[asterisk-users] Stopping putgoing calls after working hours

[Mohamed A. Gombolaty]

Dear Rich,

It seems that my question is very general I apologize for that, but I am
glad to see others like yourself pointing me in different directions, it
seems all around the world we have problems with the cleaning folks.

What I have in mind is to make the phone user lock his phone when he is
leaving with a special code and relock it back when he comes to work (and
as for emergency calls there are attendants who work at night who will be
able to make an emergency call whenever needed at the spot), now there is
nothing that seems to be able to do that directly, I have played around with
the gotoiftime and also the time based dial plan include sent in mails
before that.

But while working I thought of another approach why not create a php web
interface that each user logs in with a special username and password and
gives him access to lock his phone, and what php does is actually change the
secret password to something else than the configured on the phone, this
should make the phone unable to authenticate thus not being able to make a
call, and unlocking it returns the password to it's right form, I have
already found the tables that I need to play around so I will restart making
the php. I will update the list back with my final result.


Do you guys think I could send a mail to the dev site to see if they can add
this  feature to asterisk.

Thx
MAG

Rich Adamson wrote:

> > I  am trying to find a way to stop people who use phones after business
> > hours (a policy the company wants to implement), we have cisco 7940 and
> > 7910 phones and sadly they don't have a phone lock password system (on
> > these ciscos it locks config menu changes but not the calls but the
> > cisco 7920 has this feauture).
> >
> > So I was wondering is there a way to make this happen in asterisk??
>
> You need to better describe your objectives. If you really mean stop
> "all" calls (including emergency calls), that's easy.
>
> If you mean stop all calls that "cleaning folks" initiate (usually not
> employees), that just requires some extensions.conf changes to force the
> user to enter an "access code" before a call can be placed. (Just don't
> advertise that access code anyone that you don't want making calls.
>
> If your talking about a fairly major security issue (such as your users
> call forwarding their phones to the brother-in-law after normal hours,
> you'll probably need to disable call forwarding on the phone itself.
>
> If your talking about primarily managing expenses, use the CDR detail to
> generate a personalized report for each employee show this calls make
> between 5pm and 7am, and forward that report to each employee (and cc:
> the manager). That's usually enough to significantly cut those calls. If
> you don't have a policy relative to use of company assets (phones &
> PC's) for personal use, you might put one together and reference that
> policy in the morning CDR detail report. (I'm sure at lease some of
> those calls are likely legitimate calls, so cutting all calls is not
> likely a workable solution.
>
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Thx
MAG


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