[asterisk-users] How to "busy out" zap channels

[Anthony Francis]

Tomás Laureano Peralta Tormey wrote:
> Brian:
> Maybe the CLI command "stop gracefully" is what are you looking for.
> Basically, Asterisk will stop receiving incoming calls (of any channel
> type) and stop itself when all the current calls finish.
> I hope this help you.
>
> Best regards, Tomás.
>
> 2007/9/26, Brian Roy <mister.roy at gmail.com>:
>   
>> I know this topic came up many months back and some discussions were being
>> had on how to do this within the Zaptel drivers. However, I'm looking for
>> even a crude hack that someone has put together to get this done.
>>
>> We have PRI's and LD T1's that are load balanced on two boxes. The hunt
>> order goes from box to box as far as the spans are concerned. There are
>> times that I would like to busy one out so that calls gradually role to the
>> new box and I can eventually take one out of service. What I was thinking is
>> to create a script that I could tell the specific channels and it would go
>> through and initiate zap calls to an empty meetme. Basically bridging all of
>> the available zap channels on a given span together. Then the trick is
>> monitoring the hangups so that it can initiate a subsequent call immediately
>> following. Once all of the channels in a span have been bridged, I can then
>> bring the box down. Nasty huh?
>>
>> Anyone have a better idea? Or do they have anything like this so I'm not
>> putting it together?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Brian
>>
>>     
>
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I used to do this automatically at night so that my script could svn 
update configs and then restart asterisk, what a found is that if you 
have one hung channel your ast box wil just sit there till someone 
issues a "Restart Now" in the morning.

Anthony