[asterisk-users] hostname in MySQL CDR records

[Anthony Messina]

On Thursday 01 November 2007 12:57:10 am Steve Edwards wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Jim Gottlieb wrote:
> > I would like to send the CDR records from all our machines around the
> > world to a single database.  But I need the hostname included with each
> > record for monitoring purposes.
> >
> > Is there a better way than using the userfield and adding
> > SetCDRUserfield for every call to set the userfield to the name of the
> > host?
>
> Personally, I think the "userfield" is a hack. I prefer to add properly
> named columns to the cdrs table using cdr_addon_mysql. It makes everything
> so much more obvious -- especially when you don't have to cram several
> values into the singularly obtuse userfield.

i'm sure i'm missing something.  i, too, would like to add custom fields using 
cdr_addon_mysql, but how and where would i define them?  can i add a 
[mappings] section to the cdr_mysql.conf file?

-- 
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