In this blog, we will cover the basic steps in setting up the Vodia PBX with Google Cloud. If you don’t have a google account, you can sign up at https://cloud.google.com/ and get $300 to spend on Google Cloud Platform over the next 12 months!
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In this blog, we will cover the basic steps in setting up the Vodia PBX with Google Cloud. If you don’t have a google account, you can sign up at https://cloud.google.com/ and get $300 to spend on Google Cloud Platform over the next 12 months!
If you don’t have a Vodia account, signup for free and receive a free license. https://portal.vodia.com/en/register
Once you have access to your Google Cloud Navigate to (Compute Engine) to create a VM.
Click on create
When done, click create.
Now that the VM is running, Google has provided us with an internal IP and external IP addresses. These IP addresses will be assigned to the Vodia PBX to determining the audio packets.
Next, we are going to set up the firewall on Google Cloud.
Click on your instance as shown below.
Next, scroll down to (Network details) and click on (View details)
In the right-hand panel choose (Firewall rule).
To install the VodiaPBX, we need to log in with SSH, to do this, click on the SSH drop down and choose (Open in the browser window).
This will open an SSH session on your browser.
Since I am using Debian, I am going to navigate to https://doc.vodia.com/install_linux for the executable script.
In the command line, copy-paste the following in order.
When the script is done installing, the VodiaPBX will automatically startup.
To log into the Vodia PBX, you will need to check your external IP address, this can be found in the main page of your VM.
Copy-paste the IP or click on the open browser link.
You will be presented with the Vodia login page, The user login is admin, there’s no password configured yet, so we will have to create one.
You will be presented with the license terms, click Agree to continue.
Navigate to settings –> Security –>General
Since Google Cloud is behind NAT, we need to program the Vodia PBX to use the external IP address of the VM. The ( IP Routing list ) in the Vodia PBX is used to override the operating system IP routing table. (This setting will be consulted by the system before consulting/using the operating system)
To check your internal/external IP address, click on the three-line icon and scroll down to (Compute Engine)
In this example, my internal IP is 10.150.0.2 and my external IP is 35.236.234.40
IP Routing list value is as follow.
Example: :10.150.0.0/255.255.255.0/10.150.0.2 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0/35.236.234.40
To add your IP routing list on the Vodia PBX navigate to Settings –>SIP –>Setting as shown below, and add your value and save.
Well, that was fun! To learn more about the VodiaPBX phone system visits us at https://vodia.com/getting-started-with-vodia
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