<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:38 AM, David de Boer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:boerdedavid@gmail.com">boerdedavid@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm currently working on a PHP web interface to show (1) the registered endpoints and (2) their status: available, outgoing call or incoming call. (In the future, this interface should also be able to redirect calls etc.)<br>
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(1) The interface already shows a list of all registered endpoints. For this, I had to work around Asterisk's delay in monitoring when an endpoint is unregistered. What I the interface does, is ping each endpoint to make sure it is still registered. Is there a better way to retrieve the endpoints still registered, instead of those that were registered an hour or so ago but might be unregistered already?<br>
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(2) For each registered endpoint, the status needs to be displayed in the web interface. As I see it, there are two ways to retrieve this information. (a) Either I pull the information from Asterisk, by using some kind of "core show channels" command. I tried to use CDR to write calls made by the endpoints to a database. This works, but the rows are only written when a call is disconnected; I want to be able to see the status before that. (b) Another way is to keep track of notifications sent by endpoints. This is what I'm doing now. I added "action URIs" to all phones to make them send their data to a URL when they initiate a call, end a call etc. At that URL, a PHP script reads the data and saves it to a database. This works, but it feels like writing functionality that might already be available in Asterisk itself.<br>
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Are there any other (better ways)? Which of the methods would be fastest for a large number of endpoints, and most reliable? Any help is greatly appreciated.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br>You should do a google for "Asterisk Manager Interface". :)<br>