[Asterisk-Users] ASTCC newbie

[Darren Wiebe]

Nahuel Alejandro Ramos wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>  I am looking for a prepaid billing solution for my VoIP. I have
>already install SER but it does not support a statefull tracking of
>the call, so it is dificult to hang up a call when it has zero credit.
>Posting messages on Serusers maillist there are a lot of people
>telling me to use Asterisk as the billing "station".
>  Now i am using Asterisk and all is perfect (sip register, voicemail,
>etc) but I have not yet implemented the prepaid billing application.
>Someone recomend me to use ASTCC and I install it without problems but
>I do not know how to make it work with Asterisk.
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ASTCC should work good.   A "make install" should get it mostly ready to 
work.  "Make install" points you to the web page you need to go to too 
configure it.

>  Please, could you send me some help or some configurations files.
>  - Do I have to compile Asterisk with the MYSQL_FRIENDS=1 to support a MySQL?
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Yes, depending on what version of asterisk you have.  The most recent 
cvs has app_realtime or something along those lines in it that 
apparently rules over. MYSQL_FRIENDS.

>  - Could I use plain text config files if I compile Asterisk with
>MYSQL_FRIENDS=1?
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Yes

>  - How can I configure extension.conf and sip.conf to use ASTCC?
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If you look in the astcc.agi file, it tells you how to control it from 
extensions.conf

>  - How ASTCC control the calls? How does it hang up when they have no credit?
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ASTCC gets asterisk to warn the caller (I think my numbers are right) 60 
seconds before the time is up.  It also reminds them at 30 seconds.  
When the time is up they get disconnected.

> 
>THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!
>
>            Nahuel Ramos.
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Feel free to contact me off list with any other questions.

Darren Wiebe
darren at hagenhomes.com

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