sometimes you have a fresh sever and you are looking forward to create like 100 or 200 or even 1000 extensions on the freepbx server in one operation .
say that you want to create all of those extensions with specific config like :
putting them in specific context
enable/disable recording
passwords length of those extension
enable/disable Voicemail
more and more than that …….
all of us agree that this will be a painful job if you do it manually .
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but ………
fortunately , freepbx do support that to be done automatically and in 1 step using Bulk extension feature .
you can verify that below :
now the 1st trick we gonna do is :
we will create only 1 extension on the system and we will choose the settings that we will need for the other extensions that will be duplicated .
so lets create extension 100 with settings below :
now , we have that extension created and exist in the system :
localhost*CLI> sip show usersUsername Secret Accountcode Def.Context ACL Forcerport100 www.seldomtuts.com from-internal Yes Nolocalhost*CLI> sip show peersName/username Host Dyn Forcerport ACL Port Status Description100 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN1 sip peers [Monitored: 0 online, 1 offline Unmonitored: 0 online, 0 offline]localhost*CLI>
now after we created that extentsion, we will go back to freepbx and go to Bulk extension panel and do “export extensions” as below :
once we have export done , it will export a file as csv file and we can edit it using microsoft excell App.
if we open it , we will find a long options in that cvs file on a horizontal direction….but not all of those options make sense to us .
lets have a quick look @ it :
the Action column is Blank for now , we will discuss about it later on how will be get benefit form it.
as we see above , there is extensions # , pwd , CID …..etc.
for a moment , if i want to create i huge # of extensions i would be more interested with extension # , pwd , CID , VM , Record Calls or not …..
so ……all what I’m gonna do right now is :
i will copy the most settings from the column that we exported so that it help us in the duplication process ….so follow me on the next print screen :
and the same options you copy paste for the others in the row …so all what you have to put in mind is the important tabs like i higlited in the yellow color in the pictures above …. other than that you can copy paste it the same from the other cells .
for a test i only configured up to 30 extensions form range 100-128 .
once you do all for the other cells in the cvs file .
we go to the action and put with it “add” and then we save that csv file .
now we go to freepbx again , Bulk extension and choose file , then Load that file .
the result should be like below :
now lets verify the extension that were added :
Verification From CLI console :
localhost*CLI> sip show peers
Name/username Host Dyn Forcerport ACL Port Status Description
100 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
101 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
102 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
103 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
104 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
105 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
106 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
107 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
108 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
109 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
110 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
111 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
112 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
113 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
114 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
115 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
116 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
117 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
118 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
119 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
120 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
121 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
122 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
123 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
124 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
125 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
126 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
127 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
128 (Unspecified) D A 0 UNKNOWN
29 sip peers [Monitored: 0 online, 29 offline Unmonitored: 0 online, 0 offline]
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