Extras

Tunnelling to the Elastix Web interface

One of the other great things you can do with SSH tunnelling is tunnelling to the Elastix web interface. When you are using putty to login to your machine use this tunnelling rule.

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Introduction

Sometimes the best tools we can use are the simple ones. I have been an asterisk tech for over 4 years now and this is one of the tools I couldn’t have been able to live without. On most IP networks customers are splitting their voice and data networks. The phones are on a completely different network to the computers and the Elastix box will be the only device which connects to both networks. SSH tunnelling allows you to connect to the phones when you are on the data network. Another situation where tunnelling is great is when you have remote access to your Elastix machine but you only have access to port 22. SSH tunnelling allows you to connect to the Elastix machine then tunnel to any device on the Elastix network. SSH tunnelling is done through putty. Putty is a program that allows you to load the linux shell through your windows machine. You can grab putty from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/.

Configuration

In this example I will connect to an Elastix box then I will tunnel to an IP phone on the network. Open putty and put in the ip address of the Elastix machine you want to connect to.

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