1. config a Queue in freepbx

usually you want to config a queue to resonpse customer if they want to reach some live agent, so we config a queue first

2. config an IVR in freepbx

2.1 first we will add some voice in the IVR, you’d like to use a recording software, just notice that in asterisk, it requires to use wav format and 16bit, 8000HZ mono

2.2 add a recording

you can either upload the recording you finished in your pc, or use a ext. in system to record a new one

2.3 add IVR

now queue and recording is ready, we could add the IVR

in announcement, we select the recording we just done, and also we added two options to accept customer input, when customer hits 1, he will go queue 900, and when hits 2, he will go to ext. 5001.

4. add misc

then we need add a misc so the dialer could reach the IVR

remember this feature code 800, we will use it when configing campaign in astercc, you could use some other code as you like, just make sure it’s unique in your freepbx

now we finished the job in freepbx, you’d like to dial 800 from any extension, it supposes to bring you to the IVR.

5. config the campaign in astercc

login as admin, and go to campaign, add a campaign as following

make sure in “Inexten” you put the same code as in “misc application”, and in “Queue number” put the same queue number as your freepbx queue

6. add agent user in astercrm

you’d like to add some account for your agents if you want them get a popup form when they start answer customer calls, go to “Extension” to add astercrm account for your agents, make sure the account “extension” match the ext. in your freepbx

7. start dialer and test agent

before start dialer, you’d like to check your astercc.conf

make sure this parameter is configed as

doublecheckcampaign = yes

then restart astercc daemons

/opt/asterisk/scripts/astercc/asterccd restart

ask your agent login and as admin go to dialer page, start the dialer

as an agent, he will get a popup when customer answered the call and hit 1 for queue

8. check report

you could go to dialedlist to check the campaign status

* to get a working freepbx and asterisk easily, you could choose  astercc box, elastix, pbxinaflash or trixbox

1 get sip peer status

astercctools will connect to your asterisk via AMI and execute command “sip show peers” then parse the result to table `sip_show_peers` in your mysql database.

2 get queue status

astercctools will also execute command “show queue” then parse the result to mysql tables, it would put the result to table `queue_stats`,`queue_name`,`queue_agent`,`queue_caller`

using astercctools in your asterisk application, you can read sip and queue status from mysql instead of connecting to asterisk each client seperately, so this would increace efficiency and stability.

here’s the structure of tables metioned above:

CREATE TABLE `sip_show_peers` (
`id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
`username` varchar(50) NOT NULL default ”,
`host` varchar(50) NOT NULL default ”,
`dyn` char(1) NOT NULL default ”,
`nat` char(1) NOT NULL default ”,
`port` varchar(5) NOT NULL default ”,
`status` varchar(20) NOT NULL default ”,
`freshtime` datetime NOT NULL default ’0000-00-00 00:00:00′,
`pbxserver` varchar(50) NOT NULL default ”,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

CREATE TABLE `queue_stats` (
queue_stats_id int(12) NOT NULL auto_increment,
uniqueid varchar(40) default NULL,
datetime datetime NOT NULL default ’0000-00-00 00:00:00′,
qname int(6) default NULL,
qagent int(6) default NULL,
qevent int(2) default NULL,
info1 varchar(40) default NULL,
info2 varchar(40) default NULL,
info3 varchar(40) default NULL,
src varchar(32) default NULL,
dst varchar(32) default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY  (queue_stats_id),
UNIQUE KEY unico (datetime,qname,qagent,qevent)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

CREATE TABLE `queue_name` (
`id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
`queuename` varchar(32) NOT NULL default ”,
`curcalls` int NOT NULL default 0,
`limit_type` varchar(32) NOT NULL default ”,
`strategy` varchar(32) NOT NULL default ”,
`holdtime` int NOT NULL default 0,
`w` int NOT NULL default 0,
`calls_answered` int NOT NULL default 0,
`calls_unanswered` int NOT NULL default 0,
`service_level` int NOT NULL default 0,
`t` int NOT NULL default 0,
`data` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,
`cretime` datetime NOT NULL default ’0000-00-00 00:00:00′,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
UNIQUE KEY unico (`queuename`)
) ENGINE=HEAP DEFAULT CHARSET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

CREATE TABLE `queue_agent` (
`id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
`queuename` varchar(32) NOT NULL default ”,
`agent` varchar(32) NOT NULL default ”,
`status` varchar(16) NOT NULL default ”,
`takencalls` int NOT NULL default 0,
`lastcall` int NOT NULL default 0,
`data` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,
`cretime` datetime NOT NULL default ’0000-00-00 00:00:00′,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=HEAP DEFAULT CHARSET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

CREATE TABLE `queue_caller` (
`id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
`queuename` varchar(32) NOT NULL default ”,
`corder` int NOT NULL default 0,
`caller` varchar(32) NOT NULL default ”,
`waittime` int NOT NULL default 0,
`prio` int NOT NULL default 0,
`data` varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,
`cretime` datetime NOT NULL default ’0000-00-00 00:00:00′,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=HEAP DEFAULT CHARSET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;