Brent’s Thoughts

i have been setting up the Teleyapper Nerdvittles Script at work on our Asterisk server and was really surprised that there was no web interface for putting entries into it.  Since they recommended using phpadmin to enter numbers and I knew that would never fly I wrote a little cgi script that would work for it.

You can download it at the bottom of this post.  You should be able to just plop it and proccgi into your /cgi-bin directory on your webserver, take the .txt off of the end of it and edit the block starting at the fourth line.  There you can set the DNS entry for your asterisk server, set the account used to login to mysql, set the password for mysql, and set the database used by teleyapper.

The scipt does require proccgi to work as it is written in shell.  I have attached my copy that is compiled for 32 bit Linux.  If you need it compiled for something else, or just don’t trust me then you can use the above URL to get the source.  It is easy to compile if you have gcc on your box.

Callees CGI Script

proccgi

**EDIT** After I posted this to a thread on Nerdvittles site, it looks like they might add it into the distribution of Teleyapper.  So that is pretty cool.

We have been moving parts of the district over to a central VoIP phone switch located in our office at the Board of Education. It does put a importance on our servers staying up since if they are down the phones out at the buildings are effectively paper weights. That shouldn’t be a problem though as we are near a 99.9% uptime (only 8 hours of down time a year) on our equipment.

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We recently got a TE220 with onboard Hardware Echo Cancellation from Voipsupply.com for the price gouging cost of $1,150.

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I was all excited since we have had lots of reports of echo on our lines and I was glad to get the district to pay for the add on card for it. We needed to get the PCI-E aspect of the card, but they didn’t have to spring for the Echo Canceller. So I rebuilt my server onto a new machine and got everything lined out. I couldn’t find a straight answer on what I needed to have in zapata.conf in terms of the echo options. Right now I have them off.

I was getting errors in dmesg about a missing firmware for the card, but I let that go at the time because I figured that the trixbox install that I have has the zaptel drivers on it from Digium. Wrong.

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I have a few pages that list IP addresses for systems that are accessible from a webpage.  I don’t have access to change the pages so that the IPs are linked properly so I started looking around for something that would do it for me.

I couldn’t find a Firefox plugin that worked to do this, but I had previously found a GreaseMonkey script that  highlighted phone numbers in pages.  It would then let you click on them and it would dial your Asterisk Extension.

So I dig that script out of the intertubes and then dug up some regex.  A few modifications later and this is what I got.

IP Address Linker

You need Greasemonkey and a blind eye to the fact that I reused a large part of the code, but it works for me.

Thanks Intertubes!

It seems lately that I haven’t been doing a whole lot with the computers that I have at home. Lamar and I were talking about this some and I realized, that unlike when I was in college or right after, that I didn’t really have a lot of projects running that I could be thinking about.
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