Category Archives: Asterisk

Installation of the echo canceller Oslec and DAHDI

Once I installed a Chinese TDM410P card for connecting analog telephone lines and a bundle of Asterisk + Dahdi.
Since the board has no hardware noise cancellation, Oslec had to be installed.
When making calls, there was no echo from the side of the analog telephone, but whoever spoke into the IP phone heard himself.

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Zabbix notifications by phone via Asterisk

One night at the station, the air conditioners turned off and the temperature started to rise, naturally, I received email notifications on the phone, but since it was night, I only saw them in the morning, so it was necessary for such an emergency to quickly make the possibility of phone call notifications.

I will give an example of the variant of Zabbix alerts using a phone call through Asterisk.

Asterisk should have a module loaded, to do this, open the module configuration file, for example, in the nano editor (Ctrl+X to exit, y/n to save or cancel changes):

sudo nano /etc/asterisk/modules.conf

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Asterisk compile error solution “‘pjsip_tcp_transport_cfg’ has no member named ‘sockopt_params’”

Once I compiled Asterisk version 13.13.1 and when running make I noticed the following error:

‘pjsip_tcp_transport_cfg’ has no member named ‘sockopt_params’

pjproject-2.2.1 has already been compiled.

Solved the problem by compiling a newer version of pjproject-2.4.5

cd /usr/src
wget http://www.pjsip.org/release/2.4.5/pjproject-2.4.5.tar.bz2
tar -xjvf pjproject-2.4.5.tar.bz2
cd pjproject-2.4.5
CFLAGS='-DPJ_HAS_IPV6=1' ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --disable-sound --disable-resample --disable-video --disable-opencore-amr
make dep
make
make install

After that, the error disappeared.

Configuring Fail2Ban for Asterisk

On the test I will use Asterisk 13.1.0 and Fail2Ban 0.9.3-1 installed in Ubuntu Server 16.04.1 LTS.

Install Fail2Ban as I wrote in this article – Installing and Configuring Fail2ban

Open the configuration file Asterisk responsible for logging events in /var/log/asterisk/messages:

sudo nano /etc/asterisk/logger.conf

Add security to messages:

messages => notice,warning,error,security

Restart the asterisk logging system:

sudo asterisk -rvv
logger reload
quit

Add the Asterisk configuration file to the directory with the Fail2Ban configuration, thus activating the monitoring of its logs:

sudo nano /etc/fail2ban/jail.d/asterisk.conf

where 86400 in seconds = 24 hours, that is, the attacker will be blocked for a day.

[asterisk]
enabled = true
bantime = 86400

Or, change the file /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf where [asterisk-tcp] and [asterisk-udp] are false to true.

Restart fail2ban for the new configuration file to load:

sudo fail2ban-client reload

Let’s check the work:

sudo fail2ban-client status asterisk

Done, now Fail2Ban will block IP addresses from which the passwords to Asterisk accounts are not correctly entered.

Sending Asterisk voicemail to multiple emails

Let’s say the voice mail is configured as I described in the article – Setting up voicemail in Asterisk.
There is the following context:

[voicemailcontext]
207 => 1111,Username,test@example.com,,attach=yes|tz=ua|delete=yes

If you want to send a voice message to several email addresses, then instead of test@example.com, for example, testmail:

[voicemailcontext]
207 => 1111,Username,testmail,,attach=yes|tz=ua|delete=yes

Then open the /etc/aliases file in a text editor:

sudo nano /etc/aliases

And let’s specify aliases for testmail:

testmail: support@example.net,user@example.net

For the changes to take effect, you need to update the alias database with the command:

cd /etc
sudo newaliases

Done, Asterisk will send a message to testmail, and it will be automatically forwarded to the specified addresses.

See also:
Redirecting mail for the root user