IPBrick - Version 5.2 Installation Manual · 2019-01-03 · Chapter 1 Purpose of this document This manual contains important and useful instructions about IPBrick installation procedure

IPBrick - Version 5.2Installation Manual

iPortalMais - Solucoes de Engenharia para Internet e Redes, Lda.

February 2010

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Copyright c©iPortalMaisAll rights reserved. February 2010.

The information in this manual is subject to change without prior notice. Thepresented explanations, technical data, configurations and recommendations areprecise and trustful. Nevertheless, they have no expressed or implied guarantees.

Installation Manual - Version 5.2 iPortalMais - 2009

Contents

1 Purpose of this document 5

2 Before Getting Started 7

3 IPBrick installation 93.1 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93.2 Installation Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

3.2.1 Installation from a USB Pen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113.3 Installation Boot options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123.4 Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143.5 Customized Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

3.5.1 Custom Partitioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163.5.2 Software RAID installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

4 Managing the IPBrick 194.1 Network configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194.2 Connecting to IPBrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

4.2.1 Direct connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204.2.2 Connecting through a hub or a switch . . . . . . . . . . . . 214.2.3 Network Connectivity Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

4.3 Logins and Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234.3.1 IPBrick - Web Interface (GUI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234.3.2 IPBrick - Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234.3.3 IPBrick - Email copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244.3.4 IPBrick - Kaspersky AntiSpam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244.3.5 IPBrick - Kaspersky notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244.3.6 IPBrick - Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254.3.7 IPBrick - Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254.3.8 PostgreSQL - DataBase Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254.3.9 MySQL - DataBase Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254.3.10 Arkeia - Backup Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254.3.11 Bacula - Backup Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264.3.12 Anti-Spam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264.3.13 MyIPBrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264.3.14 Webmail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264.3.15 IPBrick - Instant Messaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274.3.16 IPBrick - Callmanager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

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4.4 Licence activation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274.4.1 Licence request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274.4.2 Licence reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284.4.3 Licence expiration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284.4.4 Licence Activation code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

5 More information 315.1 Technical support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315.2 Useful Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

6 Appendix A - Appliance IPBrick.GT 336.1 IPBbrick.GT connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336.2 Analog communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346.3 Digital communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

6.3.1 BRI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356.3.2 PRI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36


Chapter 1

Purpose of this document

This manual contains important and useful instructions about IPBrick installationprocedure and endeavours to guide you through all the necessary steps to itscompletion.


6 Purpose of this document


Chapter 2

Before Getting Started

Please note:

• When booting from the IPBrick CD, the software installation begins imme-diately.

• Because the System’s Boot Disk is going to be formatted, this warning willappear:ALL THE DATA ON THIS COMPUTER WILL BE LOST WITH-OUT FURTHER NOTICE.

• There will be an active DHCP server after the IPBrick installation.


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Chapter 3

IPBrick installation

The installation of an IPBrick server is made using a single CD.

3.1 Requirements

• IPBrick installation CD (Bootable CD);

• PC Intel (x86 or superior) or AMD compatible;

• HDD: a minimum of 20GB of disk space (total size of the hard disk drive);

• BIOS Bootable CD support;

• Network interface card (Ethernet 100Base-TX).

3.2 Installation Procedure

1. Insert the IPBrick bootable CD into the PC’s CD-Rom drive;

2. Enable booting from CD on the PC BIOS;

3. Boot the PC using the IPBrick auto install CD;

4. The IPBrick logo will appear and also a command prompt boot: (Figure3.1)

ATTENTION!

This installation will destroy all data in your hardrive.

Remove this CD-ROM if you don’t want to install IPBRICK onto this hard drive.

Press F1 for help, or ENTER to

boot:

5. Fifteen seconds later the automatic installation process starts.

These are the performed actions:


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• Note: If you want to stop the auto-install timer, please type anythingor press a key at the console.

• Warning regarding the begining of the installation process.

• Kernel image loading.

• After startup, the auto-instalation’s script will attempt to detect thecomputer’s hardware configuration where the IPBrick is being installed.

Starting system log daemon

Loading modules

Creating devices

Setting up keyboard

Searching CDROM

CDROM Found in: ___

MOUNTING CDROM

6. After detecting all the hardware devices, a partition table will be created onthe hard drive.

STARTING HARD DISK DRIVE...

HDD FOUND

USING: ___

CHECKING DISK SIZE...

RESIZING HOMEs to FULL disk size

WRITING PARTITION TABLE TO HDD...

7. After this process the computer reboots.

GOING TO REBOOT NOW!

DO NOT (NOT) REMOVE IPBRICK RECOVER CD

GOING TO REBOOT NOW!

Note: If more than 3 reboots take place during automatic installyou must abort the installation. This is a sign that something wentwrong during the installation and that the system has entered arepeat cycle of the boot procedure.

8. The auto install process starts once more, detecting that the partition tablehas already been applied to the disk.

HDD PARTITIONED

PROCEEDING WITH INSTALLATION

9. The partition preparation takes place.


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FORMATING HDD...

This step can take some time please wait...

FORMATING HDD /dev/___1






FORMATING SWAP

MOUNTING NEW FILESYSTEM...

10. The software installation:

INSTALLING...

This step can take some time please wait...

INSTALLING DRIVE /cdrom/data/drive1.dat

...

INSTALLING DRIVE /cdrom/data/drive6.dat

System is now installed.

11. The installation process ends with the CD-ROM’s ejection. Before the CD-ROM ejects, the following message will be displayed:

UMOUNTING CDROM

REMOVE CDROM BEFORE REBOOTING YOUR SYSTEM

DO NOT RESTART SYSTEM WITH IPBRICK RECOVER CD

UMOUNTING ALL

END Installation scripts.

..

12. Remove the installation CD and reboot the computer;

13. During the system boot make sure that the BIOS is configured to boot fromthe hard disk drive (HDD);

14. After the BIOS boot up sequence, it will display the boot loader (Grub);

15. Next, the kernel startup messages will appear. The kernel startup sequenceshould end with the following lines:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 ipbrick tty1

ipbrick login:

3.2.1 Installation from a USB Pen

It’s possible to create a portable version of IPBrick by creating an image of theboot CD-Rom in a USB pen, this way you can install IPBrick’s software withouthaving to depend exclusively on the CD.



Requirements

• The pendrive has to have at least 1GB of total capacity.

• A PC with a USB slot

Note: If you have in the pen any data you wish to keep, please save a copyelsewhere, because in order to mount the image the pen will be formatted and youwill loose all of its contents.

Creating the portable version in a USB pen

To create the portable version of IPBrick’s software, please follow these steps:

1. Insert IPBrick’s boot CD in the PC’s CD-Rom Drive

2. Restart the PC

3. The IPBrick logo will appear. Type in this command:

• ipbrick pendrive

• ! Attention !: If you don’t type straight away the commandlisted above, IPBrick boot CD will automatically start Instal-lation procedures and all data contained in the PC will belost.

4. Wait for the prompt to insert the USB pen.

5. Insert the pen.

6. Press any key.

7. Please wait for the procedure to end.

8. The system will unmount the pen and you can remove it.

9. Remove the CD

10. Press any key to reboot the PC

You’ll now be able to use the pen to install IPBrick in another machine, simplyconfigure the BIOS of that PC to boot correctly from the USB port.

3.3 Installation Boot options

As you have seen the IPBrick installation is automatic but if the F1 key is pressedyou will get some additional information about boot options and parameters (Fig-ure 3.1).

• Pressing F1 will display the interface shown at Figure 3.2;


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Figure 3.1: IPBrick Installation - Boot

Figure 3.2: IPBrick Installation - Help Index



• By pressing F2 you will get an interface with options on boot methods (Figure3.3);

• By pressing F3 you will get an interface with special boot parameters (Figure3.4).

3.4 Error Messages

During the installation process some messages may be shown.

The critical warnings are:

• The installation scripts do not detect the CDROM drive:

CDROM NOT FOUND : Aborting INSTALL Scripts (NOT OK)

• The installation scripts do not detect the hard disk drive (HDD):

NO HARD DISK FOUND... (NOT OK)

ABORTING INSTALLATION... (NO HDD)

• The hard disk drive does not have the minimum size required:

NOT ENOUGH SPACE ON HDD

DISK SIZE: XXXX MegaBytes

NEEDED CAPACITY: YYYY MegaBytes

NOT ENOUGH SPACE ON HDD

Critical errors are due to:

• Physical hardware failure: the disk does not exist or it has a wrong configu-ration (e.g: IDE bus, check for MASTER and/or SLAVE).

• Wrong BIOS configuration: Please check that the hardware is correctly con-figured (HDD, RAID controllers).

• If all of the above is correct, then the IPBrick CD that you have shouldn’tsupport your specific hardware configuration. Please send your hardwaredescription and configuration by mail to [email protected]. You will becontacted by the IPBrick Technical Department.

3.5 Customized Installation

If you insert a Pendrive into the server before installation, it’s possible to make acustomized installation of IPBrick.


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Figure 3.3: IPBrick Installation - Boot methods

Figure 3.4: IPBrick Installation - Special boot parameters



3.5.1 Custom Partitioning

Before the installation process, you need to create a file called parts.dat in thependrive root path, with the needed partition table structure (available for Down-load in the Documentation section). Next, the structure is presented along withthe explanation:

750 -> Represents the /root partition. Fixed size

1024 -> Represents the /swap partition. Fixed size

2500 -> Represents the /usr partition. Fixed size

0 -> Do not change!

3500 -> Represents the /var partition. Fixed size

1000 -> Represents the /opt partition. Fixed size

100 -> Represents the /home1 partition. Minimum size

100 -> Represents the /home2 partition. Minimum size

7 -> Do not change!

The remaining disk space will be alocated in partitions /home1 and /home2.

3.5.2 Software RAID installation

You can have RAID1 configuration done by software. Before the installation pro-cess, you should create another file called ipbrick.cfg in the pendrive root path.Next, the structure is presented along with the explanation:

CONFIGSOFTRAID=1 -> Activates the software RAID

SOFTRAIDHDD[0]="sda" -> It’s the disk 1 device

SOFTRAIDHDD[1]="sdb" -> It’s the disk 2 device

SOFTRAIDPARTSUF="p" -> Do not change!

RAIDTYPE=1 -> It’s the RAID type. Only this raid type is supported!

You should know specifically the correct designation of hard drives devicesbefore the file creation, which depends of the used technology: IDE, SCSI, SATAetc.

Error messages

The typical error messages that can be presented are:

• Message 1: The system cannot find hard disks and proceed with installation.This is a critical error because no disks were detected, so it’s impossible toinstall the system.

NO HARD DISK FOUND... (NOT OK)

ABORTING INSTALLATION... (NO HDD)

• Message 2: The installation is in the second boot, the RAID was created inthe first boot but it can’t initialize. It’s a critical error because the systemknows that a RAID is configured but it can’t be initialized.


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Failed to assemble software raid

ABORTING INSTALLATION...

• Message 3: The installation is in the first boot and it unsuccessfully tries tocreate the RAID. The system detects the RAID configurations in the penbut cannot create the raid:

Failed to config software raid


• Message 4: Here the installation is almost done and the Boot Loader is beingconfigured but the Boot Loader is not installed properly. So it can be critical- the machine could not boot because the Boot Loader was unsuccessfullyinstalled.

ERROR installing boot loader.


Note: The files must be saved in ASCII format. If you want to test that theyare, you can do file <filename> in Linux console.




Chapter 4

Managing the IPBrick

4.1 Network configuration

The IPBrick default network configurations are as follows:

• Private network interface card (eth0)

– IP: 192.168.69.199

– Network: 192.168.69.0/24

• Public network interface card (eth1)

– IP: 10.0.0.253

– Network: 10.0.0.252/30

• Gateway: 10.0.0.254 (eth1)

• Hostname: ipbrick.domain.com

4.2 Connecting to IPBrick

The computer where you are installing IPBrick may have one, two or more networkinterface cards (NIC).The first NIC that IPBrick will detect, during the kernel startup sequence, will bethe private one (also known as internal). It is this NIC that we will work with inthe following sections.

There are two ways to Access IPBrick:

• Direct connection using a crossover network cable

• Connecting through a hub or a switch


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Figure 4.1: Direct connection between an IPBrick and a PC

4.2.1 Direct connection

It is necessary to connect a crossover network cable to the NIC of the managementstation (e.g. a laptop PC) and to the NIC on the IPBricks computer. (Figure4.1).

In this scenario, the network configuration of the management station may beset to receive automatic IP address and DNS configuration - DHCP client.

In the following configuration example we will be using a laptop computerinstalled with the MS Windows XP operating sistem.

The configuration received from the DHCP is:

• IP Address: 192.168.69.64 to 192.168.69.95;

• Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0;

• Default Gateway: 192.168.69.199;

• DNS Server: 192.168.69.199.

Procedure to set the dinamic IP configuration (DHCP)

1. Press the [windows] key

2. Choose My Network Places

3. Choose Show network connections

4. Right-click on the Local network connection ıcon and select Properties

5. In the next dialog window, select TCP/IP and clik on Properties

6. In the next dialog window, select ”Get automatic IP configuration” and ”GetDNS servers address automaticaly”

7. Close the ”TCP/IP Properties” and the ”Network Properties” windows tosave the configuration changes.

If the management station was already configured with the configuration de-scribed above then you should proceed as follows:


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Procedure to renew the IP address

1. Press keys [windows]+[R] (both at the same time)

2. Type cmd and press [ENTER] (or push the OK button)

3. Type ipconfig /release and press [ENTER]

4. Type ipconfig /renew and press [ENTER]

5. Type ipconfig /all and press [ENTER]

6. To close this window, type exit and press [ENTER]

To check your IP address, please proceed as follows:

How to check the IP address


2. Type cmd and press [ENTER]

3. Type ipconfig /all and press [ENTER]


If at the end of this procedure you still don’t have an IP address like the onedescribed above:

1. Check for network connection (link, green light on) at the management sta-tion’s network interface card. If you don’t have a link, please check if yournetwork cable is in good shape and if it really is a crossover network cable.

2. If IPBrick computer has two network interface cards, please connect yournetwork cable to the other network interface card. Repeat the Procedureto renew the IP address.

4.2.2 Connecting through a hub or a switch

Connect IPBricks network interface card to a hub or to a switch (Figure4.2). Themanagement station must be connected to the same hub or switch (alternativelyone must assure connectivity from the management station to that hub or switch).

In the following example we will use a management station running MS Win-dows XP operating system:



Figure 4.2: Connecting IPBrick to a PC with a switch

Procedure to configure static IP address

1. Press the [windows] key

2. Select My Network Places

3. Select Show network connections

4. Right-click on Local area network connection and select Properties.

5. In the dialog window select TCP/IP and push the Properties button.

6. In the dialog window, fill the following fields:

• IP Address: 192.168.69.1

• Network Mask: 255.255.255.0

• Gateway: 192.168.69.199

• Primary DNS Server: 192.168.69.199

• Close this window pushing the Ok button

7. Close the Network Properties Window pushing the Ok button to save thechanges.

4.2.3 Network Connectivity Test

To test the connection between the management station (in this example a MSWindows OS running computer) and the IPBricks server, please proceed as follows:


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Procedure to test network connectivity


2. Type cmd and press [ENTER]

3. Type ping 192.168.69.199 and press [ENTER]

4. You should get the following lines from the ping utility:

Answer from 192.168.69.199: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64




Ping statistics for 192.168.69.199:

Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0


With the connection set, the IPBrick server may be accessed using any webbrowser (e.g.: MS Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Chrome).The URL address is : https://ipbrick.domain.com or https://192.168.69.199.

4.3 Logins and Passwords

4.3.1 IPBrick - Web Interface (GUI)

• URLhttps://192.168.69.199

https://ipbrick.domain.com

• Name: admin

• Password: 123456

4.3.2 IPBrick - Console

• root : R0laBill

• operator: L1opardo

MARK: These passwords must be changed!



4.3.3 IPBrick - Email copy

There are two email accounts destinated to the IPBrick received and sent messagesstorage. Initially the query (POP or IMAP) of this messages is done by:

Sent Email

• Login: sentmail

• Password: L1opardo

Received Email

• Login: receivedmail


Note: After the IPBrick installation this service is not active, but it can be acti-vated later through the web interface in IPBrick.C- >> E-Mail- >> Mail Copy.

4.3.4 IPBrick - Kaspersky AntiSpam

IPBrick has a system email account named spam, that is used at Kaspersky An-tispam. The idea is to get all the filtered spam in that specific account. Initiallythe query (POP or IMAP) of this messages is done by:

• Login: spam


Note: These notifications only exist if IPBrick has the Kaspersky AntiSpamlicence.

4.3.5 IPBrick - Kaspersky notifications

IPBrick has an email account that receives the Kaspersky Antivirus notificationsabout actualizations and detected viruses. Initially the query (POP or IMAP) ofthis messages is done by:

• Login: kaspersky


Note: These notifications only exist if IPBrick has some kind of Kasperskylicencing:

• Kaspersky for File Server;

• Kaspersky for Email Server;

• Kaspersky for Proxy.


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4.3.6 IPBrick - Calendar

• URLhttp://calendar.domain.com

The access to this service is granted to all IPBrick users. Each one must use itsown login and password.

4.3.7 IPBrick - Contacts

• URLhttp://contacts.domain.com

• Login and administration password:administrator : 123

The access to this service is initially limited to the ”administrator” user. Thisuser will grant access and permissions to the other IPBrick users. Each user shoulduse its own login and password to authenticate.

4.3.8 PostgreSQL - DataBase Server

• URLhttp://pgsqladmin.domain.com

• Login and administration password:sqlserver : sqlserver

4.3.9 MySQL - DataBase Server

• URLhttp://mysqladmin.domain.com

• Login and administration password:root : root

4.3.10 Arkeia - Backup Server

To access Arkeia’s management console, you must browse the IPBrick web interfaceto:

IPbrick - I

Backup

Open



It is required an initial password, this password is the same one used to accessthe IPBrick web interface (GUI). At the Arkeia’s management console the defaultcredentials are:

• login: root

• Password: (blank password)

4.3.11 Bacula - Backup Server

• URLhttp://webacula.domain.com

• Login and administration password:admin:123456

This application allows access to the backup web administration (Bacula).

4.3.12 Kaspersky Anti-Spam Enterprise Edition

To access the Kaspersky Anti-Spam for Mail Server management console browsethe IPBrick web interface to:

IPbrick.C

E-Mail

Kaspersky Anti-Spam

The configuration interface is available only for ”administrator” user. It isrequired an initial authentication, the login and password are the same ones usedto access the IPBrick web interface (GUI).

4.3.13 MyIPBrick

• URLhttps://myipbrick.domain.com

The access to this service is granted to all IPBrick users. Each one must useits own login and password.

4.3.14 Webmail

• URLhttp://webmail.domain.com

The access to this service is granted to all IPBrick users. Each one must useits own login and password.


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4.3.15 IPBrick - Instant Messaging

• URLhttp://ipbrick.domain.com:5280/admin/

• Login and administration password:[email protected]: 123

This application allows specific configurations to the Instant Messaging service.

4.3.16 IPBrick - Callmanager

• URLhttp://callmanager.domain.com

• Login and administration password:administrator:123

This application allows the access to the Asterisk Callmanager.

4.4 Licence activation

4.4.1 Licence request

IPBrick is installed by default with a trial licence valid for 30 days. Before the endof this trial period it’s very important that you must insert a permanent license orIPBrick will automatically restore all its configurations to default and will reboot.

! ATTENTION !: If IPBrick is fully in production, please don’t letthe 30 days trial period expire or you’ll risk sufffering serious repercus-sions to your network services.

To activate the IPBrick Permanent Licence you must proceed as follows:

1. Access the IPBrick web management interface and browse to

Advanced Configurations

- IPBrick

- WEB Access

2. Click on the ”Download server identification for licence generation” link,save the file file.dat and sent it by e-mail to [email protected] withadditional information like the company name and the IPBrick server type(Intranet, Communication or VoIP server);



4.4.2 Licence reception

You will receive an e-mail with an attached licence.dat file, this is your IPBricklicence activation file. To activate IPBrick licence please proceed as follows:

1. Access the IPBrick web management interface and browse to:

Advanced Configurations

- IPBrick

- WEB Access

2. Click the ”Cancel trial license” link;

3. In the IPBrick license activation form (Figure 4.3), click the ”Browse” buttonand select the licence.dat file that you received. Push the Insert button;

You have activated IPBrick permanent license. IPBrick is now ready to beused.

4.4.3 Licence expiration

At the end of the 30 days trial period, IPBrick will automatically reboot andrestore to the default configurations. When acessing the web interface the licenceactivation form will be shown (Figure 4.3).

4.4.4 Licence Activation code

It’s possible to activate the permament licence using a activation code generatedby the IPBrick team. The activation is done equaly by the licence activationform choosing the option Activation Code.As seen at Figure 4.4 this fields arenecessary:

• Activation code: Insert the activation code received;

• Customer’s info: Company name and some info about the IPBrick servertype;

• Email to send licence copy: A copy of IPBrick licence (file licence.dat)can be sent to the server administrator’s email.

NOTE: IPBrick must be connected to the Internet in order to check the licencevalidation at iPortalMais servers.


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Figure 4.3: Licence Activation form

Figure 4.4: Licence Activation Code




Chapter 5

More information

5.1 Technical support

To contact IPBrick technical support, please send an e-mail to:[email protected].

5.2 Useful Links

• www.ipbrick.com

• www.iportaldoc.com

• www.iportalmais.pt

• www.kaspersky.com


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Chapter 6

Appendix A - ApplianceIPBrick.GT

This chapter contains the necessary instructions for a correct IPBbrick.GT (Figure6.1) interconnection to the existant costumer network and telephony access.

Figure 6.1: IPBrick appliance

6.1 IPBbrick.GT connections

At the front of an IPBbrick.GT appliance we have:

• Four RJ-45 ports (4x Gigabit-Ethernet): The left port is eth0, following toright side for eth1, eth2, eth3;

• Two USB 2.0 ports;

• Console port: To connect using the RJ-45 serial extension cable includedwith the appliance. Windows HyperTerminal can be used with these settings:baud rate 19200, parity none, data bits 8 and stop bits 1;

• Display: A .deb package can be installed at IPBrick to show the ether-net/telephony cards port status;


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At the back of an IPBbrick.GT appliance we have:

• Two PCI slots for telephony cards;

• A power switch;

6.2 Analog communications

In case of analogic telephony accesses/lines, IPBbrick.GT can have a card as theone visible at Figure 6.2. This card can have different modules inserted:

• FXS: Foreign eXchange Subscriber interface, to connect to telephones, modems,FAX’s etc (GREEN MODULES);

• FXO: Foreign eXchange Office interface, to connect to PSTN (RED MOD-ULES);

At Figure 6.2 example, the two first interfaces are FXS and the last two areFXO. It’s possible to see the connection between the module and the specific port.If you want to connect phones to the FXS ports, those ports should be poweredon using the PW interface showed at Figure 6.2.

Note: The card jumpers should not be changed. The physical link is RJ-11.

Figure 6.2: Analog telephony card

6.3 Digital communications

In case of digital lines, IPBbrick.GT cards can be ISDN BRI or ISDN PRI.


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6.3.1 BRI

The ISDN BRI1 card showed at Figure 6.3 has 4 ports (the telephony cards have1BRI, 2BRI and 8BRI configurations too). To each port a group of 5 jumpers isassociated and depending of the jumpers’ configuration, the port can stay as NT2

(acting as operator) or TE3 (acting as PBX). For example, at Beronet cards ifjumpers are connected to the two right side pins (default configuration), port isconfigured as TE. If jumpers are connected to the two left side pins, the port isacting as NT. It’s important always to check and configure all the port jumpers.Normally the telephony cards have the TE/NT configuration schema but you canalways consult the card’s instruction manual.

A 8BRI card complete schema is present at http://www.ipbrick.com/files/8BRISchema.png.

Figure 6.3: BRI card

The correct port configuration (NT,TE) between all the company interfaces, ispresent at Figure 6.4.

Leds

• Fixed Red: With link ;

• Blinking Red: Without link ;

• Fixed Green: Current call using that port.

1Basic Rate Interface2Network Termination3Terminal Equipment



Figure 6.4: Interconnection between IPBrick, PSTN e PBX

Pinout

The correct cable pinout between PSTN, IPBbrick.GT and PBX can be seenat Figure 6.5 and Figure 6.6.

Figure 6.5: Straight RJ-45 cable pinout

Figure 6.6: Crossover RJ-45 cable pinout between IPBbrick.GT and PBX

6.3.2 PRI

For PRI4 lines (E1 in Europe or T1 at USA) there are telephony cards with 1, 2or 4 ports. At Figure 6.7 a PRI card is showed with 2 ports. Depending of thecard manufacturer, port 1 can be designated as 1 (Digium) or A (Sangoma), andport 2 as 2 or B.

Leds

• Fixed Red: With link ;

• Fixed Green: Without link.

4Primary Rate Interface



Figure 6.7: PRI card

Pinout

The correct cable pinout between PSTN, IPBbrick.GT and PBX can be seenat Figure 6.8.

Figure 6.8: Crossover RJ-45 cable pinout between IPBbrick.GT and PBX

The connection between the PRI modem and the existant PBX can use:

• Coaxial cables: Two coaxial cables (send and receive) are connected betweenthe PRI modem and the PBX (Figure 6.10). The connector is usually BNCbut different types of BNC connectors are used, depending of the operator.

• UTP cables: One PRI UTP cable connected between the PRI modem andthe PBX using RJ-45 connectors (Figure 6.11)

Depending of that connection type, IPBrick can intercept that PBX/PSTNconnection using:

• balun (Figure 6.9) is a converter that can be plugged into by 2 coaxial cablesat one side (2 BNC’s), and at the other side a single RJ-45 cable can pluginto an IPBrick telephony card port. The connection schema can be viewedat Figure 6.13;



• RJ-45: The connection between PBX, IPBbrick.GT and PSTN is made byUTP cables using RJ-45 connectors (Figure 6.12);

Figure 6.9: BNC/RJ45 Balun

Figure 6.10: PRI modem and PBX connection by coaxial

Figure 6.11: PRI modem and PBX connection by UTP

NOTE: For BRI/PRI straight connections using UDP, normal ethernet net-work cables can be used (4 pairs). No need to use specific BRI/PRI UDP cables(2 pairs).



Figure 6.12: IPBrick intercepting PRI line and PBX using UTP cables only

Figure 6.13: IPBrick intercepting PRI line and PBX using baluns


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IPBrick - Version 5.2 Installation Manual · 2019-01-03 · Chapter 1 Purpose of this document This manual contains important and useful instructions about IPBrick installation procedure