System information

extension numbers, DUNDi and Asterisk
configuration, 517
extension states, 303–305
extensions
about, 84
adding special extensions, 119
dialplan syntax, 110
traditional phone systems, 363
extensions.conf, 89, 107, 241, 321, 324, 326,
356, 516
EXTENSION_STATE() function, 305
external dialing, 132
external lines
access to, 133
accessing with digit 9, 132
external paging, 230
external scripts, databases, 355
[external] section, dialplan, 133
external services, 397–442
calendars, 398–411
compiling support for, 398
configuring support for, 399–402
controlling calls based on calendar
information, 407
triggering calendar reminders, 402–406
writing call information to a calendar,
408–411
LDAP, 434–440
compiling LDAP support, 437
configuring Asterisk for LDAP support,
437
OpenLDAP, 435
Skype, 429–434
dialplan, 429–434
installing, 429
text-to-speech utilities, 440–442
Cepstral, 442
Festival, 440
voicemail IMAP integration, 411–418
XMPP, 418–428
chan_gtalk module, 425–428
compiling support for, 419
Jabber dialplan commands, 419–425
external validation of voicemail passwords,
162
externnotify option (voicemail.conf), 160, 174
externpass option (voicemail.conf), 160
externpasscheck option (voicemail.conf), 160
externpassnotify option (voicemail.conf), 160
Extra Sound Package, 114
F
Fail2ban, 567–570
configuring, 569
installing, 568
fail2ban daemon, 257
failover, 495
false conditional path, 200
families, AstDB, 214
FASST (Freenum Automated Self-Service
Tool), 253
FastAGI, 478, 480, 485
fax, 443–455
about, 443
in Asterisk, 443
Digium FAA, 446
fax pass-through, 454
fax to PDF, 448
incoming fax handling, 447–449
fax detection, 448
fax to email, 447
fax to TIFF, 447
outgoing fax handling, 449–453
email to fax, 451
file format, 450
transmitting a fax from Asterisk, 450
spandsp, 444
fax logger.conf type, 525
fax.py, 451
faxdetect option (chan_dahdi.conf), 448
faxdetect option (sip.conf), 449
featuredigittimeout (features.conf), 223
[featuremap] section, 225
features show CLI command, 226
features.conf, 221–229
application map grouping, 227
[applicationmap] section, 225
[featuremap] section, 225
[general] section, 222–224
parking lots, 228
Festival application, 434, 440
Festival server, 587
files, 24–25
configuration files, 24
log files, 25
modules, 24
parsing, 242
permissions, 50
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