[asterisk-users] Test Call Script

[Mike Lynchfield]

yes.. actualy use 1 did for each proxy to check..

then inbound for each use the method he described..


On 10/12/06, Mojo with Horan & Company, LLC <mojo at horanappraisals.com>
wrote:
>
> 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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> >
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> Mojo <mojo at horanappraisals.com>
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