Problem with Asterisks/FreePBX ODBC

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NethServer Version: NethServer release 7.9.2009 (final)
Kernel Release: 3.10.0-1160.15.2.el7.x86_64
Module: Asterisk 13.38.1 / FreePBX 14.0.16.4

I have some trouble with Asterisks/FreePBX database connection so the Error: “app_voicemail_odbcstorage.c:5901 inboxcount2: Failed to obtain database object for ‘asteriskcdrdb’!” repeats often.

“asterisk -rx “odbc show”” shows me there are no ODBC DSN Settings in Asterisk.

Compared with an testing installation i have found, that the “/etc/asterisk/res_odbc_additional.conf” of my installation ist “empty”, except the lines generated from FreePBX.

I would fill in the needed sections and informations like:
" [asteriskcdrdb]
enabled=>yes
dsn=>MySQL-asteriskcdrdb
pre-connect=>yes
max_connections=>5
username=>freepbxuser
password=>mysuperduperpasswordforthispost
database=>asteriskcdrdb"

but the edited config will overwritten from FreePBX.

As described in FreePBX Wiki, the based config file should be “/etc/odbc.ini”, but this file generates from e-smith in Nethserver. Now i am confused.

I cant find the e-smith template AND i cant find the source where e-smith gets the needed information for database connection like username and password for generating the config file.

Any suggestions?

Regards yummiweb

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Thank you for lead me to this Informations. It is even better to read such things first before asking,
but in my case the answer isnt there or i cant find.

My “configuration db(s)” in both installation (normal and test installation) have no entries for the needed informations like username and password.

The entries for “MySQL-asteriskcdrdb” in BOTH installations are:
MySQL-asteriskcdrdb=odbc
Database=asteriskcdrdb
Description=ODBC on asteriskcdrdb
Driver=MySQL
Port=3306
Server=localhost

The entry in “/etc/asterisk/res_odbc_additional.conf” needs:
" [asteriskcdrdb]
enabled=>yes
dsn=>MySQL-asteriskcdrdb
pre-connect=>yes
max_connections=>5
username=>freepbxuser
password=>mysuperduperpasswordforthispost
database=>asteriskcdrdb"

Maybe in could write in the needed informations in configurations db now (like described in nethserver-unixODBC readme), but i dont think this would work in the right way.

Ether FreePBX or e-smith “expands” the needed informations (username and password) in the “/etc/asterisk/res_odbc_additional.conf” file, but i cant find his source (db) for username and password.

I have searched for “mysuperduperpasswordforthispost” and “myothersuperduperpasswordforthispost” in config files on both installations and found the password(s) here:
etc/asterisk/extensions_additional.conf
etc/amportal.conf
etc/freepbx.conf

The only different (file) is “etc/asterisk/res_odbc_additional.conf”, but this file is - like described -generated from somewhere. While this source seems to empty or non-exist in my installation, the ODBC DSN Settings in Asterisk are non-exist.

If i add the needed informations in “/etc/asterisk/res_odbc_additional.conf” direct, the ODBC DSN Settings in Asterisk are fine but lost after asterisks/freepbx restart (expanding, asterisks macros whatever).

The wiki.asterisks.org was not helpful until now. It describes to change the “/etc/odbc.ini”, but this file is managed from Nethserver e-smith and the configuration db. Maybe the nethserver-freepbx installation procedere differs also, so asking the Asterisks/FreePBX Forums seem the wrong way for me.

To find and fix such things by hand is rather and has more learning effect as an complete de- and re-installation. So maybe someone has informations for me to set the needed informations in the correct way to the correct place.

Regards yummiweb.

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In-between i played around with my testing installation and have found that:

My nearly new FreePBX has shown in dashboard that the UCP node is nod running.
After reading some FreePBX community posts, a option should be to reinstall the UCP Module via module manager. So i have done that with “force download and install”.

This process have takes some time, but after then the “ODBC DSN Settings” in my test-installation was gone(!). The config file “/etc/asterisk/res_odbc_additional.conf” was empty now. Ups…

So i think, this behavior is maybe a problem with freepbx itself, not the nethserver-freepbx. What do you mean?

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Sorry, I don’t know, I don’t use it.

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Even after deinstallation and reinstallation (including deletion of all relevant program components, configuration files and databases) the problem is still the same. So I end my nethserver-freepbx experiment at this point and use FreePBX in a separate VM instead. Nevertheless many thanks!

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Sorry to read that and that I missed this thread. Did you try to reconfigure nethserver-freepbx and maybe nethserver-unixODBC with signal-event nethserver-freepbx-update ?

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No i didn’t tried this command because i haven’t read this nowhere in the docs.
But i think a have used /etc/e-smith/events/actions/system-adjust in this process.

Is the combination signal-event "$package-name"-update in general or mostly the way to reconfigure Nethserver services?

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This reconfigures the whole server.

https://wiki.nethserver.org/doku.php?id=howto:useful_commands#reconfigure_the_server

Yes, it reconfigures a NethServer module.

Usually a nethserver-* module has an update event that completely reconfigures the package.

See nethserver-httpd for example and the docs about actions and events.

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