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Trixbox message waiting indicator

May 12th, 2010 No comments

After importing extensions with trixbox using the bulk extension tool you will have to preform a few changes. When an extension is imported the context is set wrong for the voicemail and mailbox. To correct this change the highlighted sections in the following two pictures from “device” to “default”.

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Asterisk dialplan injection

April 27th, 2010 3 comments

Dialplan injection is great for preserving changes in a web ui distro such as trixbox. The released version 0.1.1 has an error in its SQL file that will break operation. The install.sql included with the package has error comments that breaks the MySQL import. I have also modified the table for extension varchar longer then 10 which will allow rules for long distance numbers.

  • Download the modified install.sql (patch)
  • Now load the modified SQL into your database
  • mysql -u root -p asterisk <  install.sql
  • Note: trixboxes default root password is passw0rd (the o is a zero)

Alternatively here’s a bundled new installer (ver 0.1.1m) so you can follow these easy steps to install the dialplan injection module

Categories: Asterisk, CentOS, work Tags:

Inspiron 6000 Windows 7

January 11th, 2010 No comments

Windows 7 nor Dell’s website offer any driver downloads for the audio driver on an Inspiron 6000

Download this driver for 32bit support.

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Xen CentOS guest to VMware

December 18th, 2009 No comments

use the vmware vcenter converter standalone
once the machine is in your esxi server
power it off and connect a centos install cd as your cd and make sure its connected on start
power on the vm and hit esc at the vmware bios post
boot from your centos install cd Read more…

Categories: CentOS, ESXi, work Tags:

Dell r410

December 16th, 2009 No comments

Never buy a Dell r410 without the hot swap option. The drive bays are only removable if you take the cover off of the server due to a retaining clip at the back of the hard drive sled.

Categories: ESXi, work Tags: ,

Openfire Admin Password Reset

December 8th, 2009 1 comment

First check your openfire.xml file located in your conf directory (example: RHEL5 is /opt/openfire/conf).

Look for the lines to give you the server’s address, database name, username and password to authenticate with. Read more…

Categories: CentOS, work Tags:

vSphere + ESXi4 SSH Tunnel

December 3rd, 2009 No comments

In order to use vSphere properly over a SSH tunnel forward the following ports

  • 902
  • 443

If you still cannot connect with vSphere to your remote machine update your hosts file. For example, if your ESXi 4.0 server is named vmsrv1 edit your hosts file:

127.0.0.1      vmsrv1

With Windows your hosts file is located in C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc and under Linux /etc/hosts

Categories: ESXi, work Tags:

TypeError: unsubscriptable object

September 11th, 2009 No comments

Running a yum update today on a server generated this error, here’s a quick fix.

yum clean metadata

yum update

Categories: CentOS, work Tags:

Spam!

April 13th, 2009 No comments

Trying to battle spam is a full time job. Recently with a work migration I have been trying to remove our IP’s from SORBS. SORBS has identified our IP as a dynamic pool due to our ISP’s business allocation being in the same class a network as their residential service.

Some great tools:

  • Multi RBHL search – http://www.blacklistalert.org/
  • IronPort’ s Senderbase – http://www.senderbase.org
Categories: email, spam, work Tags: