[Asterisk-Users] Detecting a PRI failure from dialplan

[tim panton]

On 20 Jan 2006, at 11:49, Alessio Focardi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if there is a way to detect the status of a span
> prior of sendig a call across it from the dialplan.
>
> I was asked to set up an * server with 2 spans connected to the  
> telco and use the second as
> failover for the first.
>
> I checked that dialing a failed span (for instance: cable  
> disconnected or
> no line) results in "congestion" for ${DIALSTATUS}, but message is too
> generic for my use.
>
> Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated, tnx!

I find the best way to check the status of a PRI is to look in
/proc/zaptel/1 or /proc/zaptel/2 etc

You'd have to do some work integrating this into the dialplan,
but you could set a global variable or something.

Tim.

http://www.westhawk.co.uk/

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