How-To

The following How-To guides have been posted by HylaFAX users. Please feel free to write your own guides and place them here.

[edit] How do I?

• Quick Start Guides for Beginners and Advanced *nix users. If you know how to do the below efficiently, please create those pages and spend a few moments to write up a quick outline for those of us who are not as familiar with Hylafax. Thank you.
  • Check which modems are installed on the system and which ones hylafax is using. Many novice users will have only one or two modems on the system -- these are the users who need the most amount of help.
  • Web Based Faxing.
  • Desktop Client Software and Handbook:Server Operation:Sending Faxes.
  • FreeBSD Start Guide.
• Monitoring
  • Graph your fax queue with MRTG
  • Graph modem utilisation with ploticus
  • Monitor your fax queue with Nagios
  • Monitor your fax scheduler/queue with OpenSMART
  • Monitor your Eicon Diva Server with Nagios
• Integration
  • Print a datestamp on incoming faxes
  • Attach fax document to email notification
  • Setup Vgetty and distinctive ring
  • Automatically print incoming faxes
  • Email to Fax Gateway
  • Hylafax - Active Directory (german)
• SMS & Paging
  • Send SMS with Hylafax in Germany
• External How-To Guides
  • German Hylafax HowTo at Debianhowto.de
  • Routing Incoming Faxes
  • Hylafax from start to finish Other Format: pdf, ps
  • Russian Hylafax+FreeBSD HowTo at lissyara.su