[asterisk-users] cdr viewer for csv

[binary dreamer]

already logrotate is doing the file split every month.
how do you serve it in a webpage and which CGI script?


On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:18 PM, A J Stiles
<asterisk_list at earthshod.co.uk>wrote:

> On Thursday 24 Apr 2014, binary dreamer wrote:
> > hello everyone.
> > I am running asterisk and all of my CDRs are in the default csv.
> > the system is so limited to ram (only 256) and I cannot run MySQL or any
> > other program to give CDRs a fancy view.
> > at the moment the only other software running is nginx for a static
> webpage
> > with guidance on the system.
> > I do now want to move to sql or similar databases because the machine
> > cannot handle it (I have already tried and it wastes ram from calls).
> >
> >
> > is there a way to present to a webpage the CDRs from the csv, please?
>
> If you can't stretch to a separate machine to run a database  (even a
> scrapper
> will do for this)  and you can't increase the RAM in your Asterisk machine,
> then you will have to resort to manipulating the CSV file.
>
> Use a cron job to rotate the master CDR daily or weekly, to keep it from
> becoming unmanageably large.  This needs to be done at a time when you are
> not
> expecting any incoming calls.  You really need to stop Asterisk while you
> do
> this and restart it afterwards.  The whole operation  (cp Master.csv
> cdr_$DATE.csv; echo -n "" > Master.csv)  should be over within a few
> ringing
> periods; so even if a call does come through in the meantime, Asterisk
> ought
> to just pick it up as soon as it restarts.
>
> Then write a simple CGI script to serve up the cdr*.csv files.  As long as
> you
> send the appropriate content-type, then it ought just to open straight up
> in
> OpenOffice.org calc.
>
>
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