[Asterisk-Dev] libpri: mgt controls

[C. Maj]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Mike M waxed:

> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 03:19:19PM -0400, izo wrote:
> > > Is it true that Asterisk PRI D channels always try to be "up" and there
> > > are no user level controls to disable/enable it?
> >
> > AFAIK you can disable channels by not including them in
> > /etc/zaptel.conf and /etc/asterisk/zapata.conf but to make changes
> > you'd have to restart application which in that case means that if you
> > had other PRI's that were up they'll go down.
>
> I was looking for controls to change the D channel state under user
> control while Asterisk is running.  I was curious because I wanted to
> see how they worked in the code if they existed.  I think you're indirectly
> telling such controls don't exist.

You'd need to hack a CLI control into chan_zap and let it
call stuff in libpri.  Some masking of the propagated
d-channel down events from libpri to chan_zap would be
needed, otherwise, * will try to get it up for you.

> I'm going to trying patching q931.c to display contents of the "struct pri"
> objects so I can watch them change as they go through their lifecycle.
> I only have one PRI right now so I guess that I would have a single
> "struct pri" object.

There's also "pri debug" and "pri intense debug" CLI
commands to log d-channel activity.


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