Running High Availability on FreePBX distro.
Currently I have both of my machines do the cluster replication over my LAN, without a dedicated cable connecting the two servers. Replication (subnet 172.26.32.1) is running on my LAN. However I want to change that.
I ran a direct connection between my two HA machines and want to run replication on there and assign 172.26.32.1 to a different NIC. Is that possible without having to rebuild the cluster from scratch?
The node was working prior to this issue. The only thing I can think is a restart was done a couple of weeks prior. Is there any reason that the ucpnode would have not automatically started upon boot? tm1000 You were correct as a "fwconsole start ucpnode" resolved the error.
Thanks for the help @dicko. Couldn't figure out what I should end up with exactly so I did every combo I could think of:
[root@freepbx tftpboot]# cp spa001f9e244f8d.xml spa001F9E244F8D.xml
[root@freepbx tftpboot]# cp spa001f9e244f8d.xml spa001F9E244F8D.XML
[root@freepbx tftpboot]# cp spa001f9e244f8d.xml SPA001F9E244F8D.xml
[root@freepbx tftpboot]# cp spa001f9e244f8d.xml SPA001F9E244F8D.XMLSo:
[root@freepbx tftpboot]# ls -l /tftpboot/* |grep -i 001F9E244F8D
-rwxr-xr-x 1 asterisk asterisk 592 Jan 29 15:42 /tftpboot/spa001f9e244f8d.xml
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 592 Feb 1 10:11 /tftpboot/spa001F9E244F8D.xml
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 592 Feb 1 10:11 /tftpboot/spa001F9E244F8D.XML
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 592 Feb 1 10:11 /tftpboot/SPA001F9E244F8D.xml
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 592 Feb 1 10:11 /tftpboot/SPA001F9E244F8D.XMLSo with this collection of files, I rebooted the phone with the same results, the phone requests its config files (observed via tcpdump/wireshark):
CTLSEP001F9E244F8D.tlv
SEP001F9E244F8D.cnf.xml
SIP001F9E244F8D.cnf
MGC001F9E244F8D.cnf
XMLDefault.cnf.xml
SIPDefault.cnf
MGCDefault.cnfand the TFTP server returns file not found for each. -- Bud
I didn't know "Custom destinations".
Very useful.
Thanks for sharing.
So
FreePBX 13.0.54
Anyone else having trouble with REST apps?
Using EPM to config D70's It seems that sometimes when the phone pull the config from the PBX the button placement is correct but when you press the EX DND button all i get is a blank screen on the phone.
Kinda flaky
anyone else have this problem or suggestions?
it looks you are trying to provision from the wrong template
Hello,
I ask information in order to configure the automatic closing of calls after 60 minutes of talk time as users sometimes leave the phone hung up.
Use as elastix distribution, I saw a bit of time-out configurations in the forum but I do not know and I have not figured out how to precisely configure this feature for all calls including those from telephone extensions.
Waiting
greetings and thanks
Hi all. Had a customer complaining about this for a long time, could never verify it was happening as it was intermittent, and they have a high enough call volume that looking for something like this is like a needle in a haystack without any phone numbers to reference, or call times.
So, occasionally, a call will come in, the caller will dial the person they're trying to reach, and will end up getting someone they didn't dial. Now, my setup:
This is an old box; was trixbox, was upgraded to asterisknow, and then upgraded to freepbx. Using FreePBX 6.12.65-30. Running on real hardware.
So, I followed the logs through the call and found the guy call in, dial the individual's extension (114). His 114 extension has a follow-me that goes to a queue (16). The 16 queue is a queue with one static agent, extension 114. The queue plays an announcement and announces wait time, and caller position in queue. The user can press '1' to breakout to the extensions voicemail.
Now, this works 95% of the time. However, sometimes the call will just start going to another extension at the same time while it's in queue 16 (or any other queue; we have about 5-6 users with this sort of follow-me/queue setup). It's like the PBX just decides to add a random agent in there.
Here's a pastebin (replaced the calling phone number with XXXXXXXXXX):
http://pastebin.com/39aQUsLF
Around line 273, you can see extension 107 somehow suddenly become part of the call.
Can someone explain this to me? Is this a freepbx bug? I saw "LazyMember" in there; isn't that a VQPlus thing? I've got VQPlus installed but disabled...
We upgraded from freePBX12 to freePBX 13.0.54 and it seems "Voicemail" is no longer an option "no answer" destination for a ring group or an option for an IVR selection? Is this a bug? If not, what is the intended work-around?
You might want to change some php.ini settings. The default upload file size limit is 20 megs. Here's the settings I found work with larger systems:
upload_max_filesize = 100M (defaults to 20)
max_execution_time = 300 (defaults to 30)
max_input_time = 600 (defaults to 60)
memory_limit = 1024M (defaults to 512M)
or you could SCP the backup file to the default local server location /var/spool/asterisk/backup/, then it will show up in restore when you select local server and there will be no upload.
I'm trying to install the FreePBX iso on a KVM using a kickstart file to make it go from command to running PBX quickly. I'm using libvirt to create the new virtual machine, however I'm finding it hard to figure out how to actually do this.
I keep getting "▒" after I press install without the kick start file.
Would it be better to do CentOS 6.5 then just run the FreePBX install afterwards? And if so, does anyone have an example of a kickstart file for installing FreePBX on CentOS?
Thanks
That's possible. When I tried to do a network scan for the phone, it isn't found either. That said, the phone is a cisco 7940 and I added Cisco as the brand, created a template and added CP7940 as an "Available Phone". Not sure what else I can do. -- Bud
Yes, it is possible. Here's the docs: http://clusterlabs.org/doc/en-US/Pacemaker/1.0/html-single/Pacemaker_Explained/index.html#s-add-heartbeat
You probably don't want to do it that way unless you carefully read that whole document and know what you are doing. Unfortunately, there are also currently issues with HA backup/restore, so if this is a live system, I suggest waiting until freePBX 13 HA backup/restore works properly.
If you must, fully update the machine, backup the machine, clean re-install on same machine, activate (you will get your licenses back), update to same level, copy backup file to /var/spool/asterisk/backups, apply backup, immediately go to advanced settings and select view and override read-only settings, submit (NOT APPLY), then find the block "Remote CDR Database" and clear out all settings. Now apply config. There will be a few left-over issues in your freepbx_settings table.
Fix them at the command line with:
# fwconsole chown
# amportal a s
# fwconsole ma refreshsignatures (repeat until it doesn't change anything)
Then create the cluster with separate interconnect NIC.
Then fresh install, update freepbx-b and join to cluster.
Good luck! 
Hello,
I posted a bug problem on this on Friday, Jan 29. They (FreePBX) fixed a problem with BLF for me, and that introduced a new bug.
My problems are programming the buttons to do things. Issue 11456 and as of Monday 1pm CST, the ticket has not been commented on by staff.
I did find out that by going backwards a few versions in EPM, to 13.0.18.4, I could program properly.
Christian
Opps! Just noticed your backup file is 300MB?! You must have your CDR file in there. Adjust php.ini upload_max_filesize = 400M
Still works like it always has. Do you have the Voicemail module installed?
Hello Chad,
Comcast and their friends (Time Warner, Big Box DSL) seem to provide dumb/stupid devices to the end users (us) to simplify configuration for the masses. Thus, anytime I have a business connection that I consult for, I push the business to get a proper firewall/router setup, and simply have the ISP push their box into a bridge, and let me control all of the settings on the proper firewall/router setup.
Common devices I use are older Linux boxes with 2 network cards, or Mikrotik devices. I like the Mikrotik components for cost and configuration simplicity, but Mikrotik doesn't support UDP OpenVPN, so if I want to do fancy VPN work, I plop a computer down.
Anyways, FreePBX is using CentOS 6.x, which is a re-branded RedHat Enterprise Linux 6. Do not search for RedHat 6, or you may confuse with results from the RedHat "Original Series" of which RedHat 6 was around the turn of the century, 1999-2000.
As I do not like major servers to sit outside of the firewall, may I suggest the following:
-- Put a Router in front of the FreePBX machine
-- Configure the Router to forward ports if required
-- Have the FreePBX machine on the local network
If you want to get into the guts of CentOS networking, you can find the configuration scripts in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and the ifcfg-eth0 is the first network card. Warning that you should not hand-modify those files, as if they are out-of-sync with the web interface, you could start chasing your tail again.
If that fails, I think it may be time to re-install FreePBX.
Christian
Thanks for the info. I rolled back to 13.0.18.4 and the DND feature is now working. Looks like a bug in EPM
Yes, In Module Admin -> Settings group, Voicemail module 13.021 is installed and enabled.
The commercial Voicemail Reports and Voicemail Notify are disabled.
However, I just noticed that in Settings->Voicemail->Usage my 5217 voicemail boxes are disabled and activated=0 and unactivated=0