[asterisk-dev] pri show span

[Jonathan k. Creasy]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-dev-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Eric "ManxPower" Wieling
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 4:21 PM
> To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-dev] pri show span
> 
> Steven Critchfield wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 15:58 -0500, Andrew Latham wrote:
> >> I agree but this may be best for the GUI.
> >
> > What GUI?
> >
> > While I am not yet sure I would use the feature, I can see it as
usefull
> > for a remote managment standpoint.
> >
> > I dial in or ssh into the machine experiencing a problem and I can
> > gather proper details about the line.
> >
> > Question then comes down to, should that be all we store? If you are
> > creating it for maintenance problems, wouldn't the service number to
> > call be usefull as well? What about a notes section that lets you
track
> > previous problems?
> 
> Cisco has a description option for each of the interfaces.  We use
that
> to store circuit information.
> _______________________________________________


The description field is very useful. Something like that would be very
helpful to us and anyone else with many PRI on many boxes with many
providers. I want Joe Nobody that works in my tech support department to
be able to identify a problem and make a call to the carrier to get a
ticket opened.