[Asterisk-Users] Migration to Asterisk - Running off of Merlin Legend system

[denon]

At 04:11 PM 7/3/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>We currently have a Merlin Legend system.  The voicemail is falling apart
>(with the transition to a 10 digit timestamp on Sept. 8, 2001, the system
>locked up and refused to take calls; the official solution is to change
>the system time back to a year with a matching calendar).  We are in the
>process of preparing the network infrastructure to support a VoIP system
>with Asterisk, but won't be there for a few months.  We'd like to go ahead
>and replace the voicemail system with Asterisk now, and as we're ready,
>drop the Merlin system.
>
>My questions:
>
>Right now, the voicemail system (and auto-attendant) are connected to the
>switch by 4 analog lines.  Logic says that these are FXS cards in the
>switch, like any other extension.  The switch handles an incoming call and
>transfers it to the auto-attendant.  How would such a call be identified
>to be dropped in the appropriate context?

Unless I'm mistaken, you just name those lines appropriately, then have 
matching extensions in your extensions.conf, like any other trunk.  The 
difference being, these lines go straight to an auto attend.  You could 
pass the extension to it via a dialed string, if need be.



>When the phone switch fails to reach someone at an extension, it transfers
>them to the voicemail system.  How could these calls be identified as
>different from an incoming call to the auto-attendant?  How is the
>appropriate mailbox or extension identified?
>

The dialed extension, or maybe a callerid string..

-denon

>Thanks,
>
>Steve
>
>
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>Steve Creel                                screel at turbs.com
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