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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.

      0_1522634471740_79f60152-cbf8-45b9-82d3-e8e227001b00-image.png

      posted in IT Discussion pi-hole content filtering dns
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      JaredBusch
    • 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: NodeBB Plugins

      just updated my instance to current and they still work.
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      posted in Platform and Category Issues
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    • RE: ZeroTier rules to limit freelancer access

      @Pete-S said in ZeroTier rules to limit freelancer access:

      @dafyre said in ZeroTier rules to limit freelancer access:

      @Pete-S said in ZeroTier rules to limit freelancer access:

      @JaredBusch said in ZeroTier rules to limit freelancer access:

      Because once a user is in said server, via any secure method, you need to have a solution inside the network to prevent access to any other server from inside.

      That makes sense.

      However that can be as simple as using each servers firewall to block rdp/ssh from everything but zerotier.
      That prevents moving horizontally from one server to another.

      Again after I've connected to SERVER5 via ZT, how do you prevent me from accessing SERVER1-4 and SERVER6-15 -- or any other internal resource since the server I'm connecting to is already inside your network's main firewall?

      Let's call zerotier a VPN for simplicity and let's say we want to control ssh network access.

      You prevent network access on ssh from SERVER1 to SERVER2 by setting the OS firewall on SERVER 2 to only allow ssh from IPs on the VPN subnet.

      That means you can reach each servers ssh port from VPN, but not from anywhere else. So if you ssh into one server through VPN, you can't ssh from there to the next server.

      Right, which is why I asked the OP to clarify what he meant by server access.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: NodeBB Plugins

      @scottalanmiller said in NodeBB Plugins:

      Everything that I stopped using is because they went away

      I have not looked at the code, but I assum, that the GUI only shows plugins that have the right version info updated in them.

      posted in Platform and Category Issues
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    • RE: NodeBB Plugins

      @scottalanmiller said in NodeBB Plugins:

      At one point during an update they couldn't handle the update, I had to remove and reinstall, and the plugins were no longer available.

      You only had to disable them. I went through the same.

      Since you completely removed them, you can still install anything from command line.

      cd /you/nodebb/directory
      npm install nodebb-plugin-imgur
      npm install nodebb-plugin-ns-embed
      
      posted in Platform and Category Issues
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    • RE: NodeBB Plugins

      Sure, I have a version warning, but it is only a warning and they cause no issues.

      2023-02-02T19:25:11.613Z [4567/1764] - warn: [plugins/load] The following plugins may not be compatible with your version of NodeBB. This may cause unintended behaviour or crashing. In the event of an unresponsive NodeBB caused by this plugin, run `./nodebb reset -p PLUGINNAME` to disable it.
        * nodebb-plugin-imgur
        * nodebb-plugin-imgbed
        * nodebb-plugin-ns-embed
        * nodebb-plugin-shortcuts
        * nodebb-plugin-dbsearch
      
      
      posted in Platform and Category Issues
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    • NodeBB Plugins

      @scottalanmiller said in Local Storage vs SAN ...:

      @JaredBusch said in Local Storage vs SAN ...:

      I meant to click reply to your prior post, the one with the link and no video preview. But my point stands.

      That's not an issue of a broken plugin. I cant find any plugin that does that. They removed the youTube plugins from the repos.

      Funny that, I mean i'm not 100% current but still.

      Embed:
      https://github.com/NicolasSiver/nodebb-plugin-ns-embed
      ce98d992-1959-4431-9c79-f96ff559b2eb-image.png

      Imgur (which I also noticed you stopped using:
      https://github.com/barisusakli/nodebb-plugin-imgur
      fb4d72e0-d214-41d5-bb5f-10d4abb73705-image.png

      I also don't have the weird double emoji thing going on like happens here.
      Emoji:
      78ef99fb-ac82-4aa3-82c1-27ecd94aa416-image.png

      posted in Platform and Category Issues nodebb plugins
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    • RE: Local Storage vs SAN ...

      @scottalanmiller said in Local Storage vs SAN ...:

      @JaredBusch said in Local Storage vs SAN ...:

      @scottalanmiller said in Local Storage vs SAN ...:

      It's taking a long time to upload 😉

      You know, there are no issues with plugins on my nodebb systems. You should really look closer at what your errors are.

      I'm not uploading it HERE. I'm uploading it to YouTube.

      I meant to click reply to your prior post, the one with the link and no video preview. But my point stands.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Local Storage vs SAN ...

      @scottalanmiller said in Local Storage vs SAN ...:

      It's taking a long time to upload 😉

      You know, there are no issues with plugins on my nodebb systems. You should really look closer at what your errors are.

      posted in IT Discussion
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      JaredBusch
    • RE: ZeroTier rules to limit freelancer access

      @SenseiWilliams said in ZeroTier rules to limit freelancer access:

      I'm currently doing a POC on ZeroTier for my company to replace an aging Fortinet solution. I have ZeroTier setup on a couple servers and a couple test machines. So far everything is great and working well - at least until I started looking at flow rules. Here is the problem I'm looking to solve with a flow rule...

      I have 50 Employees, 15 servers (server1 thru server15) and 10 Freelancers. The employees should be able to access all 15 servers. The freelancers should only be able to access servers 2-7. Can someone give me an idea of what the ruleset would look like? Thank you in adavance.

      This has nothing to do with ZeroTier.

      Let's walk back. What do you mean by access to a server?

      RDP? SSH?

      Because once a user is in said server, via any secure method, you need to have a solution inside the network to prevent access to any other server from inside.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: How to use different accounts on the same website/service with profiles

      @Obsolesce said in How to use different accounts on the same website/service with profiles:

      Similar to Chrome...

      Because it is basically chrome.

      posted in IT Discussion
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