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How to Replace exten with same in Asterisk

Replace “exten =>” with ” same =>” Today I’m going to give you a simple perl one-liner that will let you convert an entire extensions.conf file with a simple command. Disclaimer! This code comes with no warranties, implied or expressed

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Upload Asterisk Recordings to Amazon S3 in Real-time

Hey guys, today we’re going to talk about uploading asterisk recordings to S3 in realtime. This will work for both plain Asterisk and FreePBX, and can be adjusted to work with any derivative. In addition! This will also convert your

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How to Live Transfer with FreePBX or Asterisk

For sales inquiries, contact Rob @ 888.235.o5o5 Something that comes up time and time again is the desire to do warm and/or “live transfers” on Asterisk and FreePBX systems. (Including Trixbox, elastix, and others). Basically the way it goes is

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FreePBX – Use CPU Affinity to isolate Asterisk from MySQL + Apache (httpd)

A lot of people are using FreePBX as their distribution of choice. It’s a pretty awesome program (not without flaws, but what is?) that simplifies configuration of asterisk to make it easy for anyone to deploy their own phone system.

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Get All Logs of a Number that was Dialed

Hello everyone! I know it’s been a long time since I’ve posted, but today you’re in for a treat. Every asterisk or FreePBX administrator that has had to troubleshoot by pouring through pages and pages of logs will love this

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Queues: Too many Calls in queue crash Asterisk.

If you’ve ever had problems where high calls in queue crash asterisk, or if too many calls in queue spike cpu usage, then you may have problems with erroneous agents logged into the queue.  This article applies to Asterisk 11.0.1

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