On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Geoff Lane wrote: > Hi All, > > Asterisk 1.4.12 on CentOS 5 > > I'd like to be able to look up each incoming CLI to retrieve an > associated name, if available, and then pass that to the extensions so > that they can see both the name and number of the caller. I'm not > after LDAP or anything else maintained externally, just a contact > lookup for my system. > > I suspect that Astdb could be used for this, as could a relational > database like MySQL or postgres (accessed via AGI?) Probably simpler > would be to maintain a text configuration file since I'm only > concerned about less than a hundred entries initially. > > I'd appreciate insight into which is the easiest way to do this, and > also any pointers to tutorials etc.
AstDB: At it's very simplest: exten => s,n,Set(CALLERID(name)=Unknown) exten => s,n,Set(name=${DB(cid/${CALLERID(number)})}) exten => s,n,GotoIf($["${name}" = ""]?endCID) exten => s,n,Set(CALLERID(name)=${name}) exten => s,n(endCID),Noop(fixCallerID - End of processing - returning ${CALLERID(all)}) ... somewhere in the incoming processing. (This is an extract from an overly complcated macro I use) Things to check for - a name already being present - eg. on an incoming SIP call. No name in the astDB - might want to substitute "Unknown" .. All you need to do now is populate the astDB - I use a web interface and some php to drive the manager interface... My biggest site has just under 300 lookup entries... (Which presents other issues with the web interface, but ...) Gordon _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users