[asterisk-users] Urgent question.

[Philip Prindeville]

If the hunt-group is properly done, you should be able to "busy-out" 
members of a trunk for maintenance.

Otherwise, if the individual trunks have numbers (unpublished) assigned 
to all the circuits in the group, you could always send a Redirect() to 
that any of the other trunks' numbers.

-Philip

Alex Balashov wrote:
> Our provider gives us four PRIs as a trunk group hunt group.  Meaning, the 
> provider's switch will cycle through B channels in span 1, 2, 3, ... until 
> it finds one that is available.
>
> I have moved spans 2-4 onto another machine.  But we have one remaining
> box with a PRI full of calls and I don't know what to do with them; the
> box is failing, but dropping them by simply yanking the PRI is not
> acceptable from a business POV.
>
> Sending Congestion() or Busy() in the dial plan wouldn't work because
> the far-end switch would simply pass that onto the subscriber, rather
> interpreting it to mean that the B channel is unavailable and it should
> go on to other T1s in the trunk group.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
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> Alex Balashov
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