[asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI
I want to track the number of calls up at any given time, through the AMI. I found the Link and Unlink commands as the most likely candidates - is that the right way? Also, a comment on the wiki suggests that Link may be called several times for a single bridge if transcoding is required. That blows up accuracy of my count of course... Ideas? -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI
The simplest way to accurately do this would be to issue command core show channels verbose From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Michelle Dupuis Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 9:58 AM To: Asterisk Users List Subject: [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI I want to track the number of calls up at any given time, through the AMI. I found the Link and Unlink commands as the most likely candidates - is that the right way? Also, a comment on the wiki suggests that Link may be called several times for a single bridge if transcoding is required. That blows up accuracy of my count of course... Ideas? -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI
I need to do this from the AMI (not the CLI)...I don't *think* a comparable command exists from the AMI. As well, I don't want to poll the system for calls so I'm hoping to trap a call bridged,unbridged type event. From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Danny Nicholas [da...@debsinc.com] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 10:59 AM To: Asterisk Users List Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI The simplest way to accurately do this would be to issue command “core show channels verbose” From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Michelle Dupuis Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 9:58 AM To: Asterisk Users List Subject: [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI I want to track the number of calls up at any given time, through the AMI. I found the Link and Unlink commands as the most likely candidates - is that the right way? Also, a comment on the wiki suggests that Link may be called several times for a single bridge if transcoding is required. That blows up accuracy of my count of course... Ideas? -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI
The AMI Command function issues CLI commands, but carry on. From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Michelle Dupuis Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 10:20 AM To: Asterisk Users List Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI I need to do this from the AMI (not the CLI)...I don't *think* a comparable command exists from the AMI. As well, I don't want to poll the system for calls so I'm hoping to trap a call bridged,unbridged type event. _ From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Danny Nicholas [da...@debsinc.com] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 10:59 AM To: Asterisk Users List Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI The simplest way to accurately do this would be to issue command core show channels verbose From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Michelle Dupuis Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 9:58 AM To: Asterisk Users List Subject: [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI I want to track the number of calls up at any given time, through the AMI. I found the Link and Unlink commands as the most likely candidates - is that the right way? Also, a comment on the wiki suggests that Link may be called several times for a single bridge if transcoding is required. That blows up accuracy of my count of course... Ideas? -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI
I guess you are looking for event handler, which can be polled programatically n not via manual command entry? Mitul On Oct 18, 2012 8:53 PM, Danny Nicholas da...@debsinc.com wrote: The AMI Command function issues CLI commands, but carry on. ** ** *From:* asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] *On Behalf Of *Michelle Dupuis *Sent:* Thursday, October 18, 2012 10:20 AM *To:* Asterisk Users List *Subject:* Re: [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI ** ** I need to do this from the AMI (not the CLI)...I don't *think* a comparable command exists from the AMI. As well, I don't want to poll the system for calls so I'm hoping to trap a call bridged,unbridged type event. -- *From:* asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [ asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Danny Nicholas [ da...@debsinc.com] *Sent:* Thursday, October 18, 2012 10:59 AM *To:* Asterisk Users List *Subject:* Re: [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI The simplest way to accurately do this would be to issue command “core show channels verbose” *From:* asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] *On Behalf Of *Michelle Dupuis *Sent:* Thursday, October 18, 2012 9:58 AM *To:* Asterisk Users List *Subject:* [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI I want to track the number of calls up at any given time, through the AMI. I found the Link and Unlink commands as the most likely candidates - is that the right way? Also, a comment on the wiki suggests that Link may be called several times for a single bridge if transcoding is required. That blows up accuracy of my count of course... Ideas? -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI
core show calls works for me on asterisk-11 I know it's a poll, but it's a very simple call ;) On 18 October 2012 16:28, Mitul Limbani mi...@enterux.in wrote: I guess you are looking for event handler, which can be polled programatically n not via manual command entry? Mitul On Oct 18, 2012 8:53 PM, Danny Nicholas da...@debsinc.com wrote: The AMI Command function issues CLI commands, but carry on. From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Michelle Dupuis Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 10:20 AM To: Asterisk Users List Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI I need to do this from the AMI (not the CLI)...I don't *think* a comparable command exists from the AMI. As well, I don't want to poll the system for calls so I'm hoping to trap a call bridged,unbridged type event. From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Danny Nicholas [da...@debsinc.com] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 10:59 AM To: Asterisk Users List Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI The simplest way to accurately do this would be to issue command “core show channels verbose” From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Michelle Dupuis Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 9:58 AM To: Asterisk Users List Subject: [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI I want to track the number of calls up at any given time, through the AMI. I found the Link and Unlink commands as the most likely candidates - is that the right way? Also, a comment on the wiki suggests that Link may be called several times for a single bridge if transcoding is required. That blows up accuracy of my count of course... Ideas? -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- Julian Lyndon-Smith IT Director, Dot R Limited I don’t care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!” The kangaroo dances: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAWl5iYOaUg -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI
Hi, Though I've moved this functionality to freeSWITCH but here is the logic. *AMI approach:* Use perl POE and when received Bridged event increment the counter, and similarly on Hangup decrement the counter. Since I see that there are some issues mentioned by OP so I assume using plain Answer/bridge and hangup events aren't working perfectly. *Dialplan approach:* * * The other alternative simple and effective way is use Dial() command with U or M argument. U command triggers a Subroutine and M executes a Macro Just before connecting/Bridging the call between AB party. There in Macro/Subroutine execute a system() with perl script in it say increment.pl That perl script connects to redis(memcache) and increments the callcounter KVP - thats all. Next on hangup execute the same system() application with perl script in it say decrement.pl - this script in terms decrement the callcounter KVP in redis. Any other applications which needs the call-count should now interface to Redis and fetch the callcounter. I hope I made some sense :) Thanks, Sammy On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Danny Nicholas da...@debsinc.com wrote: The AMI Command function issues CLI commands, but carry on. ** ** *From:* asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] *On Behalf Of *Michelle Dupuis *Sent:* Thursday, October 18, 2012 10:20 AM *To:* Asterisk Users List *Subject:* Re: [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI ** ** I need to do this from the AMI (not the CLI)...I don't *think* a comparable command exists from the AMI. As well, I don't want to poll the system for calls so I'm hoping to trap a call bridged,unbridged type event. -- *From:* asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [ asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Danny Nicholas [ da...@debsinc.com] *Sent:* Thursday, October 18, 2012 10:59 AM *To:* Asterisk Users List *Subject:* Re: [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI The simplest way to accurately do this would be to issue command “core show channels verbose” *From:* asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] *On Behalf Of *Michelle Dupuis *Sent:* Thursday, October 18, 2012 9:58 AM *To:* Asterisk Users List *Subject:* [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI I want to track the number of calls up at any given time, through the AMI. I found the Link and Unlink commands as the most likely candidates - is that the right way? Also, a comment on the wiki suggests that Link may be called several times for a single bridge if transcoding is required. That blows up accuracy of my count of course... Ideas? -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI
On 18 Oct 2012, at 17:19, Michelle Dupuis wrote:
I need to do this from the AMI (not the CLI)...I don't *think* a comparable
command exists from the AMI.
As well, I don't want to poll the system for calls so I'm hoping to trap a
call bridged,unbridged type event.
Michelle,
if you do not want to poll Asterisk with an AMI 'Status' event (that returns a
list of open channels) counting the bridged, unbridged events is possible, but
not that easy..
There are two gotchas around this:
One is that a single call, depending of what the dialplan is doing, can involve
several bridged, unbridged events;
The second is that some kind of calls (I call them 'one legged calls': anything
resembling an IVR or a call to get voicemail) do not get any bridged, unbridged
events, at all. The same applies for calls that are sent to a MeetMe
conference: there you see specific MeetMe events for conference rooms.
If you have access to the dialplan (that is if you are in charge of it and you
can modify it) you could add some user defined events, to mark the 'rising' of
a call and its connection to the far side. The dialplan can send pretty much
what you like by using UserEvent.
As an example:
exten = _00.,n,UserEvent(DNIS-Ext,Exten: ${EXTEN},CallerID:
${CALLERID(num)},DNID: ${CALLERID(dnid)},DisplayID:
${PersonalID_Num},ChannelID: ${CHANNEL},RDNIS: ${RDNIS})
The first string (DNIS-Ext) is a marker: anything that you want to receive that
'brands' the user event to your suiting.
The rest is a list of (name, value) pairs, giving the details you might need on
the AMI processing side.
Beware of any loop in the dialplan: it might be that you will get multiple
copies of the same event, if the dialplan execution is such that the same
extension is visited more than once during the processing of a call.
HTH,
Aldo
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Re: [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI
Considering this your real question I want to track the number of calls up
at any given time, through the AMI
Comparable Command Exists !!
You can simply run CLI commands *through *AMI and receive the response.
Command used for this is itself Command in AMI. If you still want to do
it by counting the event stream then POE is the best solution if you know
PERL, but still why wasting resources in counting events.If you have other
plans like billing then it is understandable otherwise go easy way and add
a cron job or have a UI in php or whatever.
Manager Command:
Command command,all Execute Asterisk CLI Command
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Aldo Bergamini aabe...@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 Oct 2012, at 17:19, Michelle Dupuis wrote:
I need to do this from the AMI (not the CLI)...I don't *think* a
comparable command exists from the AMI.
As well, I don't want to poll the system for calls so I'm hoping to trap
a call bridged,unbridged type event.
Michelle,
if you do not want to poll Asterisk with an AMI 'Status' event (that
returns a list of open channels) counting the bridged, unbridged events is
possible, but not that easy..
There are two gotchas around this:
One is that a single call, depending of what the dialplan is doing, can
involve several bridged, unbridged events;
The second is that some kind of calls (I call them 'one legged calls':
anything resembling an IVR or a call to get voicemail) do not get any
bridged, unbridged events, at all. The same applies for calls that are sent
to a MeetMe conference: there you see specific MeetMe events for conference
rooms.
If you have access to the dialplan (that is if you are in charge of it and
you can modify it) you could add some user defined events, to mark the
'rising' of a call and its connection to the far side. The dialplan can
send pretty much what you like by using UserEvent.
As an example:
exten = _00.,n,UserEvent(DNIS-Ext,Exten: ${EXTEN},CallerID:
${CALLERID(num)},DNID: ${CALLERID(dnid)},DisplayID:
${PersonalID_Num},ChannelID: ${CHANNEL},RDNIS: ${RDNIS})
The first string (DNIS-Ext) is a marker: anything that you want to receive
that 'brands' the user event to your suiting.
The rest is a list of (name, value) pairs, giving the details you might
need on the AMI processing side.
Beware of any loop in the dialplan: it might be that you will get multiple
copies of the same event, if the dialplan execution is such that the same
extension is visited more than once during the processing of a call.
HTH,
Aldo
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Re: [asterisk-users] Counting calls in progress from AMI
Considering this your real question I want to track the number of calls up at any given time, through the AMI Comparable Command Exists !! You can simply run CLI commands through AMI and receive the response. Command used for this is itself Command in AMI. If you still want to do it by counting the event stream then POE is the best solution if you know PERL, but still why wasting resources in counting events.If you have other plans like billing then it is understandable otherwise go easy way and add a cron job or have a UI in php or whatever. Manager Command: Command command,all Execute Asterisk CLI Command You should only use the AMI Command action if there is no other AMI action available to do the job. For instance, the AMI CoreShowChannels action is better than using the CLI core show channels command through AMI. manager show command CoreShowChannels Richard -- _ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
