Asterisk, Cacti, SNMP howto updated for slackware and translated to portugese!

Thanks to my good buddy Everton from Brazil, we’ve updated the SNMP Howto for Asterisk 1.4 with updated instructions for slackware. He’s also been so kind to provide a pdf that’s in portugese so all our non english speaking friends can read along as well. Download the slackware + snmp + asterisk howto in english here Download the slackware + snmp + asterisk howto in portugese here Leave us any comments if you find omissions or errors....

May 9, 2007 · 1 min · 77 words · Matt G

Using sipp to stress test your asterisk 1.4 pbx system

In addition to [yesterday’s post][1] about SNMP and Asterisk 1.4, here is how I tested the graphs to ensure the calls were showing up as I expected. Here is what I did tonight to test mine. I used the information I found in this post to write most of this, but I changed it around slightly.. Compile SIPp from here Create this in your asterisk extensions file [sipp] exten => 2005,1,Answer exten => 2005,2,SetMusicOnHold(default) exten => 2005,3,WaitMusicOnHold(20) exten => 2005,4,Hangup exten => 2002,1,Answer exten => 2002,2,Goto(MENUCONTEXTORSIMILARCONTEXT,s,1) exten => 2002,3,Hangup Create this in your sip....

April 17, 2007 · 7 min · 1451 words · Matt G

Monitoring Asterisk 1.4 with SNMP and CACTI for pretty graphs!

This, wasn’t too easy to actually get going. Though I don’t have very much experience with SNMP, which may have been part of my problems. The whole SNMP / RES_SNMP with Asterisk is all very beta too from what I’ve been reading, and since the only other document really that I can find on setting this up, is by Mark Spencer himself, I hope this might help some other users out there too....

April 16, 2007 · 21 min · 4391 words · Matt G

m0n0wall and cisco vlan howto for asterisk voip

Setting up Vlans on your Cisco Switch with Monowall Requirements: Cisco 2950 Soekris or similar w/ m0n0wall Network Diagram: Network Hardware Picture: The Howto First, we telnet to the switch and perform the following: cisco1>enable Password: cisco1#conf t Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. cisco1(config)#int vlan10 Now we can configure our first vlan, in this case vlan10. Now, since we’re doing the phones vlan, we’ll give it a description...

April 15, 2007 · 8 min · 1538 words · Matt G

Stargate Atlantis Cisco 7970 Ringtone

I was watching Stargate Atlantis the other night, and there was a small portion where a door opened and it played a neat sound. I thought hey, this would be a great ringtone for us fans. I’ve captured the audio, converted it to pcm format, which can be used with your Cisco SIP phone. I’m sure it could also be used on Polycom, and other phones too. Download the Stargate Atlantis Ringtone here - wav Download the Stargate Atlantis Ringtone here - pcm

January 18, 2007 · 1 min · 83 words · Matt G