Talk:FreePBX

	Note:

Please note that FreePBX is a GUI and Asterisk is the telephony engine. The asterisk engine can load modules that perform specific tasks. One of these (set of) modules is DAHDI. DAHDI is required if you want to connect your Asterisk PBX to e.g. POTS or ISDN for local physical breakout. Before Asterisk 1.6, DAHDI was also required as a timing source for the conference application, but for later Asterisk 1.6 and later this is no longer a dependency.

DAHDI is absolutely NOT required if you only use SIP/IAX2 trunks via a trunk provider for breakout to the telephony network (SS7). So all DADHI issues may not be valid for a lot of users who do not need DAHDI, and FreePBX and Asterisk work perfectly without DAHDI, if you only need SIP/IAX2 trunks.

Even if you do need to break out locally, ATA's or routers with POTS lines come in handy and you don't need DAHDI either, thus keeping your SME Server stable and without any hassle. Therefore I would like to see the FreePBX contrib evolve to a more basic contrib, where DAHDI can be 'activated' after initial install and as a seperate procedure.

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retrieve_conf failed to sym link:

  /etc/asterisk/sip_notify.conf from core/etc

This can result in FATAL failures to your PBX. If the target file exists and not identical, the symlink will not occur and you should rename the target file to allow the automatic sym link to occur and remove this error, unless this is an intentional customization.

 mv   /etc/asterisk/sip_notify.conf   /etc/asterisk/sip_notify.conf.old
 ln -s /opt/freepbx/admin/modules/core/etc/sip_notify.conf /etc/asterisk/sip_notify.conf
chown asterisk:asterisk /etc/asterisk/sip_notify.conf

Unnilennium 23:59, 1 November 2012 (MDT)

version for SME8

need to update freepbx framework until at least 2.8 and would be better in http://www.freepbx.org/trac/milestone/2.10 or http://www.freepbx.org/trac/milestone/2.9

as current version of asterisk is 1.6 in sme8

for sme7 should not update after 2.8 as asterisk 1.4 is not supported anymore

17:22, 10 November 2012 (MST)Unnilennium

install on SME8 with kernel >2.6.18-308.21

first get an up to date system

yum update
signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot

add elrepo to your machine

/sbin/e-smith/db yum_repositories set elrepo repository \
Name ' ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Repository - el5' \
BaseURL ' http://elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/$basearch' \
mirrorlist http://elrepo.org/mirrors-elrepo.el5 \
EnableGroups no \
GPGCheck yes \
GPGKey  http://elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org \
Visible no \
Exclude clamav,spamassassin,libselinux,perl-HTML-Parser,lm_sensors,\
perl-IO-stringy,perl-XML-Parser,razor-agents,libgcrypt,rpm-python,\
libxml2,zlib,gnupg,libxml2-python,yum,module-init-tools,rpm,gettext,\
librpm4,glib2,perl-libwww-perl,perl-Convert-ASN1,beecrypt,fetchmail,\
libacl,libtool-ltdl,popt,libgpg-error,freetype,perl-MIME-tools,mutt,\
gd,perl-TimeDate,librpm4.4 \
status disabled
signal-event yum-modify

install without dependency the last available from smecontribs dahdi-linux rpm, without deps because it requires kmdl that are not available anymore

wget http://mirror.canada.pialasse.com/releases/8.1/smecontribs/i386/RPMS/dahdi-linux-2.4.1-70.el5.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh --nodeps dahdi-linux-2.4.1-70.el5.i386.rpm

install freepbx with kmod

yum --enablerepo=smecontribs --enablerepo=elrepo install smeserver-freepbx kmod-dahdi

then

signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot

then go to your server-manager and update freepbx (up to 2.9 as it it the last version to fully support asterisks16) through its own interface after each version upgrade execute (2.5->2.6->2.7->2.8->2.9)

signal-event freepbx-update

to get access again to the interface.

procedure to update : - go to module admin - click check online - update all available "Upgrade all" - then apply changes and reload ( orange box) - then click check online - select 2.x "Upgrade Tool", install by clicking "process" and follow the instructions ( basically doing the same previous process, but by first updating only the FreePBX Framework, and after applying and reloading all update all other modules)

known issues for obsolete versions

SME8: Sounds

you might have some trouble with sounds not playing, after updates of freepbx. The problem is that freepbx in new release configures asterisk to search for sounds in /usr/share/asterisk/sounds but all rpm for centos will install them in /var/lib/asterisk/sounds

create a symlink for each folder in it and everything will works.

SME8: Dahdi-linux-kmdl

be carrefull to keep the kernel module up to date every time you have a new kernel release ( wait if they are not available)

SME8: FOP could not reload

if after installation you get this message just do a

service freepbx restart

and everything will get fine !

SME9: warnings during yum install

you can safely ignore any of the following warnings during the installation :

Installing : asterisk-sounds-extra-en-ulaw-1.4.11-1_centos6.noarch                                                                                                         22/45 
warning: user asterisk does not exist - using root

and

Installing : kmod-dahdi-linux-fwload-vpmadt032-2.9.0-1_centos6.2.6.32_279.14.1.el6.x86_64.x86_64                                                                           15/45 
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-573.26.1.el6.x86_64/weak-updates/dahdi-linux-fwload-vpmadt032/dahdi_vpmadt032_loader.ko needs unknown symbol vpmadtreg_unregister
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-573.26.1.el6.x86_64/weak-updates/dahdi-linux-fwload-vpmadt032/dahdi_vpmadt032_loader.ko needs unknown symbol vpmadtreg_register
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-573.8.1.el6.x86_64/weak-updates/dahdi-linux-fwload-vpmadt032/dahdi_vpmadt032_loader.ko needs unknown symbol vpmadtreg_unregister
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-573.8.1.el6.x86_64/weak-updates/dahdi-linux-fwload-vpmadt032/dahdi_vpmadt032_loader.ko needs unknown symbol vpmadtreg_register
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-642.1.1.el6.x86_64/weak-updates/dahdi-linux-fwload-vpmadt032/dahdi_vpmadt032_loader.ko needs unknown symbol vpmadtreg_unregister
WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.32-642.1.1.el6.x86_64/weak-updates/dahdi-linux-fwload-vpmadt032/dahdi_vpmadt032_loader.ko needs unknown symbol vpmadtreg_register

they are only the result of the order choosen by yum for doing the install, and they do not impact the final result.

in /var/log/asterisk/freepbx.log you might see the following

[2016-06-10 12:14:08] ERROR[11265] res_pjsip_config_wizard.c: Unable to load config file 'pjsip_wizard.conf'

you can safely ignore it, or refer to https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/PJSIP+Configuration+Wizard in order to create your own.

SME9: install more language pack manually

In 2019, language sound module stop displaying available language packs. It seems that freepbx team has issue or stop populating their $xml = $this->getRemoteFile("/sounds-" . $base_version . ".xml"); file for fpbx13 : http://mirror1.freepbx.org/sounds-13.0.xml As a result sound lang module will display an empty list.

Just change MYLANG='fr' to your desired language.

mkdir /root/soundpacks
cd /root/soundpacks
MYLANG='fr'
wget -r -l 1 -c --no-directories --no-parent -A 'asterisk-*-sounds-'$MYLANG'-*' -R '*.txt,*sha1' http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/sounds/
rm -f robots.txt
for OUTPUT in $(ls *-$MYLANG-* )
do
tar -xzf $OUTPUT -C /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/$MYLANG
done
chown asterisk:asterisk -R /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/$MYLANG

After that login to freepbx and add a custom language for your lang to be able to use it.

SME9: difficulty to upgrade

if you installed this contrib before 8/4/2017, you should issue the following command to exclude the php packages from asterisk-current repo. They could conflict with upstream packages and block your updates (php-pear(DB) = 1.7.13 Updated By: php-pear-DB-1.7.14-1_centos6.noarch (asterisk-current) Not found).

db yum_repositories setprop asterisk-current Exclude php-*
signal-event yum-modify

===SME9: CDR logging not enabled by default===

CDR logging is not enabled by default. To enable one must manually load the cdr_mysql.so module:

Admin -> Asterisk Modules -> Manually loaded Modules -> Add module and enter the module name cdr_mysql.so

SME9: /tmp owned by asterisk:asterisk

update to a version of smeserver-freepbx >=13.3 and this will be fixed

SME9: freepbx modules

if you need to install the digium addons from freepbx, you will first need to install the following RPM:

yum install php-digium_register --enablerepo-digium-current

Firewall addons does not work on SME, it requires Sysadmin RPM.

You may need to manually install the manager module. It should be a default module but I could not find it installed, and nothing appeared in the Module Admin.

fwconsole moduleadmin listonline

fwconsole ma downloadinstall manager