Integrating Asterisk, FreePBX and vTiger

vTiger is a free, fully-featured open source CRM solution that can be used to manage your customers and sales leads. It can also integrate with Asterisk to provide click-to-call and call notification from within vTiger itself.

While the Elastix distribution comes with both Asterisk and vTiger installed it may not be desirable to have your CRM and VOIP system running on the same server for performance reasons. You don’t want vTiger interfering with the call quality. Also vTiger on Elastix is not normally at the latest version, which has resulted in security issues in the past.

The solution is to run vTiger and Asterisk on different servers. The instructions below were kindly provided by a SysAdminMan customer on the steps required to integrate Asterisk and vTiger. If you want assistance with this please open a support ticket.

This would work well with a SysAdminMan FreePBX server – sysadminman.net/sysadminman-freepbx-hosting.html

1 – Whitelist the vTiger server IP addresses in the Asterisk server firewall

2 – Add the following lines to FreePBX /etc/asterisk/manager_custom.conf:

3 – Add credentials to vTiger PBX module as follows:

Asterisk server IP YourSysadminmanPbxIP
Asterisk server port 5038
Asterisk username vTiger
Asterisk password YourSecret
Asterisk Version 1.6 (this works fine with Asterisk 1.8 also)

4 – Change these lines in /var/www/html/vtigercrm/modules/PBXManager/utils/AsteriskClass.php

5 – Add trunks, extensions and any outbound routes making sure that in your extensions you select context = from-internal