Small Asterisk-Addons 1.4 Chan OOH323 compilation howto

Today I was trying to upgrade to the latest Asterisk-Addons on my Asterisk server. I am using the 1.4 series (as you all should be by now) and the most current release of Gentoo Linux. Because Gentoo uses somewhat “unstable” software I have differing versions of libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh. In order to get around this I had to do the following # cd asterisk-addons-1.4.2 # cd asterisk-ooh323c # nano configure and then I had to hit control-w, and search for libtool....

June 24, 2007 · 2 min · 312 words · Matt G

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

Replace Notepad with Notepad2 on Windows XP SP2

I noticed yesterday that there was a new Notepad2 release. If you’re not aware, notepad2 is a fantastic replacement for the regular notepad that comes with your windows installation. Check out notepad2 here. In the past it’s been a bit of a pain in the ass to replace notepad with notepad2 on your windows xp box. This weekend I decided to replace it on my system with the new release, which now supports ....

May 6, 2007 · 2 min · 403 words · Matt G

PfSense on a soekris instead of monowall notes

Requirements: Soekris NET4801 PfSense Embedded Image CF Reader Serial Cable for the soekris CF Card 256 MB The Steps I took: Backup your old Soekris / Monowall configuration xml file Buy a new CF card so we can keep the old configuration sane so it’s plug and play “back to working” incase pfsense doesn’t work Plug your cf reader into one of your linux boxes, and do this with the image...

April 23, 2007 · 2 min · 300 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