Year: 2020

FreePBX15 – Warmspare

A Warm spare server is used as a failover mechanism to provide reliability in some system configurations.  The warm spare is active and connected as part of a working system. When a key component fails, the warm spare is switched into operation. Why would someone need a warm spare setup?  If voice communication is the

Read More »

FreePBX – Migration Towards PJSIP

Going back several versions, FreePBX has had options to configure SIP with either Asterisk’s chan_sip or chan_pjsip. As mentioned in the blog post here,  https://www.asterisk.org/deprecating-chan_sip-asterisk-17-0-0-rc2-release/ chan_sip is already deprecated in the Asterisk world, so it’s past time to start thinking about “Migration towards PJSIP” within FreePBX. The FreePBX engineering team has been working in this

Read More »

A Secure FreePBX is a Happy FreePBX

“Security is always excessive until it’s not enough.” –Robbie Sinclair, Head of Security, Country Energy, NSW Australia Hello Everyone, Security should be high on the list of things to consider for any FreePBX installation.  As more companies are applying changes to provide a good work-from-home experience for their employees,  doing this securely is something on

Read More »

Change your dial plan… and support 988!

With today’s modern cloud communications systems, the way administrators build phone systems, and the way that users interact with them has been changing at an ever-increasing pace. Unfortunately, some of those changes can be somewhat dehumanizing: We all know someone who complains about IVR menus because they feel that phone menus have taken the humanity

Read More »

FreePBX Performance Profiling with Xdebug and Webgrind

For the purpose of this blog entry, we intend to document how to install and use Xdebug to profile an application and how to install and use Webgrind to view the data produced by Xdebug to identify bottle-necks in the code. I realize that this blog article is more technical than normal, but I’m hoping

Read More »
Scroll to Top