[asterisk-users] Test Call Script

[Henry.L.Coleman]

I can think of a couple of ways to achieve testing of a PSTN line but this
would seem to be the easiest.

Attempt to call an incoming PSTN/SIP/IAX line from your outgoing PSTN
trunk, answer the call at a vmail box and notify you of a message via
email.
insert a delay of x minutes and do it again.




Henry L.Coleman CEO
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Toronto Ontario
Canada


> 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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