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Asterisk: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition
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Asterisk: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition

by Jim Van Meggelen, Russell Bryant, Leif Madsen
June 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
412 pages
11h 4m
English
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Chapter 11. PBX Features, Including Parking, Paging, and Conferencing

I don’t believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It’s on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it’s supposed to give you a parking space. It’s worked so far.

Billy Connolly

This chapter discusses several peripheral features common to business telephone environments. We’ll briefly cover the features.conf file, and then spend a few sections on paging and parking, and finally do a bit of work with Asterisk’s conferencing engine, confbridge.

First up, let’s copy the features.conf file over from the installation directory, and have a look at it:

$ sudo cp ~/src/asterisk-16.<TAB>/configs/samples/features.conf.sample \
/etc/asterisk/features.conf 

$ sudo chown asterisk:asterisk /etc/asterisk/features.conf

features.conf

Asterisk provides several features common to most PBXs, many of which have optional parameters. The features.conf file is where you can adjust or define the various feature parameters in Asterisk.

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