[Asterisk-Users] Remote control IVR

Tilghman Lesher tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com
Mon Oct 6 10:21:59 MST 2003


On Monday 06 October 2003 12:13 pm, Ívar Ragnarsson wrote:
> I work at a small company that has some IVR solutions that use
> Dialogic hardware for everything.
> Everything is written in C++ using MS VC++ using the Dialogic API
> and runs only on Windows.
> Being the rebel that I am, I would like free myself from Dialogic.
> To do this without porting all our existing code to run on Linux I
> was thinking of controlling the Asterisk from a Windows machine
> running our existing code.
> i.e. making an API similar to the Dialogic one that would control
> Asterisk over TCP/IP.
>
> Has anyone done something like this? Or does someone have has a
> good idea for implementing such a thing?
>
> I am still familiarizing myself with Asterisk but as I understand
> it you can add functionality to Asterisk through the AGI interface
> and by creating a loadable application.
> Which one would one should I use to solve my problem?  Does an
> loadable application give you more control than an AGI script?

Applications and AGI are not self-starters.  They both need to be
invoked from the dial plan.  If you want to originate calls from
outside Asterisk, you need to take a look at the manager interface
which can be made to run on TCP port 5038 (it does not run by
default).

-Tilghman




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