The Maintenance add-on is a commercial add-on that requires a license to work to its full potential. You can acquire a license separately just for the Maintenance add-on, or it also comes included with any of our licensing plan subscriptions. To start using the Maintenance add-on, you must install it through the add-ons module under Admin > Add-Ons > Add-Ons. Once the add-on is installed, refresh your browser and go to Admin > Tools > Maintenance. If you installed the Multi-Tenant add-on module, the Maintenance add-on is automatically installed.

Here you can Enable the Maintenance for specific Tenants and the Main System. You can configure the time in days to Delete the Oldest CDR, Recordings, Voicemails, and SMS messages. So all call recordings, voicemails, CDR records, and SMS messages will be deleted if they are equal to or older than the set amount of days. You can set the time in seconds to consider the deletion of short call recordings. So call recordings shorter or equal to the specified time in seconds will be deleted. You can change the Audio Quality and Convert Recordings from WAV to MP3 files.

The maintenance can be run manually by clicking the Execute Now button in the lower left-hand corner, or you can Schedule the maintenance to run automatically using a Cron Profile. Once again, Cron Profiles can be created under PBX > Tools > Cron Profiles.

Once you have the maintenance set as you would like, click on Save and then Apply Changes.

Here, you can create multiple Backup Profiles, that will generate backup files you can export and use on your VitalPBX installation. For this, enter a Name to identify the Backup Profile. You can add a brief comment to describe what the backup includes. You can select if you want to back up the configurations for any Sonata Suite and VitXi add-on application. Then, you can select to include the CDR Records, Call Recordings, Voicemails, and/or Faxes. Since this is a profile you can run multiple times, you can set a limit on how many backups you wish to keep stored on your server at any time. You can automate the backup creation process by setting a Cron Profile on the Run Automatically option. With your settings configured, click on Save.

You will now find the Backup Profile on the list in the upper right-hand corner. If you enter your Backup Profile again, you can edit what the profile contains, and run the backup manually by clicking on Run Backup Now! in the lower left-hand corner.

Whenever you run a backup, you will see the backup files listed on the Backups List. Here, you will see information on when the backup was created, the backup file name, the VitalPBX version of the backup, and some actions. From the actions column, you can download the backup, delete it, or restore from the backup.

Note: You must make sure your server has enough storage to store the backup files. Especially, if you are backing up your call recordings. As call recordings can take a lot of space, we recommend you back them up in a separate server, by either mounting a NAS or SAN server to the call recording directory at /var/spool/asterisk/monitor or using an SCP or SFTP application to download the call recordings directly. You can then upload them to the VitalPBX server after you restore from your backup.

To restore from a backup that you created in a separate server, you must go back to Admin > Tools > Backup and Restore, and click on Import Backup in the lower left-hand corner. This will allow you to select a backup file you have on your system, and select what you want to import from the backup file.

Once you have selected the backup file, and what you wish to import from the backup file, click on the Restore button in the lower right-hand corner.

With this, you are now able to backup and restore your VitalPBX configurations.

root@debian:~# asterisk -rvvvvvvv

Or simply

root@debian:~# a

With VitalPBX you can view the Asterisk CLI from the Web UI, allowing for a quick look. Go to

PBX > Tools > PBX CLI.

Here you can run any Asterisk command from the Web UI. This will allow you to monitor your VitalPBX’s Asterisk layer easily from the web.

Commands can be entered from the text field on the top. As you type them, suggestions for the command string will appear. To run the command, click on the Enter Arrow at the end of the text field.

The outcome of the command will be displayed in the black box below the text field.

With this, you can run any Asterisk command from the web interface.

This is a simple module that will list all devices that have a weak password. You can see the Extension number, the Device for this extension, the Password, and the Password Level.

This will help you identify the devices on your system that are weak so you can address them. We recommend using auto-generated passwords for devices to keep them secure.