[asterisk-users] Urgent question.

[Steve Totaro]

Generally, best practices would dictate that you do this while the 
business is closed if it is not a 24/7 operation.  I guess that kind of 
foresight comes with experience.

Glad to see things are going smoothly.

Thanks,
Steve



Erik Anderson wrote:
> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Alex Balashov
>>> Evariste Systems
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>> Alex Balashov
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