Step by Step Guide. BRI Card Installation. (with Trixbox ) Version 1.0

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2 Step by Step Guide BRI Card Installation (with Trixbox ) Version 1.0

3 Table of Contents Hardware Setup... 1 Software Installation... 2 Software Configuration... 3

4 Hardware Setup 1. Insert the BRI (PCI/PCIe) card in the corresponding slot 2. Check if the installed BRI card is detected using the below command ~]# lspci -vvvvv 3. Check the output of the given command and ensure if there is a Cologne chip Unknown device with subsystem id b51a Step by Step Guide 1

5 Software Installation To use Allo.com BRI card in Trixbox, you have to reinstall dahdi-linux with the driver of CB400P/CB400E. Dahdi includes two software: dahdi-linux and dahdi-tools, here you just need to download dahdi-linux driver of CB400P/CB400E, then reinstall dahdi-linux with the driver of CB400P/CB400E. 1. Please download dahdi-linux from allo.com website. ~]# wget <link> 2. Go to /usr/src directory 3. Download the DAHDI driver with tools, which are available at # wget <link> 4. Expand the downloaded file and enter into that directory as shown in the below screenshot. [root@pbx1 ~]#tar -xvzf dahdi-linux-complete tar.gz 5. Before reinstalling dahdi-linux, you had better stop asterisk and dahdi in your server. Please use the following command to stop asterisk and dahdi [root@pbx1 ~]#amportal stop [root@pbx1 ~]#service dahdi stop 6. Please use the following command to reinstall the DAHDI [root@localhost dahdi-linux-x.x.x]#make clean [root@localhost dahdi-linux-x.x.x]#make [root@localhost dahdi-linux-x.x.x]#make install 7. During step 6, if you do not get any error information, it means that you have reinstalled dahdi successfully; if you get any error information, you have to check the error and fix it, then run the installation command above again. Step by Step Guide 2

6 Software Configuration 1. Please run service dahdi start command to start dahdi. ~]#service dahdi start 2. Run dahdi_tool from the command line and see if the span turns green for each span you have connected. ~]# dahdi_tool 3. Please run the following command to configure the /etc/dahdi/system.conf and /etc/asterisk/dahdi-channels.conf file automatically. ~]# dahdi_genconf It does not show any output if dahdi_genconf runs successfully. ~]# dahdi_cfg vvvvvvv You can get some information of all the channels as shown in screenshot, if dahdi_cfg vv command runs successfully. Step by Step Guide 3

7 4. To check whether it has finished the configuration, please open the system.conf file ~]# vi /etc/dahdi/system.conf 5. Configure file /etc/dahdi/system.conf and /etc/asterisk/dahdi-channels.conf manually, If you are using E1, you can configure the two files like the following: Step by Step Guide 4

8 Here is an example of dahdi-channels.conf file Step by Step Guide 5

9 Another example of a typical chan_dahdi.conf file 6. Start the asterisk and connect the Asterisk CLI [root@pbx1 ~]# /etc/init.d/asterisk start Step by Step Guide 6

10 7. Check the status of configured DAHDI channels in asterisk console If you can see the four spans, that means CB400P/CB400E is OK now. At this point we are ready to make calls using configured dahdi channels. Step by Step Guide 7

11 8. Input your IP of Trixbox system (For example ) in the address bar, When you see the Trixbox web page (Username:- main, Password:- password), Go to Admin login and Select Trunk option in the menu. Click Add Custom Trunk option. Here is an example of Custom trunk created via TRIXBOX GUI. Step by Step Guide 8

12 9. Next go to outbound routes, create new outbound to rule to make outgoing calls using these dahdi channels. Here is an example of outbound route using dahdi group (g11) in TRIXBOX GUI. Step by Step Guide 9

13 10. Next go to Inbound routes and select the created trunk in Trunk Sequence option. Here is an example of inbound route in TRIXBOX GUI. Now the system is ready to make calls. Step by Step Guide 10

14 Here is an example output of outbound call which is using DAHDI channel group g11. Step by Step Guide 11

15 Here is an example output of inbound call which is reached on IVR. Step by Step Guide 12