[Asterisk-Users] Confused of London - How to associate zap channels to extensions

[Steven Critchfield]

On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 11:28, Asterisk wrote:
> I was playing around with the Flash Operator Panel, and came smack into a 
> brick wall.
> 
> We have a * box linked to a legacy Meridian System using a EuroIDSN link 
> (TE405p) with 10 channels enabled. I also have several SIP extensions.
> 
> What I wanted to do was to have a button for each of our (say) 32 users, 5 
> of which are on SIP. That leaves the other 27 on Zap. A potential of 27 
> users on 10 channels doesn't go, but we rarely have more than 8 channels in 
> use at any one time.
> 
> Now, I can define a button for each of the SIP extensions easily. But how do 
> I do the same for the ZAP extensions, as the zap channel number may be 
> different each time a call is made to that extension ?
> 
> In my extensions.conf, I simply dial the zap extension using the zap group 
> DIAL(zap/g1/4321)

Welcome to the world of trunks. Your right that the channels don't
matter on a trunk and they will probably be different everytime. I would
suggest that you drop the concern about the connection as you aren't
able to track meridian to meridian calls in that app anyways and SIP to
SIP calls might also escape your monitoring. So your tool isn't
effective in giving you a whole picture anyways, so why be fooled by
what little it does give you?
-- 
Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>