[asterisk-users] Urgent question.

[Erik Anderson]

You should be able to issue a "stop gracefully" command to asterisk.
That'll cause it to stop accepting new calls, but will let existing
calls continue until complete.

-erik

On Nov 27, 2007 12:06 PM, Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
>
> In other words, what I need is a way for the upstream switch to somehow
> think that the B channels are out of service, but without actually taking
> the B channels out of service and dropping the existing calls.
>
> From within asterisk, zaptel, wanpipe, whatever.  Is that possible?
>
>
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Alex Balashov wrote:
>
> >
> > Our provider gives us four PRIs as a trunk group hunt group.  Meaning, the
> > provider's switch will cycle through B channels in span 1, 2, 3, ... until
> > it finds one that is available.
> >
> > I have moved spans 2-4 onto another machine.  But we have one remaining
> > box with a PRI full of calls and I don't know what to do with them; the
> > box is failing, but dropping them by simply yanking the PRI is not
> > acceptable from a business POV.
> >
> > Sending Congestion() or Busy() in the dial plan wouldn't work because
> > the far-end switch would simply pass that onto the subscriber, rather
> > interpreting it to mean that the B channel is unavailable and it should
> > go on to other T1s in the trunk group.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> >
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