[asterisk-users] "Cheapest" way to determine channels in a group from outside asterisk?

[Lenz]

why not using a "zap show" command and parse the results externally?
l.



On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:12:46 +0200, Nick Adams <gmane at narkov.com> wrote:

> I need to determine the number of active calls in a group from outside  
> of Asterisk. Currently I poll the manager API and parse the channel  
> status list but this is becoming too expensive on CPU.
>
> What are my options? What is considered "standard practice" ? Update a  
> DB field? Poll the manager api? Use an asterisk -rv 'some command' call?
>


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