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

[Josh McAllister]

> 
> >>>>> "TM" == Tony Mountifield <tony at softins.clara.co.uk> writes:
> 
> TM> But does it stop new calls coming in while it's waiting for the 
> TM> existing calls to finish? I suspect not.
> 
> It does. It returns an error when someone tries to open a 
> call on the PRI while it is shutting down.
> 
> Still, it would be very useful to be able to do it for just 
> one span instead of killing the whole PBX.
> 

While it does prevent * from terminating new incoming calls, it does not
do this in a way which allows the far end switch to hunt around the out
of service channel. If you have multiple spans and/or multiple servers,
and you want to continue to handle calls on the other spans/servers you
need to be able to notify the far end switch that the channel is out of
service. Hence, the point of this thread.

Josh McAllister