Technical information
INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION GUIDE
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For example to add a Class 2 modem device named fax2, in Linux/Unix, enter:
vfxadmin device -a -i cx -v /dev/tty01 -n "This is a modem" fax2
In Windows, the command would be:
vfxadmin device -a -i cx -v com1 -n "This is a modem" fax2
Note
If you want the added device to be the default destination, add the -d option to the vfxadmin device
command.
At the time a device is added, you must specify the serial port name. Additional options that can be used include:
Status (enabled, sending, receiving, accepting)
Receive notify procedure
Speaker mode
Once the device is configured, you can use vfxadmin device to list the device information. To list the parameters
for a device fax2, enter:
vfxadmin device -l fax2
You can verify that the device has been added by entering:
vfxstat -t
Important
Before removing a device, be sure that no requests are scheduled for it. You have to cancel or modify existing
requests before removing the device.
To remove a device, enter:
vfxadmin device -x fax2
You can use thevfxstat -t command to verify that fax2 has been successfully removed by entering:
vfxstat -t
Setting a device to receive or not receive incoming faxes
By default, all fax devices are configured to answer incoming calls and therefore receive incoming faxes. You may
want to selectively turn this feature on and off so that some of your fax devices are configured as send-only or
receive-only.
To configure a device fax1 to not answer incoming calls and therefore not to receive incoming faxes, enter:
vfxadmin norecv fax1
Device fax1 now not receiving
To configure device fax1 to receive incoming faxes, enter:
vfxadmin recv fax1
Device fax1 now receiving
Setting a modem or Brooktrout board to detect DTMF
Dual Tone Multi-Frequency DTMF detection is supported for c2 modem FIMs (i.e. Class 2/2.0 fax modems) and for
bm FIMs (i.e. Dialogic Brooktrout TR1034 board). It is disabled by default. You can enable it by editing the
$VSIFAX/lib/vsisrv.ini file.
To turn on DTMF detection for modems, set the enable-did parameter to ON in the [DEVICE] section of
vsisrv.ini file.
To turn on DTMF detection for Brooktrout fax boards, set the dtmf-enable parameter to ON in the [DEVICE]
section of vsisrv.ini file. Three other parameters are available to configure DTMF detection on Brooktrout
boards: