[Asterisk-Users] Identifying a call with manager interface

[Maciek Kaminski]

Nicolas Bougues wrote:

>Dear all,
>
>I'm trying to play with the manager interface.
>
>What I'd like to do is being able to originate a call and trace its
>status through events.
>
>I use the "Originate" manager command. I then receive several events
>telling me about the progress of the call, and then the "Response"
>message.
>
>However, I didn't find a way to be sure that the first "Event" I
>receive after the "Originate" really relates the call I'm making, and
>not some other random call, since I believe that I may get events for
>any channel, not just mine.
>
>Note that the Channel I'm using is IAX based, and looks like this :
>IAX2[217.146.224.41:4569]/3 in the events messages. So I have no way
>to know it's really mine.
>
>Event the final Response message doesn't state the "UniqueId" of the
>call.
>
>Maybe I missed something obvious.
>
>Any idea ?
>  
>
Currrent manager originate behavior looks a little hacky. First it is 
blocking and may last for tenths of second what with fact that manager 
interface isn't concurrent(see 
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+manager+experience) narrows range 
of originate applications. Secondly one can't get channel name that 
originate created. To straighten things out originate should be made 
asynchronous and make identyfing channel name via events possible.

P.S.: There is a patch in mantis 
(http://bugs.digium.com/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000772) that makes 
originate asynchronous but it has not been approved yet.

Maciek Kaminski