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

[Julian Lyndon-Smith]

Conrad Wood wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 19:16 +0100, Julian Lyndon-Smith wrote:
>> hi guys. Is there anyway of generating a universal / global unique id 
>> from the dialplan (A uuid or guid). I want to have several asterisk 
>> servers sharing a cdr database, and want a unique reference for each 
>> call. Obviously, ${UNIQUEID} doesn't work across several * systems/
> 
> couldn't you set a variable in the local dialplan and combine ith with
> uniqueid?
> e.g.
> LOCALID=asterisk1
> 
> and then
> Set(GLOBALID=${LOCALID}-${UNIQUEID}) or so?

Doh. Sometimes things are just so simple I seem to miss them. ;)

Thanks for the help.

Julian
> 
> or even use the hostname of the machine?
> 
> Conrad
> 
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