Solved Issues migrating Elastix 2.4 to FreepBX 13
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With the demise of Elastix, Sangoma put out a tool to convert systems to FreePBX.
Problem is that is does not work with Elastix 2.4 as it requires FreePBX 2.9 or higher.
I upgraded the unembedded FreePBX on a system and no go.
Someone else posted recently on the FreepBX forums about this issue, but then never responded to a question. I responded this evening. hopefully they will give me an intelligent answer to check things.
https://community.freepbx.org/t/conversion-tool-error/38846/3[root@3227-pbx ~]# curl -s https://convert.freepbx.org | bash Checking that 'curl' exists ... OK! Validating sha256 integrity ... OK! Trying to download converter to /tmp/tmp.XghJhY6651 ... Complete! Validating download ... OK! Starting FreePBX Converter version release/20151217r1 Testing connectivity to Conversion server...Success! FreePBX Conversion Wizard ------------------------- The FreePBX Conversion Wizard needs to be run on two machines, the NEW machine, which must be an ACTIVATED FreePBX Distro machine, and then it must be run on the DONOR machine. The DONOR machine is the machine that is currently processing calls, and is the machine that will be migrated to the NEW machine. No changes will be made to the DONOR machine, and this script will not stop or restart any services that may cause an outage. If this is the NEW machine, just push 'Enter' to prepare this machine Enter ID (blank if this is NEW): c...............6 Testing FreePBX functionality ... Failed. Received '/etc/freepbx.conf doesn't exist. This must be run on a FreePBX machine' instead of 'OK' Cleaning up...Done! [root@3227-pbx ~]# ls /etc/free* ls: /etc/free*: No such file or directory [root@3227-pbx ~]# -
And I solved it.
I noticed a warning in the FreePBX dashboard about permissions.
So I ran it, and look at that... It moved freepbx.conf.
[root@3227-pbx ~]# amportal chown moving /etc/asterisk/freepbx.conf to /etc/freepbx.conf SETTING FILE PERMISSIONS Permissions OK -
First you run this script on the new machine and get the ID.
[root@bpbx ~]# curl -s https://convert.freepbx.org | bash Checking that 'curl' exists ... OK! Validating sha256 integrity ... OK! Trying to download converter to /tmp/tmp.HTxVQTafPB ... Complete! Validating download ... OK! Starting FreePBX Converter version release/20151217r1 Testing connectivity to Conversion server...Success! FreePBX Conversion Wizard ------------------------- The FreePBX Conversion Wizard needs to be run on two machines, the NEW machine, which must be an ACTIVATED FreePBX Distro machine, and then it must be run on the DONOR machine. The DONOR machine is the machine that is currently processing calls, and is the machine that will be migrated to the NEW machine. No changes will be made to the DONOR machine, and this script will not stop or restart any services that may cause an outage. If this is the NEW machine, just push 'Enter' to prepare this machine Enter ID (blank if this is NEW): Testing FreePBX functionality ... Success! (Version 13.0.190.12) Getting Deployment ... 19983072 Getting all Module versions (for conversion) ... OK Reserving a conversion slot ... Reserved! The Conversion process is now ready. Please run the script on the DONOR node now, and when asked for a slot identifier, please enter the following ID: cbdce81b-2ec1-4ed4-bddc-ad557da1f546 [|] Waiting on DONOR to send data -
Then you run the same thing on the machine you are migrating from.
You will fill in the ID from the first machine.
[root@3227-pbx ~]# curl -s https://convert.freepbx.org | bash Checking that 'curl' exists ... OK! Validating sha256 integrity ... OK! Trying to download converter to /tmp/tmp.PftRnI5651 ... Complete! Validating download ... OK! Starting FreePBX Converter version release/20151217r1 Testing connectivity to Conversion server...Success! FreePBX Conversion Wizard ------------------------- The FreePBX Conversion Wizard needs to be run on two machines, the NEW machine, which must be an ACTIVATED FreePBX Distro machine, and then it must be run on the DONOR machine. The DONOR machine is the machine that is currently processing calls, and is the machine that will be migrated to the NEW machine. No changes will be made to the DONOR machine, and this script will not stop or restart any services that may cause an outage. If this is the NEW machine, just push 'Enter' to prepare this machine Enter ID (blank if this is NEW): cbdce81b-2ec1-4ed4-bddc-ad557da1f546 Testing FreePBX functionality ... Success! Checking Slot ID ... OK! Getting modules to convert ... Complete! 109 modules Dumping astdb ... Complete! Do you want to copy /tftpboot to the new machine [Ny]? y Creating encrypted backup for new machine. This may take some time. Backing up the following: 47M /var/spool/asterisk 4.0K /var/lib/asterisk/moh 7.9M /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/custom 33M /tftpboot Complete! Sending backup details to new machine ... Complete! Module announcement (Skipped 1, Completed 0) ... announcement Module callback (Skipped 13, Completed 1) ... callback Module callrecording (Skipped 16, Completed 2) ... callrecording callrecording_module Module cidlookup (Skipped 21, Completed 3) ... cidlookup cidlookup_incoming Module conferences (Skipped 21, Completed 4) ... meetme Module core (Skipped 24, Completed 5) ... sip dahdi featurecodes incoming outbound_routes freepbx_settings trunks users devices dahdichandids globals language_incoming languages outbound_route_patterns outbound_route_sequence outbound_route_trunks outroutemsg trunk_dialpatterns trunks Module customappsreg (Skipped 25, Completed 6) ... custom_destinations custom_extensions Module daynight (Skipped 28, Completed 7) ... daynight Module disa (Skipped 32, Completed 8) ... disa Module fax (Skipped 35, Completed 9) ... fax_details fax_incoming fax_users Module findmefollow (Skipped 37, Completed 10) ... findmefollow Module iaxsettings (Skipped 42, Completed 11) ... iaxsettings Module ivr (Skipped 44, Completed 12) ... ivr_details ivr_entries Module miscapps (Skipped 47, Completed 13) ... miscapps Module miscdests (Skipped 47, Completed 14) ... miscdests Module paging (Skipped 49, Completed 15) ... paging_groups paging_config Module parking (Skipped 50, Completed 16) ... parkplus Module pinsets (Skipped 54, Completed 17) ... pinsets pinset_usage Module queueprio (Skipped 57, Completed 18) ... queueprio Module queues (Skipped 57, Completed 19) ... queues_details queues_config Module recordings (Skipped 58, Completed 20) ... recordings Module ringgroups (Skipped 61, Completed 21) ... ringgroups Module sipsettings (Skipped 63, Completed 22) ... sipsettings Module timeconditions (Skipped 70, Completed 23) ... timeconditions timegroups_groups timegroups_details Module vmblast (Skipped 75, Completed 24) ... vmblast vmblast_groups Module voicemail (Skipped 76, Completed 25) ... voicemail_admin Attempting to discover users email addresses ... (37 users, 3 with email) Complete! Export complete! This backup is currently being processed by the conversion servers, and will be automatically downloaded and installed on the NEW machine when completed. Please Note! All SIP and IAX trunks on the NEW machine will be set to DISABLED, and you will need to manually re-enable them. This is to avoid accidental outages if the NEW machine registers to a peer unexpectedly. Cleaning up...Done! -
Then you will see the new system getting the data and creating users
[root@bpbx ~]# curl -s https://convert.freepbx.org | bash Checking that 'curl' exists ... OK! Validating sha256 integrity ... OK! Trying to download converter to /tmp/tmp.HTxVQTafPB ... Complete! Validating download ... OK! Starting FreePBX Converter version release/20151217r1 Testing connectivity to Conversion server...Success! FreePBX Conversion Wizard ------------------------- The FreePBX Conversion Wizard needs to be run on two machines, the NEW machine, which must be an ACTIVATED FreePBX Distro machine, and then it must be run on the DONOR machine. The DONOR machine is the machine that is currently processing calls, and is the machine that will be migrated to the NEW machine. No changes will be made to the DONOR machine, and this script will not stop or restart any services that may cause an outage. If this is the NEW machine, just push 'Enter' to prepare this machine Enter ID (blank if this is NEW): Testing FreePBX functionality ... Success! (Version 13.0.190.12) Getting Deployment ... 19983072 Getting all Module versions (for conversion) ... OK Reserving a conversion slot ... Reserved! The Conversion process is now ready. Please run the script on the DONOR node now, and when asked for a slot identifier, please enter the following ID: cbdce81b-2ec1-4ed4-bddc-ad557da1f546 [|] Donor now sending module 'voicemail', table 'voicemail_admin' ... Trying to retrieve the backup from the DONOR machine ... [-] Download complete (61163552 bytes) Validating ... Complete! Decrypting and extracting ... Complete! Queueing conversion ... OK Embedded response found, creating raw import file. Processing data ... Complete! 27 modules to import 37 users to import Clearing astdb ..Complete! [] Importing ASTDB ... Complete! [] All modules imported. Running module 'customappsreg' command 'fwconsole ma install customappsreg' ... Complete! Adding user 6001 (Bundy Test 1) ... User created (Note: No email address!) with password Parrot6crew3sure Adding user 6002 (Bundy Test 2) ... User created (Note: No email address!) with password tear*Nearer5Coffee Cleaning up...Done! [root@bpbx ~]# -
Now log into your new FreePBX system and it will show the Apply Config warning.
Do so.
At this point you can go through the new system one piece at a time and make sure you are good.
Change a couple extensions to point to your new PBX and make sure they register and can call each other.
Once you are sure that the basics are working, disable the trunks on the old system, enable on the new system, and verify outside connectivity works.
Finally, you can change the rest of the extensions.
