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

[Matt Florell]

On 10/22/06, Julian Lyndon-Smith <asterisk at dotr.com> wrote:
> Matt Florell wrote:
> > For several releases now the BRIStufft version of Asterisk will
> > prepend the hostname of the server to the beginning of the base
> > uniqueid by default and use that new value as the uniqueid of the call
> > everywhere it is used. This shouldn't be that difficult to do in
> > regular Asterisk.
>
> Is this the case for the cdr record in an odbc database ?

Yes, I even had to modify the database schema I was using to allow for
the longer uniqueids. It is changed in the code of Asterisk somewhere
I just never went in to find the location of the change. Just wanted
to mention that is how the BRIstufft version does uniqueid and it does
allow for a truely unique identifier across multiple machines.

MATT---

> Julian
>
> >
> > MATT---
> >
> > On 10/21/06, Julian Lyndon-Smith <asterisk at dotr.com> 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/
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