<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span><span>Hi Asterisk experts,</span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 21.6px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span><span>I need your help on the following issue:</span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 21.6px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span><span><br></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 21.6px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span><span>I want to
monitor a call using Asterisk's AMI and here is what I did:</span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><br><span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>A: SIP client registered to my SIP server</span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>B: SIP client registered to Asterisk <br></span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size:
18px;"><span><span>steps:</span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-size: 21.6px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>1. Client A calls client B via my sip server to asterisk</span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>2. Call between A and B gets established.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span>3. In asterisk I can see that the <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">$CHANNEL</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"></span></span> for this call is
set to <br></span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span><span>SIP/mySIPServer-0008db25</span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span>4. During the call, I start recording the call by sending the following request to asterisk's AMI</span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> and it works OK. <br></span></span></span></div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span> Action:Monitor</span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span><span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">Channel:</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);"><span><span>SIP/mySIPServer-0008db25</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> ActionID:987987987988</span><br><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">5. I can also pause and unpause the recording using PauseMonitor and
UnpauseMonitor without any issue. </span><br><br><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span>My question is how can I find this <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">CHANNEL</span> for a particular call from <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 127);">outside the asterisk</span>?</span></span><br><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span>From outside the asterisk, we usually refer a particular sip call by SIP call ID and CHANNEL is only known inside asterisk, I think. <br>Is there a easy way we can get this Channel using call ID from outside Asterisk?<br><br>Thanks a lot in advance for your help!<br><br>Beiyan </span></span><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>