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

[Anton]

I would add something essential for any production systems:
1) bring up/down the whole span
2) add-remove a span.
3) fully reconfigure zaptel channel.
now everyone is forced to stop services and resume after 
doing the mentioned.

On 24 October 2006 21:31, Tony Mountifield wrote:
> I want to create a CLI or Manager command to busy and
> un-busy channels in a PRI trunk, without actually making
> real calls.
>
> Does chan_zap have any API functions that I can call to
> do this, or do I need to create some new functionality?
> How about libpri?
>
> The objective is that a busied-out channel (a) will not
> be available for dialing out on - it would be skipped in
> group dialling and would give CHANUNAVAIL if called
> explicitly, and (b) would not be used for incoming calls
> - I assume there would be some D-channel signalling
> involved to mark the channel as busy.
>
> If anyone could point me in the right direction, I would
> be very appreciative!
>
> Cheers
> Tony