[asterisk-users] Test Call Script

[Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC]

on an analog Zap PSTN channel, you have no real way of determining if 
the remote side answered, because, as you discerned, it IS considered 
answered as soon as asterisk opens the channel.

How about you contact another asterisk server through the PSTN, and dial 
through to an extension on that remote asterisk server that, in turn, 
notifies the first asterisk server maybe via the internet that it was 
received?

for example, consider the following php script accessupdate.php on 
primary asterisk box:

<?php
	if (!strcmp($_GET['update'], 'true'))
	{
		touch("/etc/asterisk/secondary_server_last_access");
	}
?>

then primary calls secondary box through PSTN, and through the magic of 
DISA or CID or what-have-you, dials through to an extension that executes
System(wget -q -O /dev/null 
http://primary-server/access_update.php?update=true)

then hangs up.  then primary server checks the last-access time of 
/etc/asterisk/secondary_server_last_access to make its decision, via 
cron script or bash script triggered through the dialplan subsequent to 
the initial dial-out.

This is of course a very rudimentary on-the-fly thing I came up with, 
but think outside the box and this may be the easiest way for you to do 
what you want.

Moj


John Kane wrote:
> I am trying to write a script to attempt to make a call on a Zap 
> channel, and if it fails, send an alarm.  I can generate the call, but 
> because the Zap channel accepts the call, even though the other end 
> never answers, it sees it as a successful call, which it isn’t.
> 
>  
> 
> Anyone have any ideas on this?  Thanks.
> 
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Mojo <mojo at horanappraisals.com>
Office Manager, Horan & Company, LLC
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