[Asterisk-Users] External call initiation

[Brian]

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From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jim Dossey
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 8:24 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] External call initiation

On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 18:46 -0700, Damon Estep wrote: 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jim Dossey
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 3:21 PM
> To: Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] External call initiation
> 
> I have a client who needs to be able to initiate an outgoing call from
a
> legacy Unix application.  They use a legacy accounting system on a
Unix
> system using CRT as a telnet client.  They have the ability now to
have
> the Unix system auto-dial their phone to place a call.  For example,
> they can pull up a customer or vendor record in CRT.  The application
> uses the CRT "pass-thru" option to pass a modem dial string through
> their PC to a modem plugged into the PC's serial port.  The modem is
> attached to their telephone so that they lift the receiver, pick an
> outgoing line, and the modem dials the number.
> 
> I need to be able to do that using Asterisk and a SIP phone (or an
ADSI
> phone).  Any ideas?  Is this possible?
> 
> I was thinking that maybe there would be a way for the Unix box to
> command the Asterisk box to connect to the SIP phone, and place the
> outgoing call, and then join those 2 connections together.
> 
> TIA
> 

Have your unix app drop a call file in the * queue via ftp, here is more
info

http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+auto-dial+out

Thanks!  That was exactly what I was looking for. 

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You might want to ftp the file to a temp dir on the Asterisk server, and
then move it to the call file dir (either via ftp, or a local script called
by something like dnotify). The reason being Asterisk aggressively grabs
files from the call file dir, and can sometimes grab a file before you are
finished writing it.

-Brian