[asterisk-users] CDR Design

[Andrew Thomas]

Thanks for this Greyman - it's all beginning to make sense now ;).

I agree that the 'loss of CDR upon txfr' is a nasty bug which does need
to be addressed before anything else (assuming it hasn't been already).

But, wouldn't it be better if you could ignore the CDR's completely and
use an event based system?  This would give you ALL the information you
need.  All that remains is to filter out the un-required bits.

Like I said earlier - the CDR's aren't reliable enough for a billing
platform (as you've rightly pointed out) but are OK for very basic call
logging (something the customer can look at).

Hopefully, the murf'ster will chirp in here :).

Cheers
Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Grey Man
Sent: 05 December 2008 09:37
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] CDR Design

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:26 AM, Andrew Thomas <andy at datavox.co.uk>
wrote:
>
> In summary: Leave CDR exactly as it is and create a new CEL (Call
Event
> Logging) module (optional in modules.conf) that puts out (and does not
> accept) call event information (ie. a one-way fire-and-forget output
> from Asterisk).
>

Hi Andrew and Others,

This thread is actually part of a discussion that has been going on
for over a year. The links below provide the background to the whole
thing.

http://www.asterisk.org/node/48358
http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=11849
http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2008-January/204856.htm
l

Up until recently the approach was to try and fix the specific bugs
with transfer CDRs as a typical bug. There is now a realisation that
that is a lot trickier than inially thought so it's been decided to
try and come up with a good design for the Asterisk CDR sub-system.

Regards,

Greyman.

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