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

Hacker On/Off Switch for Public Phones – Historical Post

Not really VOIP related, but telephony related.. Found in my backups and put here for historical purposes 🙂 A long time ago I worked at Staples. This was back when I was living in London, Ontario. Anyway, there was this guy that kept coming in and he’d constantly use our public phone to do his business. I’m pretty sure it was some shady business too, he would speak to his prospects and talk about meeting them on street corners and down alleys in the city....

February 16, 2007 · 2 min · 257 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

Bypass Menu for Friends in Asterisk

I was looking for a way to bypass my menu tree, for friends calling into my line. I didn’t want them to have to listen to my menu each and every time they call. Since I have my own CID Rolodex using the Asterisk Database, I figured I could quickly bypass the menu for any entries already in my “known friends” database. With a little help from the asterisk users mailing list, I got this all sorted out and working like a charm....

January 8, 2007 · 1 min · 162 words · Matt G