[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk RealTime Question, Please help

[mkumar at mantragroup.com]

Hi Benchev,

Thanks a lot for your replies.

I understood that without mentioning context names in Extensions.conf 
we cannot
configure contexts in Asterisk Realtime.

Thanks and Regards,
Manoj.

Quoting Benchev <bbench at mail.bg>:

>> >> I need many contexts because I have around 1000 DID's each with 5-10
>> >> Extensions.
>> >> These DID numbers are changed or added very frequently and whenever
>> >> there is a change I have to change Extensions.conf manually. So please
>> >> tell me how can I do this dynamically without changing Extensions.conf
>> >> and help me configure Asterisk.
>> >
>> > I presume you have about 1000 DID numbers and each of this numbers
>> > may ring to
>> > 5-10 users of yours, right?
>> >
>> > If so, make a context in you extensions.conf and include in it a switch
>> > like that:
>> > [ever_changing_dids]
>> > switch => Realtime/ever_changing_dids at extensions
>> >
>> > Now you can insert in your extensions_table imaginary DID 9876543210:
>> >
>> > INSERT INTO `extensions_table` VALUES ('', 'ever_changing_dids',
>> > '9876543210',
>> > 1, 'Dial', 'SIP/user1:SIP/user2:SIP/user3:SIP/user4:SIP/user8:SIP/user12|
>> > 20');
>> > You can do that for many thousands of DIDs without changing
>> > extensions.conf.
>> >
>> My current setup is exactly similar to which you have suggested. My DID
>> numbers
>> are added or changed very frequently and all the time I have to change some
>> config file manually and should reload Asterisk or atleast call Extensions
>> reload. I do want these things to be manual, Can't I have the Asterisk to
>> directly get the contexts from Mysql DB without giving them in config
>> files? If
>> this is possible then we can have a realtime dynamic Asterisk.
>>
>> The other approcah can be to match the context itself with some regular
>> expression. But I do not know how do this or whether this is possible? I
>> will have a context something like this
>>
>> [XXXXXXXXXX]
>> switch => Realtime/@extensions
>>
>> So all contexts will be directed to Mysql DB matching regex but
>> [XXXXXXXXXX] is
>> not acting as regex as expected it just matches context XXXXXXXXXX.
> I am afraid I'm loosing you.
> However,  try to change in extconfig.conf
> extentions => mysql,astcc,extensions_table
> to:
> exten_sions => mysql,astcc,extensions_table
> and then switch => Realtime/@exten_sions
> Then in extensions.conf:
> [inbound]
> switch => Realtime/@exten_sions
> In mysql do:
> INSERT INTO `extensions_table` VALUES ('', 'inbound',
> '9876543210', 1, 'Dial', 'SIP/user1|20');
>
> *CLI> show dialplan inbound
> should show: Alt. Switch =>  'Realtime/@exten_sions'
> not what you have used to see with a static extensions.conf but you can do:
> server*CLI> realtime load exten_sions context inbound
>                   Column Name  Column Value
>          --------------------  --------------------
>                            id  1
>                       context  inbound
>                         exten  9876543210
>                      priority  1
>                           app  Dial
>                       appdata  SIP/user1|20
> and see how realtime took that.
>
> On the other hand, no you can not create contexts on the fly and
> out of nothing. Actually the context scheme is the backbone of your system
> and should be thought over and set up beforehand.
> The connection between particular context and realtime is the switch.
> When you insert into  the extensions_table a set, which context corresponds
> to where the switchis, and this is read in realtime without the need of
> reloading.
> Pretty much that's all I can do to help. Sorry.
>
> Benchev
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