[Asterisk-Users] OT: HOWTO: Query channel state on an Ateus Voice Blue GSM gateway

[Michiel van Baak]

On 10:08, Wed 29 Mar 06, Colin Anderson wrote:
> Because the VoiceBlue is only 4 channels and I am supporting 100 cell users,
> I needed a way to overflow calls to the PRI of all 4 channels are full.
> Unfortunately, there seems to be no built-in mechanism to determine if the
> gateway is full, so this script parses the output of "asterisk -rx sip show
> channels XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX" to determine the number of channels currently in
> use. Hope this helps someone. 

We use SetGroup and CheckGroup for this (I know, I should
upgrade to 1.2 dialplan functions)

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