[asterisk-users] Tracking T1/PRI channel status - inbound vs. outbound

[Steve Totaro]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Steve Totaro <
stotaro at totarotechnologies.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Kevin DeGraaf <kevin at kdegraaf.net> wrote:
>
>> I need to monitor the states of my T1/PRI Zap channels.  Specifically, I
>> need to be able to programmatically determine whether a channel is
>> unused, carrying an inbound call, or carrying an outbound call.
>>
>> Using the manager interface, I can easily tell whether a Zap channel is
>> used or not by looking at the results of:
>>
>>   Action: Command
>>   Command: zap show channel <x>
>>
>> Or:
>>
>>   Action: Status
>>
>> However, nothing in those results seems to reliably indicate whether the
>> channel received an incoming call or was used to make an outgoing call.
>>
>> I can make educated guesses based on the value of "Caller ID" or
>> "Calling TON" or the combination of "Channel" and "Link", but none of
>> these heuristics seem robust.
>>
>> I've even tried GetVar-ing various channel functions, to no avail.
>>
>> This seems like a case where a simple flag should be set somewhere, but
>> I haven't found one.  What's the most elegant way to do this?  Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Kevin DeGraaf
>>
>> AsterCRM looks like it might fit the bill.
>
> It gets all data from AMI and runs as a daemon that populates a DB.
>
> It's beta, site claims 5 calls for free but I am not sure for beta
> software, I would not pay for Beta software, never used it but it is new.
> .09Beta July 26th 2008
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=202441
>
> http://astercrm.blog.com/
>
> Interesting anyways, seems the concept/code would be easy to reproduce if
> pricing is an issue.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Steve Totaro
> +18887771888 (Toll Free)
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>

Correction, daemon appears to be called astercc.

-- 
Thanks,
Steve Totaro
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