[asterisk-dev] Re: How to busy out PRI channels?

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <4547C207.6000209 at fnords.org>,
Eric \"ManxPower\" Wieling <eric at fnords.org> wrote:
> Alistair Cunningham wrote:
> > When I was an engineer working mostly with IBM Websphere Voice Response, 
> > and we wanted to take a machine down, we would quiesce the trunk(s) as 
> > above, then wait until only 1 or 2 calls were left, then cut off these 
> > remaining calls. We felt this was the best compromise between cutting 
> > off as few callers as possible, and minimising the time the system was 
> > unavailable to new callers.
> > 
> > A facility to do this in Asterisk would be most welcome.
> 
> "stop gracefully" does something similar.

But does it stop new calls coming in while it's waiting for the existing
calls to finish? I suspect not.

Cheers
Tony
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