[asterisk-users] cdr viewer for csv

[Josh Metzger]

With such a low amount of calls per month and with the extreme memory
limitations, it might be easier to write a script to pull out the data and
generate a static html page.  Run it daily / weekly / whenever you need it.



On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:28 AM, binary dreamer <dreamer.binary at gmail.com>wrote:

> already logrotate is doing the file split every month.
> how do you serve it in a webpage and which CGI script?
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:18 PM, A J Stiles <asterisk_list at earthshod.co.uk
> > wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 24 Apr 2014, binary dreamer wrote:
>> > hello everyone.
>> > I am running asterisk and all of my CDRs are in the default csv.
>> > the system is so limited to ram (only 256) and I cannot run MySQL or any
>> > other program to give CDRs a fancy view.
>> > at the moment the only other software running is nginx for a static
>> webpage
>> > with guidance on the system.
>> > I do now want to move to sql or similar databases because the machine
>> > cannot handle it (I have already tried and it wastes ram from calls).
>> >
>> >
>> > is there a way to present to a webpage the CDRs from the csv, please?
>>
>> If you can't stretch to a separate machine to run a database  (even a
>> scrapper
>> will do for this)  and you can't increase the RAM in your Asterisk
>> machine,
>> then you will have to resort to manipulating the CSV file.
>>
>> Use a cron job to rotate the master CDR daily or weekly, to keep it from
>> becoming unmanageably large.  This needs to be done at a time when you
>> are not
>> expecting any incoming calls.  You really need to stop Asterisk while you
>> do
>> this and restart it afterwards.  The whole operation  (cp Master.csv
>> cdr_$DATE.csv; echo -n "" > Master.csv)  should be over within a few
>> ringing
>> periods; so even if a call does come through in the meantime, Asterisk
>> ought
>> to just pick it up as soon as it restarts.
>>
>> Then write a simple CGI script to serve up the cdr*.csv files.  As long
>> as you
>> send the appropriate content-type, then it ought just to open straight up
>> in
>> OpenOffice.org calc.
>>
>>
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>> AJS
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