This should, if I recall, authenticate using the extension number and voicemail password. I am not 100% certain if in the latest FreePBX someone has to granted special access to the panel within the extension settings or just have voicemail activated with a password set as in previous versions. What's new in 1.0.3: Add panel context and dial prefix in options What's new in 1.0.3: Better number matching to avoid dates, make unregistered extensions invisible What's new in 1.0.5: Fix deprecated desktop notifications What's new in 1.0.6: Context menu to dial selected text. We start out by building you your very own Skin that is based off the FreePBX GUI using the FreePBX Distro ISO. All the upgrade scripts and upgrade paths for the FreePBX Distro still apply to your custom OEM version. All FreePBX commercial modules are fully supported and can be purchased and installed on any of your systems. Flash Operator Panel (SME8) Flash Operator Panel is a switchboard type application for the Asterisk PBX. It runs on a web browser with the flash plugin. It is able to display information about your PBX activity in real time. The layout is configurable (button sizes and colours, icons, etc). The User Control Panel is broken into the following sections; Call Monitor - Extended call logging.View a list of all calls made and received at the extension. Voicemail - View, Play, Delete, File and forward voicemail messages from your web browser. The User Control Panel is broken into the following sections; Call Monitor - Extended call logging.View a list of all calls made and received at the extension. Voicemail - View, Play, Delete, File and forward voicemail messages from your web browser.; Conference Pro (Requires Conference Pro) - Ability to manage conference room settings for any conference rooms assigned to you as the owner.

What?

cxpanelThis is a module for FreePBX©. FreePBX is an open source GUI (graphical user interface) that controls and manages Asterisk© (PBX). FreePBX is licensed under GPL.FreePBX is a completely modular GUI for Asterisk written in PHP and Javascript. Meaning you can easily write any module you can think of and distribute it free of cost to your clients so that they can take advantage of beneficial features in Asterisk

Setting up a FreePBX system

License

Contributing

To contribute code or modules back into the FreePBX ecosystem you must fully read our Code License Agreement. We are not able to look at or accept patches or code of any kind until this document is filled out. Please take a look at http://wiki.freepbx.org/display/DC/Code+License+Agreement for more information

Issues

Please file bug reports at http://issues.freepbx.org

Maintainer

original contributor: [1]Daniel B. from Firewall Services

last maintainer: [2]JP Pialasse

Version

Description

FreePBX is a full-featured PBX web application. If you’ve looked into Asterisk, you know that it doesn’t come with any 'built in' programming. You can’t plug a phone into it and make it work without editing configuration files, writing dialplans, and various messing about.

FreePBX simplifies this by giving you pre-programmed functionality accessible by a user-friendly web interfaces that allows you to have a fully functional PBX pretty much straight away with no programming required. Some of the features that FreePBX supports out of the box are:

• Unlimited number of Voicemail boxes
• 'Follow Me' functionality
• Ring Groups with calls confirmation (so if, eg, a cellphone is out of range and diverts to voicemail, all the other phones keep ringing)
• Unlimited number of Conferences (limited by available CPU power - about 300 simultaneous users in conferences on a P4 3ghz - 600 with a dual core!)
• Paging and Intercom functionality for man SIP phones that support it.
• Music on Hold (via MP3s, or streamed off the internet)
• Call Queues
• And many other features

Optional

• You may want some hardware cards if you don't want your installation to be IP only. I've tested successfully the TDM400P, TDM410P and b410P (misdn) from Digium, but any card supported by DAHDI (should be anything working with zaptel) should work.

Installation

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1. First, increase the php memory limit to at least 128M BEFORE the installation, or it will fail in the middle leaving it in an unstable state ( half mysql db installed, no modules activated).

2. Install the 4 yum repos necessary (asterisk-13,asterisk-current,digium-current,digium-13):

3. Then the actual installation :

4. By default en language with ulaw are added. If you want voicemail to work you wil need to add what is needed for your language there. You may want to add some extra format and languages. (you might choose codec {alaw,ulaw,g722,gsm} you want and language {en,en_AU,fr,es}, see http://packages.asterisk.org/centos/6/current/i386/RPMS/).

Formerly, You could also manually download them latter through the Freepbx interface (first install Freepbx Sound Languages module,then go to Admin/Sound Languages). But this seems broken as per 2019/01/11, the xml list for the module to work are empty. See known issues if you need to install multiple langauge pack easily manually

5. This is the important step of the installation, the actual configuration and installation of files:

6. Then you can start to configure and upgrade trough the interface in the server-managerit might also be necessary to reboot or relaunch asterisk to allow all modules to be launch:

You may need to first install the ATrpms repository.

source : http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=48143.0

FreePBX is composed of 4 main parts: the main FreePBX interface, Recordings, Asterisk-Stats and Flash Operator Panel

FreePBX

This is the main web interface for asterisk configuration. This interface is available at https://server.domain.tld/freepbx/admin, or in the server-manager, under FreePBX menu.You'll need to login as admin (password of your admin's SME account) to access this part.You can grant the access to any user of the system using the userpanel contrib (just grant the user or the group the permission to access freepbx panel)

Recordings

Recordings, is a web based portal for users. You may configure some features of your phone here (followme, call forward, call waiting etc...), check you call history, or download/listen to your voicemail. This interface is available at https://server.domain.tld/recordings.The login here is your phone (extension) number and your voicemail password.There's also a special admin account. The admin account can access all call logs and recordings. The login is admin, the password is randomly generated, you can find it in /opt/freepbx/recordings/includes/main.conf.php

Backup

Starting SME9 we started to integrate the FreePPX backup in the SME Server backup system. The first backup of FreePBX module is now reserved to SME usage. SME will trigger at least once a month a bakcup of your whole PBX and store it in /home/e-smith/files/freepbx/Default_backup/. Up to 2 version will be kept there. Also, every time you trigger the event pre-backup (i.e., before console backup, or workstation backup from server-manager) a backup will be done without you worrying about it (unless FreePBX is disabled). To restore your PBX after migrating to a new SME or after a disaster, just restore your SME as usual, install the smeserver-freepbx contrib and open you server-manager to access to the FreePBX interface. GO to the backup module, choose restore and navigate to /home/e-smith/files/freepbx/Default_backup/ and choose the backup to use. Et voilà !

Asterisk Stats

Asterisk-Stats is an interface to query CDR (Call Detail Reports) database. It's available on the main FreePBX interface at https://server/domain.tls/freepbx, on the 'Reports' tab

Flash Operator Panel (SME8)

Flash Operator Panel is a switchboard type application for the Asterisk PBX. It runs on a web browser with the flash plugin. It is able to display information about your PBX activity in real time. The layout is configurable (button sizes and colours, icons, etc). The FOP is available at https://server.domain.tld/panel or in the main interface in the 'Panel' tab.

You can grant the access to any user of the system using the userpanel contrib (just grant the user or the group the permission to access fop panel)

DB parameters

Here's the list of DB parameters:

This contrib add 3 entries in the configuration db: freepbx, dahdi and fop. Here's a description of available parameters for each entry

• freepbx
  • CdrDbName: the name of the database for CDR. The default is asteriskcdrdb. You should let this unless you know what you're doing
  • DbName: the name of the database for FreePBX. The default is freepbxdb. You should let this unless you know what you're doing
  • DbPassword: the password to access FreePBX database. A random value is generated at install time.
  • DbUser: the username to access both databases. Default is freepbxuser
  • DeviceAndUser: (enabled|disabled) You can enable the 'deviceanduser' display view of FreePBX. DeviceAndUser is enabled, Devices and Users will be administered separately, and Users will be able to 'login' to (adhoc) devices. If disabled Devices and Users will me administered in a single screen. Removed since SME9. Use FPBX GUI to handle this.
  • ManagerPassword: This is the asterisk manager password used by FreePBX (the login is 'admin'). The default one is randomly generated at install time.
  • UDPPorts: Lists of ports used by asterisk. This settings is only useful if you want to open asterisk on the public interface (you can also restrict it with AllowHost parameter)
  • access: (private|public). if you want to open asterisk on the public interface, you can set this to public.
  • status: (enabled|disabled). Should asterisk (with FreePBX provided helper script) should be started automatically.

• fop
  • status: (enabled|disabled) Should we start the FOP server with FreePBX ?
  • Password: This is the additional password for FOP. There's a first password needed to access FOP (by default, only admin is allowed). This first password is your SME account password. The second password (the one on this db parameter) allow users to use drag/drop on the different items (transfer call, initiate a call, hangup etc...). The default password is a random generated one at install time.
  • TCPPort: This is the TCP port used for the communication between the flash applet and FOP daemon. The default is 4445
  • access: The default is to allow only connections from the local network. You can allow external IP if you configure public here (and if you do so, you should limit this access to a list of IP using the AllowHost key)

• dahdi
  • status: (enabled|disabled) You should let this to enabled, even if you don't have any hardware card because some functions (like meetme) requires the dahdi_dummy driver to be loaded.

Note:

dahdi_dummy is no longer required as a 'timing' device (since Asterisk 1.6) . This has been solved by using other timing mechanisms automatically. So setting dahdi to disabled does no harm to meetme.

Related pages

You may be interested in the following how-to:

• How-to configure your card using DAHDI
• How-to configure your card using mISDN

Update Freepbx

To update your freepbx installation simply follow the procedure inside freepbx web interface. After every version update (from 2.5 to 2.6, etc.) you should run a

in order to update file ownership according to SME specifications.

The way the contrib is designed, updating freepbx-src (i.e. from 2.5 to 2.7) won't update your working freepbx installation.

Uninstall

If you want to cleanup everything (MySQL databases, DB, etc...), you can use this script:

Reinstall

If you need to re-install everything, you should completely remove the previous installation (remove the rpms and run the cleanup script.)

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

and everything will get fine !

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:

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:

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.

SME9: warnings during yum install

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

and

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.logyou might see the following

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 displayin available language packs. It seems that freepbx team has isue 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. 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).

Migration from earlier versions

There is currently no upgrade path between versions. Backup/Restore will most likely not work.Apparently this is planned for v14+

In the meantime some notes on manually upgrading. This was based on moving from asterisk 1.8.x and an old version of FreepBX.

First, make sure you backup ABSOLUTELY everything. In different ways and in different places.

A straight copy of /etc/asterisk and /opt/freepbx plus a complete database dump at least.

It will be better if you have a completely clean install, preferably on a VM where you can snapshot the basic install and go back if you need to.

Freepbx 14 Operator Panel

I took a copy of the freepbx DB and imported it completely into a different server. I could then do a side by side comparison of tables and data.

Here are some basic tables that you will need, though they may not all be required depending on your configuration

General

Trunks and Routes

Other

Device and User mode

Extension mode

I exported each table and a table from the new install to compare, particularly items like field lengths, and KEYS. Some old tables did not have Primary keys set.

I then copied the 'INSERT INTO' section into phpmyadmin/sql section on the new server.

If you swap from Extension to Device and User mode I found that once I had inserted the data I had to go into FreePBX, open each record, and Submit, finally followed by Apply Config. This seemed to update the DB.

Please see http://www.voipbl.org/ to adapt fail2ban to use blacklisted IP's worldwide.

Freepbx Flash Operator Panel

Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section in bugzillaand select the smeserver-freepbx component or use this link

ID	Product	Version	Status	Summary (12 tasks)
10705	SME Contribs	9.2	CONFIRMED	upgrade to fbx 14
10703	SME Contribs	9.2	CONFIRMED	Unknown column 'description' in 'field list'
10698	SME Contribs	9.2	CONFIRMED	error migrating sme8 to sme9
10620	SME Contribs	9.2	CONFIRMED	Asterisk not logging to CDR or CEL databases
10524	SME Contribs	9.2	CONFIRMED	Cannot access User Panel (UCP)
10504	SME Contribs	9.2	CONFIRMED	FreePBX proxy error on playing music files
10400	SME Contribs	9.2	CONFIRMED	smeserver-freepbx uninstall does not cleanup correctly
10221	SME Contribs	Futur	CONFIRMED	NFR: set php memory to 128M if inferior
10131	SME Contribs	9.0	CONFIRMED	after uninstallation crontab generate a huge amount of error
9945	SME Contribs	9.1	CONFIRMED	server manager :not found if freepbx disabled
9859	SME Contribs	9.1	CONFIRMED	Missing HTML5 format converters
9756	SME Contribs	9.1	CONFIRMED	If freepbx is set to disabled cron generates huge amount of emails

Only released version in smecontrib are listed here.

2018/01/29 Jean-Philipe Pialasse 13-15.sme
- fix warning tampered files in GUI [SME: 10496]

- remove DeviceAndUser property [SME: 10503]

2017/01/25 Jean-Philipe Pialasse 13-11.sme
- NFR: auto backup of whole FBX config during pre-backup event [SME: 9637]
- both asdb and fpbx, asterisk config files, freepbx folders, voicemails are part of backup
- 2 versions are kepts

- weekly backup is also done.

2017/01/23 Jean-Philipe Pialasse 13-10.sme
- fix Missing HTML5 format converters [SME: 9859]

- added requirement for mpg123 and ffmpeg available in smecontribs