External directory lookup for inbound calls

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G'day,

A handy feature for people running Fusionpbx where there's an accessible 
LDAP/Active Directory domain would be to incorporate a lookup for inbound 
caller ID's against user and contact attributes in a dialplan.

Cheers,

Brad

Original issue reported on code.google.com by griffith...@yahoo.com.au on 5 May 2015 at 11:25

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Did you see http://wiki.fusionpbx.com/index.php?title=Mod_cidlookup ?

Original comment by nysoluti...@gmail.com on 5 May 2015 at 2:49

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Thanks for the suggestion, I didn't see that.
I had a read and did a little Googling but couldn't figure out a way to bridge 
the gap to Active Directory to lookup an inbound number.

I'm willing to give it a go but I need a bit more of a nudge in the right 
direction.

Original comment by griffith...@yahoo.com.au on 6 May 2015 at 12:03

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Original comment by markjcrane@gmail.com on 7 May 2015 at 5:19

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Thanks again for suggesting cidlookup, I was able to make my dream a reality. 

Although all the info is on that page I needed to read between the lines a 
little.  I now have cidlookup send a get request to a PHP page which checks 
against Active Directory for that phone number.

For anyone else comes by this, the steps I used were:
1. Ensure Freeswitch is compiled with mod_cidlookup
2. Modify /usr/local/freeswitch/conf/autoload_configs/cidlookup.conf.xml
Change the URL line to:
<param name="url" 
value="http://yourserver/yourpage.php?number=${caller_id_number}"/>

3. Reload XML
4. Enable the CID Lookup module and start it
5. Build a PHP page to lookup the variable 'number' against whatever you want
6. add the following to your inbound route dialplans (or at the top and 
continue)
action set caller_id_name=${cidlookup(${caller_id_number})}
action set effective_caller_id_name=${caller_id_name}

Original comment by griffith...@yahoo.com.au on 16 May 2015 at 1:39