[asterisk-users] Stopping putgoing calls after working hours

[Alex Robar]

If the phone is not registered, how will you make outgoing emergency calls?

Alex

On 10/17/06, Mohamed A. Gombolaty <mgombolaty at noorgroup.net> wrote:
>
> 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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> MAG
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