[Asterisk-Users] Hint: how to include dialplan files from remotesystems

[Giovanni Miano]

You can use EAGI

2005/12/2, Alexander Lopez <alex.lopez at opsys.com>:
> Good Idea. I am doing a similar thing but for a different reason:
>
>  I use the system call to bring in mp3 files for music on hold. We make
> custom Music on Hold messages and we store them at our DC. I am also
> using this to pull mp3 updates for holiday music.
>
> Try doing any of this with any OTHER PBX!!! Betcha can't!!!!
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> > [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of
> > John Todd
> > Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 9:52 PM
> > To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> > Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Hint: how to include dialplan files
> > from remotesystems
> >
> >
> > Every once in a while I find a nice, compact little project
> > is good enough to share to the rest of the user community as
> > a single post.  Here's something that I was happy worked as
> > planned.  This is not particularly clever, but uses some
> > infrequently-used tricks of running system commands from
> > within Asterisk in two different ways: System and #exec.
> > File this away under the heading of "Not really clever, but
> > impresses management."
> >
> > I've got a user community who doesn't want to log into their
> > Asterisk servers much, but they have general housekeeping
> > tasks they want to perform on their dialplan which is really
> > just mapping usernames to extension (for SIP tasks, so that
> > "jwhorfin" ends up calling "Zap/g1/2939")  This shouldn't
> > involve them doing anything other than updating a file
> > somewhere.  They know how to put files on a webserver, so the
> > trick was how to make them able to edit this file on their
> > "easy-to-use" webserver and make it magically appear on the
> > "somewhat opaque" Asterisk system.  I gave them a template
> > file for them to store on their well-understood and
> > internally accessible webserver, that they can edit with
> > WordPad or other text editors.  This means that they don't
> > have to learn any significant processes to update the list of
> > user-to-number mappings if they know how to publish something
> > on their webserver.  Here's the template example:
> >
> >
> > ; -- Start File --
> > ; Template for usernames-to-numbers
> > ;
> > ; Save in the "privatefiles" directory of the public ;
> > webserver, accessible by anyone.
> > ;
> > ; Comments start with the semi-colon character ; ; After
> > making changes on this list and saving it ;  to the
> > webserver, you must call ext. 2900 to ;  cause the Asterisk
> > system to update itself ;  with the contents of this file.
> > ;
> > [username-to-numbers]
> > exten => jwhorfin,1,Dial(Zap/g1/2939)
> > exten => rnevada,1,Dial(Zap/g1/2988)
> > ;
> > ; -- end file --
> > ;
> >
> >
> > So, in the dialplan, here's what I do to include this file
> > (note that the "echo" user is just to illustrate that other
> > "names" can be included in the chain of contexts manually):
> >
> > ; ...more extensions.conf above here.
> > ;
> > [from-internet]
> > ;
> > ; If any calls come in to user "echo", play back an echo test
> > ; exten => echo,1,Set(TIMEOUT(absolute)=500 exten =>
> > echo,n,Echo ; ; Now, include any users that have been
> > configured by the client..
> > ;
> > ; (watch out for accidental line wraps here!  Next two lines
> > start with "#") #exec /usr/bin/curl -s
> > http://webserver.domain.com/privatefiles/username-to-numbers
> > > /etc/asterisk/username-to-numbers #include
> > username-to-numbers include => username-to-numbers ; ; ; more
> > extensions.conf below here...
> > ;
> > ;
> >
> > Now, just as trivially clever is that in a different context
> > (from their PBX) I can allow them to dial a "special" number
> > that allows the administrator to re-load/re-parse this file at will:
> >
> > ;
> > [from-pbx]
> > ;
> > exten => 2900,1,System(/usr/sbin/asterisk -rx "extensions reload") ;
> >
> >
> > Don't forget to add this set of 2 lines to asterisk.conf to
> > allow the config files to execute commands with "#exec":
> >
> > [options]
> > execincludes=yes
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > JT
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