[asterisk-users] Unique call ID's across several systems

[Jeremy McNamara]

Steve Edwards wrote:
> I have a farm of 7 1u's) with te410p's. When a call comes in, I call an 
> AGI that creates a channel variable named GLOBALID. The GLOBALID is 2 
> digits for the host number, 2 digits for the channel number, and 8 
> characters for the UNIQUEID encoded in hex.
> 
> Then, I stuff it into CALLERID(name) so it will be available as the call 
> is sent (using dial()) to the application servers.
> 
>


AGI is not going to scale.  Why not do it all with dial plan logic? 
Store a global system id for each system and concat it onto the uniqueid 
CDR value.



Jeremy McNamara