[asterisk-users] Urgent question.

[Steve Totaro]

To answer the question, there is currently no way to busy out a channel 
except to put it in use.  There was some discussion about adding this 
feature at Astricon and on the list fairly recently.

Thanks,
Steve

Steve Totaro wrote:
> 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
>>>> Web    : http://www.evaristesys.com/
>>>> Tel    : +1-678-954-0670
>>>> Direct : +1-678-954-0671
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>>> Alex Balashov
>>> Evariste Systems
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>>> Direct : +1-678-954-0671
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