Technical information

BASIC FAX SERVER ADMINISTRATION
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If the fax administrator wants to change user billf's password, he would enter:
vfxadmin user -p billf
The system will prompt the fax administrator to enter billf's new password.
Deleting a user
To delete user ID billf, enter:
vfxadmin user -x billf
Displaying a list of registered and licensed users
To display a list of registered and licensed users, use the command:
vfxadmin user -l
Assigning a DID or DTMF extension to a user
A Direct Inward Dial (DID) or a Dual Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) extension can be used to route inbound faxes.
Fax routing allows each user to have his or her own unique fax number so that faxes can be routed directly to their
personal email inbox.
A fax routed to an email inbox arrives as a formatted TIFF attachment to an email message. TIFF files can be opened
and viewed with any common imaging editing or viewing software.
Command line
To assign a user's DID or DTMF extension, enter:
vfxadmin user -e <ext> <user>
Device administration
Devices are either single-channel modems or Fax boards, which usually provide several output channels on a single
board.
Note
After making modifications on a device like customizing the fax page header, you must restart the scheduler for
the new configuration to be taken into account.
Adding and removing devices
For a physical fax device to send fax requests, it must be added to the system, set to accept requests, and enabled.
Before incoming faxes can be received, receive capability must also be set and it must be enabled. Typically, a
device only needs to be added to the system once.
Notes
You must be logged in as root or user vsifax to add or remove devices.
When a device is added to the system, it is set to "enabled" and "accepting" for both send and receive requests
by default.
Before you add or remove a device, you must stop the fax scheduler. After adding or removing a device, you must
restart the scheduler in order for these changes to take affect.
If you add or remove devices while the scheduler is running, you will be warned that the changes will not take
effect until the scheduler is restarted.
Command line for adding a device
To add a device, you must use the vfxadmin device command:
vfxadmin device -a -i <FIM name> -v <tty device> -n "<comment>" <device name>