F. Configuration Templates

Configuration files such as sip.conf, iax.conf, and so on can have hundreds of entries; such files are difficult to maintain.

Take a typical sip.conf, for example:

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There is another way. Asterisk offers the little-known support for templates! Using a template, our sip.conf would look like this instead:

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This is particularly useful when you have groups or classes of stations with very similar characteristics; that is, in cases where it isn’t possible to put all the common parameters in the [general] section. Even in this ...

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