- Hi everyone, I'm Mary Cheney.
Thanks for joining us and our webinar on converting
a FreePBX Appliance to PBXact.
Let's get started.
So, we're gonna discuss some key benefits to converting,
one of them being the Commercial modules
that are available.
There is a whole bunch that you get
with the conversion from FreePBX to PBXact.
Software assurance,
and you're going to be operating on a more secure network.
So we're gonna go through a couple quick steps
before you do your conversion.
First you will need to have made a purchase
for the FreePBX to PBXact conversion
for your FreePBX Appliance system
from an authorized Sangoma distributor like VoIP Supply.
Once this purchase has been made you'll receive confirmation
that the order was processed and you can proceed
to the setup.
There is a special note here,
and I want to bring close attention to this,
that you need to be on version 10.13.66-18 or newer.
And if you're not, you're gonna wanna go through these
in consecutive upgrades until you get to that version
before you do this conversion.
Okay, so the next steps that you're gonna need to follow.
You're gonna have to log in to an SSH.
For this example we're gonna us PuTTY.
And once you're logged into that you're gonna use root user
and the following command that you see on this screen.
Once we do that the conversion will happen
kind of behind the scenes.
There is another command that we can run
to verify that everything has passed,
but I do recommend you waiting a couple minutes.
There is a three to four minute recommendation
to wait before you run this, just to make sure
that everything on the back end is done.
So now that we have the steps here,
let's get into the actual conversion process.
Okay, so now we're gonna open up PuTTY here.
We gotta put our IP address into it.
And then we'll open it.
Now we're gonna use our commands in here.
So we're gonna type in root.
Our password is gonna be sangoma.
And now we're gonna use our command fwconsole sa u.
Which is located back on that slide
if you forget when you're doing this.
And, like I said, you're gonna need to give it
a couple minutes after we run this
to make sure everything is verified.
Before we did this conversion,
we also added some call extensions into our FreePBX.
I wanna just show you that those call extensions
and other call routing that you have set up
will maintain and stay the same for you.
So you're not gonna lose those things.
So now that we have run this, it looks like it's updating.
And it looks like it ran here
so we're gonna pop over to our browser.
And this is what you should see now.
We're gonna type in admin as our username.
And the password is admin.
And as soon as we go in here and do that
we should see our new interface.
Viola.
So, one thing I will go in to just show you
are our call extensions.
There's also a bunch of the advanced modules
that you can look at.
There's a ton of stuff that you can play around with
once you're in here.
But I do want to highlight the fact that
the extensions that were in our original account
are still carried over into our PBXact account.
And that pretty much wraps up the conversion process.
So I'd like to thank you all for joining us.
I know this was kinda quick and sweet
but it is seriously that easy,
and that's what we were trying to show you here.
As always, if you have any questions
about anything that we talked about today
you can call VoIP Supply or visit us on our website.
Thank you again and we look forward to hearing from you
and have a great day everybody.
Bye.