This article moves on from Part 1. I have updated the kamailio installation file so you will need to download this and run through Part 1 again. Make sure it all installs correctly.   The first step is to go into the /etc/kamailio.cfg file. In this file is the configuration for kamailio. When calls are between Kamailio ...

[caption id="attachment_399" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Historic photo of Elastix World 2010"][/caption] When I joined the elastix team in the year 2008, I was very excited to work with people all over the world contributing in a free software project made in Ecuador. Things like Elastix Without Tears excited me a lot, a book about Elastix written by someone in Australia. During time, I start meeting people from the community. Lots of ...

  WARNING: DO NOT INSTALL THIS ON A PRODUCTION MACHINE! Some of you may want be wanting to increase the capacity of your Elastix machine. Asterisk generally has issues when you start to put a lot of SIP peers on it. One of the best ways to get around this is to install a proper SIP server and join it with asterisk. This allows you to ...

Yes it's surprisingly easy, and yes you too can have it today! This is still very much a work-in-progress, as we're merging two unfinished products and I've not had enough of a chance to test it thoroughly either so I'm hoping for some response from the community on this one. I think this is quite possibly the first time that ...

  Sunshine Networks has posted a great step by step article on how to install Fail2Ban on Elastix systems. More and more PBX systems are being hacked these days and we should be trying everything to stop hackers from getting in and making expensive calls. Fail2Ban is one more feature you can use to keep people out. http://www.sunshinenetworks.com.au/how-to/56-install-fail2ban-on-elastix-16.html ...

  An update for Elastix invoicing has been completed to fix a bug in the older version which caused it to report incorrectly. ICT has given their time to do this. You can find the new version on sourceforge here http://sourceforge.net/projects/ictinvoice/ Also Elastix have asked for this module to be put into Elastix 2.0 as default. If you would like to see this happen please leave a comment saying you would like it in there. ...

This Friday we are goint to have our first bug squash party. Elastix developers would be present in the Elastix Developer(#elastix-dev) channel in the freenode network. The objective of this bug squash party is to resolve bugs in both Elastix 2.0 and 1.6.x Everyone is invited: beta-testers, developers and users! Date: Friday June 25, 2010 Time: 10:00 – 17:00 GMT -5 (15:00 – 21:00 GMT 0) IRC Channel: #elastix-dev Network: irc.freenode.net ...

It's happened to everybody at some time or another, you wish you could go back to yesterdays system. You make a change and delete some IVR menu you shouldn't have but can't remember how it was setup so you can't recreate it. The built-in Elastix Backups is great, but only if you remember to do it. I have the memory of a sieve so ...

  Update 18 June 2010 Andrew the developer of the FreePBX endpoint manager has come on board to help us build the new endpoint manager. He has already added support for the Linksys/Cisco handsets for those out there using the Linksys SPA range. We will keep moving forward with the development, however with very few donations and no vendor support it will be a rocky road ahead.   Original Post  For a long time Elastix has lacked a good endpoint ...

  Many Elastix installed out there will be using Elastix in a large enterprise organisation. Elastix can be a great solution for a large corporate however underneith asterisk can struggle when many extensions are loading it down. As soon as you have more than 200-300 extensions asterisk can struggle on many boxes to keep up with all the registration requests coming in. Asterisk does a fantastic job of being a great PBX however when scaling to large ...