[asterisk-users] Capture queue agent drop and put caller back in queue

[Benny Amorsen]

Christopher Harrington <chris at acsdi.com> writes:

> Since nobody seems to have come up with an Asterisk-specific solution, it
> sounds like the real approach here is something more generic.
> You can set up Nagios to fire off an event if it detects endpoints or
> infrastructure are suddenly dead. In particular, Nagios could launch a
> program written for this purpose, passing the endpoints it detects are
> missing, and that program could then query Asterisk via AMI about the call
> IDs each endpoint is a participant in, then do a forced-transfer to a
> dedicated queue that announces the failure condition to the caller. This
> AMI could also conveniently remove the dead endpoints from the existing
> queues (including the failover queue).

Can a Nagios-based solution provide quicker failover than the 90 seconds
provided by sip timers or the 10-30 seconds provided by rtptimeout?


/Benny