. The third server is conferencing and the fourth server is configured as dedica

Re: [sipx-users] Incoming Calls

2009-12-21 Thread Derek Bartolo
Sorry about that Ranga was trouble shooting all weekend with Tony and got the diagnosis to a network issue at the customer site as I took the system back to our office and threw it on a Linksys router with an internet connection and it worked fine. The way the customer has their network setup is by