[asterisk-gui] GUI Dial Plan - outgoing via multiple possible lines (roll-over)

[bkruse]

Seems like a good idea, sam.

However, why not just put them all in a group, and let asterisk decide 
which one to dial out from?

-bk

Sam Snow wrote:
> I have been trialling Asterisk hooked up to our regular PBX via three 
> FXO modules in a TDM400P card. I just upgraded to 1.4.7.1 and did a svn 
> update and recompile earlier today for the GUI. For the most part things 
> are working just as expected. The software is great!
>
> Using the GUI I have set up incoming rules so that when the regular PBX 
> calls the TDM400P line it rings a certain extension, which is the 
> exactly what I want it to do.
> I am however, having one fundamental problem with how the dial plans are 
> getting created and how the outgoing analog lines seem to be hard coded 
> for outgoing calls:
>
> For example, here is the default configuration (trimmed for clarity):
>
> extensions.conf :
> trunk_1 = Zap/g1
> trunk_2 = Zap/g2
> trunk_3 = Zap/g3
>
> [numberplan-custom-2]
> include = default
> plancomment = DialPlan2
> exten = _9XXXX!,1,Macro(trunkdial,${trunk_1}/w${EXTEN:0})
> comment = _9XXXX!,1,outside,standard
>
>
> What I would like is that if someone is using this dialplan and trunk_1 
> is busy that they are allowed to dial out on trunk_2 or trunk_3. There 
> seem to be several ways that this could be done:
>
> 1. Groups
> 2. Multiple stacked dial statements
> 3. ChanIsAvail
>
> REF:
>     
> http://www.planetwayne.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=293&sid=4326931f96aa17c451880729d5f5e5c5
>     http://readlist.com/lists/lists.digium.com/asterisk-users/4/23788.html
>     
> http://forums.digium.com/viewtopic.php?p=36735&sid=e287700c6f708d06949465d3729541e5
>     
> http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2003-September/014173.html
>
> None of these options seem to be available via the GUI. Am I missing 
> something?
> I tried several options via manual editing of the extensions.conf file 
> and decided that ChanIsAvail was the easiest to implement the way things 
> are currently set up. Groups might be easier, but I could not get them 
> to work.
>
> Here is what my dialplan became:
> [numberplan-custom-2]
> include = default
> plancomment = DialPlan2
> ; See if line 2 is available. If not, try line 1.
> exten = _9XXXX!,1,ChanIsAvail(Zap/2&Zap/3&Zap/4)
> exten = _9XXXX!,2,Macro(trunkdial,${CUT(AVAILCHAN||1)}//w${EXTEN:0})
> comment = _9XXXX!,1,outside,standard
>
> The software now checks to see if ZAP/2 is available and uses it. If it 
> is tied up it tries Zap3 and 4 before giving up.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on this? Am I doing it the correct way? Would 
> this be something that would be realistic to add to the GUI so that is 
> can be handled there? I took a look at 
> http://svn.digium.com/svn/asterisk-gui/trunk/todo.txt and did not see 
> any mention of adding this functionality.
>
> Thanks,
> Sam
>
>
>
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