[Asterisk-Users] Largest working config files?

[Kevin Walsh]

Steve Davies [davies147 at gmail.com] wrote:
> I hope this is not a FAQ - I have not been able to find it if it is
> covered already... 
> 
> I have a dial-plan on my asterisk system that is becoming potentially
> quite large and complex - Of the order of 12 lines of dialplan per
> extension number. Most of this is in order to record suitable CDR
> data, access voicemail, and play "polite" goodbye messages etc. The
> operation of each extension can potentially be unique, making a common
> [extensions-generic] almost impossible to write.
>
Have you looked into creating a couple of macros to reuse your code?

    [local-extensions]
    exten => 2100,1,Macro(call-local,${EXTEN},cursor,${OPERATOR_EXTEN})
    exten => 2101,1,Macro(call-local,${EXTEN},cursor,${OPERATOR_EXTEN})
    exten => 2102,1,Macro(call-local,${EXTEN},cursor,${OPERATOR_EXTEN})
    exten => 2103,1,Macro(call-local,${EXTEN},cursor,${OPERATOR_EXTEN})
    ...

As you can see, I only need one line per extension;  All of the call
logic is in the [macro-call-local] macro.  The maintenance is a lot
simpler too, of course.

> 
> Does anybody have experience of how big an extensions.conf can get
> before problems start occuring? If anyone has experienced problems, what
> sort of things happen? 
> 
I have no idea.  Here's our dialplan line count (quite small because of
the macros):

     218 extensions/incoming.conf
     354 extensions/internal.conf
     225 extensions/macros.conf
     471 extensions/outgoing.conf
     151 extensions/routes.conf
    1419 total

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