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    Jared Busch

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    • FreePBX 13 Setup Guide

      I promised everyone a detailed setup guide back at MangoCon '16. Well, I finally have it ready for you all.

      FreePBX 13 Setup Guide

      Pre-Installation

      • Initial Discovery
        • Estimating SIP trunk costs
      • Host Choice
        • How to decide where you want your PBX
          • Instructions for Vultr
      • Service Provider Choice
        • How to decide what kind of phone service to get
          • Instructions for VoIP.ms SIP trunk setup

      Installation

      • Install from the ISO
      • Initial GUI setup
      • Configure the Firewall
      • System Admin setup
      • Create your first exentsions
      • Trunk setup
      • Conference setup
      • Ring group setup
      • Creating system recordings
      • IVR setup
      • Using time groups and time conditions
      • Caller ID setup
      • Inbound call routing
      • Outbound call routing

      Setting up Desk Phones and Soft Phones

      • Coming Soon™

      Updating and Upgrading your FreePBX 13 System

      • Updating the FreePBX Operating System
      • Upgrading the FreePBX Firmware
      • Upgrading the FreePBX System Modules
      posted in MangoCon freepbx 13 freepbx setup guide real instructions how to jareds guide to freepbx 13
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    • Estimating SIP Trunk costs

      One of the first things that everyone will have to do when switching from legacy voice services such as POTS or PRI is to calculate the expected costs of a new service.

      Very often people hear me recommend pay as you go solutions and they immediately freak out saying it will be too expensive. Even though they have no idea what the costs involved look like.

      Pay as you go services like VoIP.ms, VoicePulse, and others are very cost effective means of handling your calling as long as you correctly calculate all the costs of the legacy system and the new proposal.

      First you need to realize that many legacy services hide most of your calling detail from you making this a very hard thing to truly understand. POTS lines have no detailed billing for local calling. Some carriers will not even tell you what your usage was unless you go over your long distance plan. So you only see call information for everything after that 5,000 minute package line item. There is no such thing as unlimited. Anyone selling that has fine print and they pay interconnect charges on all minutes used, so you can be certain that your monthly rate is high enough for that POTS line to cover expected usage.

      This can seem like a very daunting task, but it is not as hard as it sounds. Like anything involving cost, math and reality are your friends. First off there are only so many working minutes in a month for a business. Then you can just take those numbers, factor in a percentage of hours per day on the phone, and add some wiggle room.

      2017 Days /Month Hours / Day Minutes / Month
      January 22 8 10,560
      February 20 8 9,600
      March 23 8 11,040
      April 20 8 9,600
      May 23 8 11,040
      June 22 8 10,560
      July 21 8 10,080
      August 23 8 11,040
      September 23 8 11,040
      October 22 8 10,560
      November 22 8 10,560
      December 23 8 11,040
      Average Minutes per Month 10,400

      The math here in case anyone does not get it is Days per Month * Hours per Day * Minutes per Hour.

      So this means one person on the phone for 100% of their work shift for the full month will cost $104 in a general $0.01 per minute pay as you go SIP trunk.

      Thus, it is quite easy to extrapolate some basic numbers now that we know this. I usually plug all this into a spreadsheet and play with numbers in front of the client.

      An SMB looking at SIP trunking has 15 POTS lines from the ILEC that cost $40/month after taxes (being generous here), so 15 * $40 = $600. If we assume all 15 lines were used 100% of the time, SIP would look all kinds of expensive. Using the average from the table above 10,400 * 15 * $0.01 = $1,560. Holy crap! More than $1,500 a month for something that only costs them $600 right now. So where is the savings? Well that comes in because no business uses all of their legacy POTS lines 100% of the time, ever. Because with POTS once all the lines are used, it is impossible to make or receive any more calls. So in the legacy POTS world, we over buy what we actually need on average in order to handle the high volume times.

      If you can actually get a true CDR (call detail record) from your existing PBX or provider, then you can make real numbers here, but most likely you will be estimating. Assuming you need to estimate, the process will depend on the call flow. Simply do the best you can to poke the stakeholders for as much detail as you can get to narrow the margin of error for the estimation.

      A small general office with 35 people or so will hover around 4-5 simultaneous calls (total inbound and outbound) on average for most of the workday. First hour, lunch hour, and last hour are lower usage.

      Based on this you can calculate a better estimate, 10,400 * 5 * $0.01 = $520, we are cheaper than POTS already and long distance charges have not even been calculated for the old service yet. General long distance rates are $0.02 to $0.03 per minute. The 5,000 or 10,000 minute bundles are calculated along those rates for every client I have ever converted. Ever single minute of intestate, intrastate, interlata, and intralata calling simply adds to the cost and improves the RoI of a pay as you go SIP trunk.

      Now every office is different. Some places are on the phone more than others, but they are also paying more per month most of the time. I have seen the SIP trunk savings fall in this type of range time after time.

      Part of the FreePBX 13 Setup Guide

      Credit: Work hours chart

      posted in IT Discussion freepbx setup freepbx 13 guide real instructions jareds guide to freepbx 13 cost comparison sip trunk how to freepbx
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    • EdgeSwitch firmware 1.7.4.5075842 released

      And damn is it a sexy looking GUI.

      They have totally overhauled it to look more like UNMS.
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      posted in News ubiquiti edgeswitch firmware
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    • Add porn blocking to your Pi-hole

      A lot of people want content filtering. DNS content filtering is the best bet for almost everyone.

      If you run a Pi-Hole DNS filter for blocking adds and malicious site already, you can add porn quite easily.

      Add this url to the lists.
      https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chadmayfield/pihole-blocklists/master/lists/pi_blocklist_porn_top1m.list

      Then Click Save and Update.

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      posted in IT Discussion pi-hole content filtering dns
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    • Things to know before you start installing FreePBX

      Before you go starting to install FreePBX (or really any PBX), you need to know a few things.

      Without knowing all of this, it is highly likely that you will end up wasting money. Maybe directly by purchasing more than you need for some service or another, or just in the time spent doing things multiple times.

      1. Number of DID – How many phone numbers do they have
      2. Inbound Call Flow – How are inbound calls handled.
        • Ring Groups – Departmental ring groups?
          • Ring strategy, and remote call pickup?
          • Destination on no answer
        • IVR – Call trees, press 1 for sales, etc.
          • What are all the options
          • Destination on no selection
          • Professional recording of message or user recorded
        • Day/Night control
          • Automatic or user controlled
        • Individual DID
          • Direct to extension calls available
        • Call Queues for departments
      3. Outbound Call Flow
        • Outbound CID
        • Routing per trunk
      4. General Call Handling
        • Paging
        • Intercom
        • Music on Hold
        • Conferencing
        • Call Parking – Putting calls on hold on “Line 1”
        • Voicemail
          • VM to Email
        • Endpoint Management – How to manage desk phones
          • What buttons need to be where on the screen of each phone.

      Part of the FreePBX 13 Setup Guide

      posted in MangoCon jareds guide to freepbx 13 freepbx freepbx setup pbx
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    • Fitness and Weightloss

      So the topic came up in another thread and I thought it would be good to have a thread for those who want to talk about their trials and such.

      I'll start off by saying that this is something for those who want it known. I want the additional pressure knowing that others are aware of my progress.

      Most of my Adult life I was > 300 pounds. IN 2001 the Doctor said I was Type 2 Diabetic and needed drugs. I said screw that. I can be not a fat bastard.
      I started eating better. A few years later I started exercising at work on my breaks. Just steps or walking the parking lot.

      I went from 350 pounds (160kg) in 2001 to 176 pounds (80kg) in 2007 (on my wedding day). Many things changed in my life since 2007 and I gained some weight back (maxed at 109kg / 240 lbs).

      I want to get back under 90kg / 200lbs. My goal for the next 15 days is to get under 100kg.

      Me and a co-worker have been tracking it all year. Here is my progress.
      imgur

      That goal weight is just the US standard for 5' 10" medium build. My goal will be to stay under 90kg / 200lbs.

      posted in Water Closet fitness weight weightloss diet
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    • How to change you Server 2016 Evaluation into a Standard License

      I have had to do this a couple times and always need to look up the command.

      So I thought I would drop it here so I can search here first in the future.

      DISM /online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /AcceptEula /ProductKey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
      

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      Technet Article for doing this on Server 2012: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj574204.aspx

      posted in IT Discussion microsoft microsoft server server 2016 evaluation
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    • RE: Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab

      @travisdh1 said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

      @scottalanmiller said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

      @Dashrender said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

      I think one of Scott's points is that you don't need a decked out box to make a lab happen.

      I had an old 486 running Novell Netware what seems like 100 years ago, and a Pentium running Windows NT 4.0 This was when P II's were the rage, or was it PIIIs?

      10+ year old hardware used to be completely usable for most lab setups. now with Virtualization, you need something a bit newer, x64 and supports virtualization, but that started becoming very common 8 or so years ago, so there's that. But real servers aren't needed either. A desktop can run VMWare ESXi or XenServer or Hyper-V just fine (assuming the virtualization hardware is there). Other factors will limit the number of VMs you can run, but hey, this is a lab.

      Then today we can get $5/month VMs online - so there are options.

      @Dashrender said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

      Then today we can get $5/month VMs online - so there are options.

      And that's the price to keep it online and running 24x7. You can make scripts and build them when you need them and tear them down when you don't to learn more, cheaper than even the $5 mark!

      Yeah, I don't have a HOME lab, but I've been building things in ramnode, Digital Ocean, and Vultr in not quite wild abandon. My current Vultr instance I'm playing with is all the way up to $0.56 for this billing period. That's less than I'd pay for the electric to run something at home.

      If you are doing it outside of work hours, then it is a "home" lab IMO.

      posted in IT Careers
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    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      Just esigned the loan documents. now to go to the bank and get the cashier's check for our cash to close.

      Closing tomorrow on our house.

      posted in Water Closet
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    • Using dnf-automatic to keep Fedora up to date

      No sane person manually updates all of their stuff all of the time.

      In the Fedora realm, I use dnf-automatic.
      http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/automatic.html
      The below instructions are for Fedora 26 and newer as the exact name of the timer changed from what it previously was.

      Update: 2018/12/04

      As of Fedora 28 (possibly 27), the original timer and service name was implemented.

      dnf install -y dnf-automatic
      

      Now you need to edit the /etc/dnf/automatic.conf file to do what you want.
      Generally I change the following fields from their default values to this.

      apply_updates = yes
      emit_via = email
      email_from = [email protected]
      email_to = [email protected]
      email_host = your.smtp.server
      

      Optionally, edit the timer frequency. I leave it at the default of 1 day.

      nano /usr/lib/systemd/system/dnf-automatic.timer
      

      Sart and Enable the timer.

      systemctl enable --now dnf-automatic.timer
      

      You can list the time to see the status

      systemctl list-timers --all
      

      It will look like this

      NEXT                         LEFT       LAST                         PASSED       UNIT                         ACTIVATES
      Tue 2017-11-21 22:42:15 CST  52min left Tue 2017-11-21 21:42:15 CST  7min ago     dnf-makecache.timer          dnf-makecache.servi
      Wed 2017-11-22 20:47:10 CST  22h left   Tue 2017-11-21 20:47:10 CST  1h 2min ago  systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer systemd-tmpfiles-cl
      n/a                          n/a        Tue 2017-11-21 21:47:57 CST  1min 59s ago dnf-automatic.timer  dnf-automatic.service
      n/a                          n/a        n/a                          n/a          sysstat-collect.timer        sysstat-collect.ser
      n/a                          n/a        n/a                          n/a          sysstat-summary.timer        sysstat-summary.ser
      
      5 timers listed.
      
      

      I typically reboot at this point and then check the timer again to make sure it is running as expected.

      systemctl list-timers
      NEXT                         LEFT          LAST PASSED UNIT                         ACTIVATES
      Tue 2017-11-21 22:00:00 CST  5min left     n/a  n/a    sysstat-collect.timer        sysstat-collect.service
      Tue 2017-11-21 22:04:18 CST  9min left     n/a  n/a    dnf-makecache.timer          dnf-makecache.service
      Tue 2017-11-21 22:09:18 CST  14min left    n/a  n/a    systemd-tmpfiles-clean.timer systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
      Tue 2017-11-21 22:54:18 CST  59min left    n/a  n/a    dnf-automatic.timer  dnf-automatic.service
      Wed 2017-11-22 00:07:00 CST  2h 12min left n/a  n/a    sysstat-summary.timer        sysstat-summary.service
      
      posted in IT Discussion fedora dnf updates dnf-automatic fedora 26 systemd systemd timers
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    Latest posts made by JaredBusch

    • RE: Fiber with UniFi Udm pro

      Source NAT rules. No clue how this work on UniFi though.

      On an EdgeRouter it looks like this.
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      I assume it goes here in UniFi.
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      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Get Alert Whenever There is MS SQL Server Access

      @scottalanmiller said in Get Alert Whenever There is MS SQL Server Access:

      It's a production database so there should be an email when the application connects and absolutely no user should ever, ever, ever be able to log in unless it's an admin doing an emergency backup and/or restore (likely alerts would be off during a restore.)

      I cannot imagine a MS SQL Server based client-server application that does not make a billion DB calls all day long. So you will have to exclude that system user from being audited.

      @scottalanmiller said in Get Alert Whenever There is MS SQL Server Access:

      There's no user ever authorized to just connect.

      The application user is always connecting. Repeatedly.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Debian 11 & php8

      @Pete-S said in Debian 11 & php8:

      So right now the best approach is to wait until Debian 12 is released officially and then install Debian 12 with the new version of the application.

      Do exactly this.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Get Alert Whenever There is MS SQL Server Access

      @scottalanmiller said in Get Alert Whenever There is MS SQL Server Access:

      Email is easiest

      How in the fuck is that "easiest?" It would be a train wreck of hundreds of emails for a barely used system, let alone a busy one.

      Log to audit file and ship the log.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Miscellaneous Tech News

      Drobo finally dead

      Drobo, having stopped sales and support, reportedly files Chapter 7 bankruptcy

      https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/drobo-reportedly-files-ch-7-bankruptcy-signaling-the-end-of-a-simpler-nas

      You don't hear nearly as much about Drobo boxes as you used to, especially on sites like Ars Technica. We now have some news, but it isn't good.

      StorCentric, the holding company for the Drobo and Retrospect brands, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late June 2022. Now, AppleInsider reports that, based on an email sent by StorCentric, the bankruptcy shifted from reorganization-minded Chapter 11 to liquidation-focused Chapter 7 in late April.

      posted in News
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    • RE: Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!

      @scottalanmiller said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:

      This also flags ChatGPT because it misunderstood the topic.

      Like this?
      Interactive AI incorrectly describes Japan's Shiga gov. as 'Rurouni Kenshin' manga creator

      OTSU -- Shiga Gov. Taizo Mikazuki is a "manga artist" known for the popular work "Rurouni Kenshin" -- or at least that's the mistaken description one artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot would have users believe.

      When a Shiga Prefectural Government employee asked ChatGPT about Taizo Mikazuki it apparently explained that he was a "Japanese manga artist." Microsoft's Bing AI, meanwhile, correctly gave his job title as governor of Shiga Prefecture but provided an incorrect job history. The interactions serve as a reminder that chatbots may be providing a mixture of false information to users.

      posted in News
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    • RE: Miscellaneous Tech News

      @JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      Only myself to blame. I guess upgrade it is today.

      No upgrade.. some packages are hosed
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      posted in News
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    • RE: Miscellaneous Tech News

      @Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      , dual boot.

      Windows Dual boot left overs is one thing I want to clean up.

      posted in News
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    • RE: Miscellaneous Tech News

      @travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      @JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      @JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      Fedora 38 released a few days ago. Debating a clean install on my desktop instead of an upgrade.

      I've tinkered with so much crap, I just want to start clean.

      My dad installed it on release day and I got it up the day after. So far so good.

      I can upgrade right now.. but I want a clean system.
      but i was also lazy about organizing my dot files of some applications I want settings saved for..

      Only myself to blame. I guess upgrade it is today.

      Did you make /home a separate mount point? If so, just formant and install on the current root.

      No, but I had a separate mount point for documents and some things...

      posted in News
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    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      @Skyetel is still awesome..
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      posted in Water Closet
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