[asterisk-dev] CLI filtering

[critch]

On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 18:27 -0800, John Todd wrote:
> I would be very much in favor of "tagging" from a dialplan-accessible 
> (and AMI-accessible) trigger, which could either tag things in the 
> debug log or raise a call to the console output.  I have very busy 
> systems with only particular calls that create problems, and it would 
> be nice to only see the output from the calls that I tag in a certain 
> way, or redirect the output from those specific calls to a custom 
> debug log.
> 
> exten => 1234,1,Debug(track-me,debug,tricky-problem)
> exten => 1234,n,Dial(SIP/blah)
> exten => 1234,n,Debug(track-me,none)
> 
> then, in logger.conf, a line like this:
> 
> track-me => adhoc

> where "adhoc" is a special logging level that takes it's level 
> dynamically from the dialplan/AMI.
> 
> The /var/log/asterisk/track-me file would contain something like this 
> appended on it's end, where the tag would be inserted into the output 
> file or stream, and then would stop as soon as the Debug command was 
> called with a "none" option.  Any output, debugs, warnings, or 
> verbose messages associated with that leg (or any spawned legs) would 
> be tagged with whatever was in the "Debug" application call.  This 
> could also be used to modify the output to the console, if the word 
> "console" was used as the specified channel for debug output.

Your idea of an application being able to add tags to a channel from the
dialplan makes me happy. It solves the tag by callerid that I am
interested in. It solves many by call tagging problems really. You could
do a quick dialplan logic to select out the specific call you are
wanting to track and add the tag there. Then you could apply the filter
to it.

Not sure if I am a fan of the logger.conf portion, but I don't see that
as being a bad thing. Most posts in this thread have been about limiting
what came to the CLI. By being able to select 1 or 2 tags that are
interesting and those tags possibly being dynamically set by a dialplan
app makes me very excited.
-- 
critch <critch at basesys.com>