How to eliminate this problem? The release of OpenVox FA100 failover box solves it. The FA100 can automatically switch the PSTN line to analog telephone when the power of the PBX server has been cut off and will automatically switch back to normal when the power is on again.
Support USB 2.0 and 1.1. Support all compatible analog cards and E1/T1/BRI cards. Two indicator lights: red and green. Two light, Asterisk and FA100 work normal. Only green lights, Asterisk hangs and FA100 switches PSTN line to the backup phone.
Usually under Linux, you do not need to install driver program. Generally system already comes with a USB - to - Serial Drivers support. Users can run the following command to see if the FA100 has been recognized or detected by the system.
FA100 User Manual FA100 Operating Instruction The following picture shows how the FA100 works when the PBX Server and Asterisk work. The PSTN signal goes from: 1->(blue)2->(red)3->(green)4->(purple) When dial out from internal, the PSTN signal goes inversely. OpenVox Communication Co. Ltd | www.openvox.c...
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FA100 User Manual If the PBX Server stops working (power off) or Asterisk works abnormally, FA100 will launch automatic switching function, and the PSTN signal goes as follows: 1->(blue)2->(purple) When dial out from internal, the PSTN signal goes inversely. OpenVox Communication Co. Ltd | www.openvox.c...
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When Asterisk works abnormally,the PSTN signal goes: 1->LAN (red) 2-> Redundant network (purple) If FA100 doesn’t receive the "running" signal from the Main Server, then the internal circuits will be switched to Redundant Server automatically. OpenVox Communication Co. Ltd | www.openvox.c...
1) Unzip the file #tar –xvzf failover-1.0.1.tar.gz #cd failover 2) Copy the file to res directory under asterisk # cp res_failover.c /usr/src/asterisk-**/res/ 3) Copy the configuration file to /etc/asterisk directory # cp failover.conf /etc/asterisk/ OpenVox Communication Co. Ltd | www.openvox.c...
;autorun=yes [openvox_failover_1]:Name of FA100 Device, to distinguish from different devices, Must Be Configurable: device=/dev/ttyUSB0:Name of USB device that FA100 uses, Must Be Configurable; kick_time_interval:the time interval of software watch dog; the OpenVox Communication Co. Ltd | www.openvox.c...
FA100 status in system log; autorun:it decides whether FA100 starts when asterisk boots; default is yes which means FA100 starts when asterisk boots; if no, the FA100 will not start when asterisk boots and users will need manually boot the device by running failover start command.
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FA100 User Manual 6) Check connection *CLI>pri show spans 7)Reboot DAHDI *CLI>dahdi restart OpenVox Communication Co. Ltd | www.openvox.c...
FA100 User Manual Technical Support If you meet any technical problems when using OpenVox products, you can check our Forum for help or contact us directly be the following ways: BBS feedback problems Input issues to our BBS when you encounter technical problems, we will solve the problem you mentioned as soon as possible.
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