On Oct 31, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Jeff LaCoursiere <j...@sunfone.com> wrote:
> This only tells you after it is way too late that you now have upstream > bills to wrangle with your carriers about, or (like in my case) that your > balance is now depeleted, if it trips anything at all. > > In my very recent case only FIVE calls, all placed at the same time, > caused charges of over US$8K as they stayed connected for over two days. > This would not have tripped any erlang threshold, and you don't even know > that it is affecting your balance until the calls cease. It would have alerted me within 24 hours, which would have been 1/2 the cost. Of course I have an average erlong much lower than 5 over 24 hours. How did they get in? Did they guess a password to get in? Was the password a good, complex password? Or did they get in a different way? That said (thinking out long), I might need to add a trigger for long-lived calls. Even one long lived call to the wrong destination would cost significant money. Maybe I should notify on any call longer than 3 hours during the day, 2 hours long at night? I'll have to look through my CDRs to see how often this would trigger in my environment. -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- 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
