If it is shadow copy, you have to adjust how often Shadowcopies are taken. It's a pretty cool piece of included tech, but as you notice, it can put a strain on resources when it's copying. Deciding if this is something the company needs might be outside of IT's purview. They might decide the feature is so nice it's worth more hardware.

@jaredbusch said in FreePBX and SMS:

@ndc said in FreePBX and SMS:

Tinkering a bit with FreePBX at home and I saw there is an option for using SMS service with it. Documentation suggests that this only works with SIPStation and I was not especially looking to sign up with them.

Does anyone know if that function is really locked down to the one SIP provider? I saw that VoIP.ms has some support for SMS but wasn't able to find anything about whether that would work within FreePBX or not. All signs kind of point to this being a no go at the moment.

There is nothing locked down to a specific thing with Asterisk. Asterisk is completely FOSS.

FreePBX modules may or may not be FOSS as you see.

There have been SMS modules and scripts created over the years for Asterisk systems. I would have to dig into them to find something though. It has not been anything a client has requested recently.

SIPStation pricing is not the best, but if SMS is really needed, it is not all that expensive.

Thanks, I was not thinking about that in the right frame of reference.

I'll likely have a go at this and see what I can make happen.

@g-i-jones said in Windows 7 Pro Lock screen not applying.:

e already set up from factory as having the oobe\info\backgrounds directory made and registry value was already 1 on those

ewwww - a factory image?

I pulled a @jaredbusch and justed used voip.ms 😄

@scottalanmiller said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

@fuznutz04 said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

@travisdh1 So on second thought, I'm thinking it might be a better approach to redirect the call recordings to the block device directly, without extending the LVM volume to the block device. So it would be like this:

Attach block device and create partition and file system.
Mount the new device to a new directory (/callrecordings)
In FreePBX, point the call recordings to this new directory.

This way, the VPS disk, is still completely separate from the block device disk. In my head, this just seems cleaner, and has less potential for errors if the block device is ever unavailable.

Thoughts?

Yes, that makes way more sense.

The only thing that made me think of that was because about 2 weeks ago Vultr NJ had some issues with block storage. If they have an issue again, at least I could still boot the VM. (although I would have to remove the block device from the fstab. But then, It should boot fine I suppose. (crosses fingers)

@pravin said in Softphone for Linux???:

No, not working tried different OS and Versions.. I don't recognize

No matter what you try that one field just stays greyed out?

@matteo-nunziati said in replacement for netstat is ss:

yeas it is a lot of time since developers have created a new gen of net tools but still I feel more confy with old stile commands

Yeah, I'm more comfortable with the new things like ip instead if ifconfig every day, but still seems odd at times.

@penguinwrangler said in Enterprise backup: Citrix XenServer, RHEV, oVirt, KVM:

@matteo-nunziati Yes, I treat them independently. Which I would love to have the Veeam Appliance which can control them but money is too tight for that.

Let us know when the money isn't so tight 😉

@RestoronixSean

We have plans to add an in memory database to ML in the future when more performance is needed, as well.

Why not Wave?

Have not used it, I'm afraid.

@jaredbusch said in FreePBX for Family?:

@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX for Family?:

@jaredbusch said in FreePBX for Family?:

@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX for Family?:

@aaronstuder said in FreePBX for Family?:

What are some advantages to using FreePBX and not going direct to a VoIP provider?

SIP Provider Failover Free Extension to Extension Calling Maybe more Control? Voicemail, Call Forwarding, etc?

Extension to Extension is big for me. The whole family can call each other this way.

Except when you setup direct to VoIP.ms it is still ext to ext.

Oh really? And you don't pay per extension?

They are just sub accounts.

Interesting. That's pretty handy.

@guyinpv said in Small office phone setup, looking for improvements...:

Are we using IVR and voicemail greetings the same way?

Isn't IVR the interactive thing with menus and "press 1 for this" etc?

Nothing interactive about standard voicemail.

Does FreePBX have separate voicemail vs. IVR or is it all one in the same?

Separate

Cant you just use the wsus console to view this information? It will tell you how many computers and which computers need/have a specific update applied.
I suppose you could take that page, find the query it uses and copy it.
Or just use the console.

@creayt said in Is sharing a single network connection between two servers dumb?:

@dashrender said in Is sharing a single network connection between two servers dumb?:

This isn't a NIC teaming situation.

The OP has one internet connection that needs to be split over two servers.

Normally one would install a switch and then run a cable from each server to the switch, and the switch to the internet... BUT - in this case, the OP doesn't have an open power socket for the switch (it would cost them more money) so they are looking for a way to do ICS (Internet connection sharing) from one server to the other.

This really seems like a bad idea. I'm guessing this means no Out of Band connections for the servers, and only a single connection for both servers. So if the first server dies, the second one becomes useless.

Really seems like a time to re-evaluate the priorities here - why are you in a DC if you can't afford these other seemingly needed things.

Thanks for the response! If the first server died, the datacenter team would pull the cable from the dead server and immediately plug it into the 2nd server, so there'd be a small window of downtime, but it'd theoretically take over all duties immediately. Agree it's a bad idea, but this is all for a hobby project where some downtime is acceptable and I'm trying to really be a cheap muhfuh 🙂

Not sure that would work. It would depend on how it's set up.

@dashrender said in Unable to originate a call with the UCP in FreePBX 14:

@jaredbusch said in Unable to originate a call with the UCP in FreePBX 14:

@dashrender said in Unable to originate a call with the UCP in FreePBX 14:

@jaredbusch said in Unable to originate a call with the UCP in FreePBX 14:

@dashrender said in Unable to originate a call with the UCP in FreePBX 14:

Interesting feature, what's it main use though?

Not tieing my to me desk to make a phone call. I wear a DECT headset pretty much all day. When I am at my desk I don't need this function, but when I am working from elsewhere around the house, I cannot originate a call without it. That or I have to walk back to my office.

Luckily FOP2 also has a call origination function.

aww, since your headset doesn't have a keypad, you need this to make calls from your headset.

Why would I want a headset to have a keypad? It is a headset.

I know your just angry because you haven't had enough coffee or nooners, whatever - it's OK.

If hangry is when being hungry makes you angry, would this be cangry or nangry?

Do reboots have to happen at the time of update? Or can they wait? Any reason to delay updates rather than just delaying the reboot?

Firewall?

@quixoticjeremy said in Storage Spaces and ReFS:

@dafyre said in Storage Spaces and ReFS:

@quixoticjeremy said in Storage Spaces and ReFS:

@dafyre said in Storage Spaces and ReFS:

@dustinb3403 said in Storage Spaces and ReFS:

I might need to investigate Wine again, when I tried it, things were rough to say the least.

I haven't run Wine in a while, but when last I tried, any app that needed SSL did not work. Browsers couldn't do HTTPS, any app that tried to do encryption or anything like that would fail... If they'd fix that a lot more games and online things would work.

Interesting, had no idea about this.

This is relatively recent as well, like in the Wine 1.9 & 2.0 branches.

Good to know, I was just debating on switching my gaming machine over recently, glad I didn't if this recent hiccup is going to cause issues.

Steam under Wine worked well, as did several of my games. But WOW did not.