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Chapter 12, Relational Database Integration
Walks you through setting up Asterisk to work with ODBC databases.
Chapter 13, Managing Your Asterisk System
Discusses issues regarding how to best manage your Asterisk phone system, in-
cluding CDR, logs, and prompts.
Chapter 14, Potpourri
Briefly covers what is, in fact, a rich and varied cornucopia of incredible features
and functions—all part of the Asterisk phenomenon.
Chapter 15, Asterisk: The Future of Telephony
Predicts a future where open source telephony completely transforms an industry
desperately in need of a revolution.
Appendix A, VoIP Channels
Appendix B, Application Reference
Appendix C, AGI Reference
Appendix D, Configuration Files
Appendix E, Asterisk Dialplan Functions
Appendix F, Asterisk Manager Interface Actions
Appendix G, An Example of func_odbc

Software

This book is focused on documenting Asterisk Version 1.4; however, many of the con-
ventions and information in this book are version-agnostic. Linux is the operating
system we have run and tested Asterisk on, with a leaning toward Red Hat syntax. We
decided that while Red Hat–based distributions may not be the preferred choice of
everyone, their layout and utilities are nevertheless familiar to many experienced Linux
administrators.

Conventions Used in This Book

The following typographical conventions are used in this book:
Italic
Indicates new terms, URLs, email addresses, filenames, file extensions, pathnames,
directories, and Unix utilities.
Constant width
Indicates commands, options, parameters, and arguments that must be substituted
into commands.

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