[asterisk-users] API Originate Action - distinguishing betweenNoAnswer and Invalid phone number

[Brian K. Alexander, Jr. (Vision Point Systems)]

I have been having a very similar problem. Has anyone here gotten a
DIALSTATUS for calls started with originate? 

I did some research and saw some posts that local channels are the solution
to this problem. However, I could not find examples of how to use local
channels with originate. I could not get it to work. I posted a topic (Using
Local Channels with originate) to this list yesterday with the details about
what I had tried. Maybe you will see what I missed.

-Brian

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Roi Stork
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 6:31 PM
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Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] API Originate Action - distinguishing between
NoAnswer and Invalid phone number

On 2/1/07, Michael Collins <mcollins at fcnetwork.com> wrote:
Is there a way to distinguish between a no answer and an invalid?  For
me, a 'failed' attempt is dialing an invalid number, and I'd like the
CDRs to reflect that.  I'd like a no answer to be as 'successful' as a 
busy.

The ${DIALSTATUS} channel variable stores the result of the dial attempt:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+variable+DIALSTATUS 

You can store it on the CDR's userfield column using the cdr function: 
Set(CDR(userfield)=${DIALSTATUS})

Actually, I can't.  The dialplan execution goes straight to the 'failed'
extension.  When it does so, the DIALSTATUS variable gets cleared out.  I
have this in my dialplan:

exten => failed,n,Noop(Dial status is '${DIALSTATUS}')

The log yields this:
-- Executing NoOp("OutgoingSpoolFailed", "Dial status is ") in new stack

Is there perhaps a way to make DIALSTATUS persist or get populated when the
dialplan hits the failed extension?

-MC
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