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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Leandro Dardini<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 03, 2013 2:53 AM<br><b>To:</b> Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [asterisk-users] DAHDI: How to know since when it is used? How to shutdown after max time?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>2013/1/3 bilal ghayyad <<a href="mailto:bilmar_gh@yahoo.com" target="_blank">bilmar_gh@yahoo.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi;<br><br>How can I know the duration that the DAHDI channel is still used? I need to know its status and since when it is in this status, how?<br><br>Also, is it possible to hangup the channel if it has been openned more than 90 minute? Other than using the timeout in the Dial command (because this I know it).<br><br>What is happening with me that from time to time, I find some DAHDI channels are stayed connected (stuck) for long time. I know how to write the extensions.conf in a way to handle the hangup properly, also I send the incoming calls to the voicemail to be sure it is hanged up properly. One more thing, I set the rtptimeout in case there is any problem in the sip phone and the network .. But, still after sometime, I am surprised that some channels are stuck and stayed connected and then I have to reset it manually !! This is happening only in the analoge channels.<br><br>What other than the rtptimeout, the hangup in the extensions.conf, the voicemail? Is there anything I have to take care for it that might cause this stuck and keeping the channel openned?<br><br>By the way, for such cases, what should I place the value of the rtpkeepalive as currently it is 0?<br><br>What other things I have to take care for it?<br><br>Regards<br>Bilal<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I checked on my PBX and I find no way to identify the duration of a call involving a DAHDI channel like it happens on SIP channels. I think the only way will be to assign a not so huge AbsoluteTimeout to each call. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>My suggestion would be to either do a cron job that executes asterisk –rx “core show channels verbose” and kill anything with a duration over 90 minutes or do the same thing with an AMI task (cron optional here).</span> <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>