[asterisk-users] Can AGI do this?

[Bret Schuhmacher]

Please pardon the absolute noob questions.  Someone has asked me to 
interface with Asterisk and have it dial 4 numbers in succession to have 
it track down an on-call person.

My initial reaction was to write an AGI program and return all 4 numbers 
and have Asterisk hunt them - can Asterisk do this?

If not, is it possible to write an AGI program that gets all 4 numbers, 
then somehow hands them one-by-one to Asterisk?  If so, how does 
Asterisk manage the communication of "failed to complete the call" with 
the AGI app?  Does the AGI just monitor stdin looking for status 
messages and returns the next number?

If Asterisk/AGI can do both, is the first method better than the 
second?  It certainly seems easier.

Thanks in advance!

Rgds,

Bret