[asterisk-dev] Session heartbeat?

[Kaloyan Kovachev]

Hi,
 there is an old attempt for something similar at
https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=6335
 It is indeed attaching to the L() flag, but running it's own scheduler
thread instead of external daemon.

On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:25:01 -0400, Leif Madsen
<leif.madsen at asteriskdocs.org> wrote:
> On 11-07-06 02:29 PM, Gavin Henry wrote:
>> On 6 July 2011 17:32, Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming at digium.com> wrote:
>>> On 07/06/2011 11:27 AM, Gavin Henry wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Would anyone have any pointers about how to best implement this?
>>>> Willing to sponsor it. So something gets run every 60s.
>>>
>>> That's pretty vague: you didn't specify a protocol, or even what
>>> 'something'
>>> might be. If your goal is to keep SIP sessions alive, or know when
they
>>> are
>>> broken, SIP 'session timers' will do that and are already implemented.
>> 
>> Yeah, sorry. I'm thinking like this
>>
http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Mod_nibblebill#Enabling_Session_Heartbeat
>> for billing
> 
> I think you'll need to implement something external (perhaps marking
> something
> in a database with the channel name, or using the GROUP() dialplan
> function?),
> and then access the channels via the Asterisk Manager Interface and
> update/control channels using a daemon.
> 
> There is the L() flag to Dial() which does most of what you want, except
> for the
> live updating during the call.
> 
> Leif.
> 
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