[asterisk-users] How to "busy out" zap channels

[Wai Wu]

Very nasty indeed. Through my experience with PRI, the TelCo switchs are
not that present to deal with. Your method will work, kind of. However,
if the TelCo decides to send you a call during that split second of
idle, how are you going to handle it. The best way is still to call your
TelCo to take the span down. 

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Brian Roy
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 3:54 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: [asterisk-users] How to "busy out" zap channels


I know this topic came up many months back and some discussions were
being had on how to do this within the Zaptel drivers. However, I'm
looking for even a crude hack that someone has put together to get this
done. 
 
We have PRI's and LD T1's that are load balanced on two boxes. The hunt
order goes from box to box as far as the spans are concerned. There are
times that I would like to busy one out so that calls gradually role to
the new box and I can eventually take one out of service. What I was
thinking is to create a script that I could tell the specific channels
and it would go through and initiate zap calls to an empty meetme.
Basically bridging all of the available zap channels on a given span
together. Then the trick is monitoring the hangups so that it can
initiate a subsequent call immediately following. Once all of the
channels in a span have been bridged, I can then bring the box down.
Nasty huh? 
 
Anyone have a better idea? Or do they have anything like this so I'm not
putting it together?
 
Thanks,
 
-Brian
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