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OpenVox FD180 User Manual

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OpenVox Communication Co. Ltd.
Address: F/2, Building No.14,Shangsha Science & Technology Park,

No.9283,Binhe
Road, Futian District, ShenZhen ,Guangdong 518048,China
Tel:[phone],
Fax:[phone]

Email for Sales: [e-mail]
Email for Technical Support: [e-mail]
Business Hours: 9:00AM-18:00PM from Monday-Friday

Website： www.openvox.cn

Thank You for Choosing OpenVox Products!

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Contents

FD180 Description ................................................................................... 4

FD180 Features ........................................................................................ 5

FD180 Installation Guide .......................................................................... 6

Hardware Connection ...................................................................... 6

Device Driver Detection ................................................................... 6

FD180 Working Instruction ............................................................... 8

FD180 Software Installation ..................................................................... 9

Software Download .......................................................................... 9

Software Installation ........................................................................ 9

Explanation of Configuration Files .................................................. 10

Steps to Use ................................................................................... 11

Technical Support ................................................................................... 13

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FD180 Description

In most of the time, users need to reconnect the BRI/PRI line to a

redundant server maintained by UPS when main PBX Server is power off.

It may cause a little extra work for people who use simple and small PBX

servers. But for those who run complex PBXs in server rooms, it becomes

real problems.

How to eliminate this problem? The release of OpenVox FD180

failover box for BRI/PRI answers it. The FD180 can automatically switch

the BRI/PRI line to the redundant server when the power of the main

PBX server has been cut off and will automatically switch back to normal

when the power is on again. In this way, no more worries about getting

the BRI/PRI line connected to the redundant server when the main

server is down.

FD180 is controlled through an Asterisk loadable module

res_failover.so. This module keeps sending “running” signal to redundant

server when Asterisk is running. Once Asterisk is down or system power

is cut off, the module will not be able to send out the “running” signal to

FB40/FD40 and thus FD180 will automatically switch to the redundant

server.

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FD180 provides a reliable and flexible solution to Asterisk PBX.

FD180 Features

 FD180 contains 8 E1 / T1 / BRI ports.
 Easy installation; uses USB to connect computer or server. In order to

provide more stable power supply, a USB interface for two connected

hosts.

 Industry standard USB type B connector.
 USB 2.0 and 1.1 compliant.
 FD180 supports all OpenVox D series and B series cards,

Digium and other compatible digital cards. 

 Two indicator lights, red and green. Two lights, said an Asterisk work

normal, FD180 work. Only when green light said Asterisk hangs,

FD180 switch to the backup phone.

 Supports multiple FD180 devices in one system. Support the BRI or

PRI circuit connection.

 Each network interface is divided into four mouth end, A, B, C, D,

respectively, the interface of A and B are connected. Digital card.net

client any end of the connection of A and B, redundant one interface

can according to your needs, our TAP the card, to record, so as to

meet your requirement for functional diversification. C and D

connected to digital card of CPE, D is one end of the primary server, C

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is the standby server. For cable connection, LAN received any end of

the A or B, D connected to the main network，C connect backup

network.

FD180 Installation Guide

Hardware Connection

Device Driver Detection

The device driver of FD180 has been integrated with many Linux

distributions. Users can run the following command to see if the FD180

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has been recognized or detected by the system.

# dmesg | grep FTDI

User can also run the lsusb command to check if the FD180 device is

connected.

# lsusb

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FD180 Working Instruction

As shown:

When the PBX Server is ON and Asterisk works, the signal goes from:

1->LAN(red) 2->Main Network(green)

When the power of PBX cut off or Asterisk abnormal work, the signal

goes form:

1->LAN(red) 2->Redundant Network(purple)

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FD180 Software Installation

Before installation, make sure the host system (LINUX) is running

good, whether the DAHDI and Asterisk installation well, whether boards

(Analog cards) drivers have loaded into the system. If you buy our cards,

has not yet installed, you can go to our official website to download the

user manual, then install. After everything installed, and then into the

following steps.

Software Download

#wget

www.openvox.cn/download/drivers/failover/failover-1.0.1.tar.gz

Software Installation

1) Unzip the file

#tar –xvzf failover-1.0.1.tar.gz

#cd failover

2) Copy the file to res directory under asterisk

# cp res_failover.c /usr/src/asterisk-**/res/

3) Copy the configuration file to /etc/asterisk directory

# cp failover.conf /etc/asterisk/

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4)Compile and install

#cd /usr/src/asterisk-**/

#make

#make install

5)Reboot asterisk

#reboot

Explanation of Configuration Files

[openvox_failover_1]
device=/dev/ttyUSB0
; Kick the soft watchdog every 4000ms
; default value: 4000
; Between 100ms and 9000ms
;kick_time_interval=4000
;event_cmd=no
;event_cmd=logger
; default value: yes

autorun=yes

;[openvox_failover_2]
;device=/dev/ttyUSB1
;kick_time_interval=500
;event_cmd=logger
;autorun=yes

 [openvox_failover_1]：Name of FD180 Device, to distinguish from

different devices, a must to configuration;

 device=/dev/ttyUSB0：Name of USB device that FD180 uses, a must

to configuration;

 kick_time_interval：the time interval of software watch dog; the

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default time is 4000ms, user can customize the time with 100ms for

Minimum and 9000ms for Maximum;

 event_cmd：event command, the default is logger, it will record the

FD180 status in system log;

 autorun：this decides if FD180 will start when asterisk boots; the

default is yes which means the FD180 starts when asterisk boots; if

no, the FD180 will not start when asterisk boots and user may need

manually boot the device by running failover start command.

Steps to Use

1)Start asterisk

# asterisk –vvvgc

2)Start FD180 device

*CLI> failover start

3)Stop FD180 device

*CLI> failover stop

4)Show FD180 device information

*CLI> failover show

5)Reload FD180 device configuration file

*CLI> failover stop Before reload the configuration file, must

stop all FD180 device

*CLI> failover reload Reload the configuration file

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6) Check the connection

*CLI>pri show spans

7)Reboot DAHDI

*CLI>dahdi restart

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Technical Support

If you meet any technical problems when using OpenVox products, you

can check our Forum for help or contact us directly be the following

ways:

i. BBS feedback problems

You can put your issued to our BBS encountered technical problems,

we will in the shortest possible time solve the problem of you

mentioned.

http://bbs.openvox.cn/

ii. Email Support

You can email your technical problems to the following emails:

[e-mail]

Unless it is an emergency, this is always the most efficient way to get

support.

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