[asterisk-users] shut down a single PRI on a running Asterisk system?

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Wednesday 06 May 2009 12:04:08 James Van Vleet wrote:
> We are wondering if there is any way to shut down a single PRI without
> having to down Asterisk and/or interrupt other running PRI circuits.
>
> We use Asterisk servers with 4 port Digium PRI cards.   In the last few
> days we ran into a situation where the 3 of the 4 PRIs were operating
> fine and had live calls on them while the 4th was going up and down.
>
> The server is remote and so physically pulling the cable is not a quick
> option.  I did find one posting asking this question over a year ago and
> being told there was no way - I would like to confirm before we possibly
> change over our design - having a router or other device terminate the
> PRIs may be required if we cannot take a single circuit out service.
>
> Currently running Asterisk 1.4.18.1 but we are also interested if this
> is implemented in other versions.  Also interested if any has other
> solutions to this problem.

In trunk (1.6.3 and later), we have a command "pri service disable channel"
for doing this exact procedure.  Support for this has been a long time coming,
as the patch came from issue 3450 (http://bugs.digium.com/view.php?id=3450).

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Tilghman