Hi All,
Just wanted to share a story: We turned up a new customer yesterday evening, typical situation, Cisco 2600 Router with T1 PRI card pointed to the customer's analog PBX with 2 data T1's linked back to our network. The router PRI was configured as a gateway on our CCM 4, like we've done numerous times in the past. The customer needed LD Authorization codes enabled, got the list 400+, and configured them in the CCM, no problem. We started passing calls, local was fine but the LD would not work, turned the LD codes off and LD would work. After engaging Cisco TAC, was informed that LD coded do not work with this type of gateway device. After strapping on my Asterisk-Orange Super-Engineer Cape and Goggles, I told my Cisco Guy to prepend all the LD traffic with a 3 digit code and send it to one of my Cluster Asterisk Servers. I put in a pattern for matching just this customers LD traffic as so: exten => _5551NXXNXXXXXX,1,Answer exten => _5551NXXNXXXXXX,2,Set(CDR(userfield)=Company LD) exten => _5551NXXNXXXXXX,3,Authenticate(/etc/asterisk/companyld.codes|a) exten => _5551NXXNXXXXXX,4,Goto(ccmtrunkld|${EXTEN:3}|1) ;Answer because the authenticate cmd sends audio back to the caller ;set the CDR userfield to the company name ;Authenticate with file where the LD codes are stored, 'a' option puts the LD code in the CDR accountcode field ;strip the 555 off and pass the LD call outbound So now all the LD traffic from this customer can be authenticated from the codes in the file companyld.codes, the CDR is updated properly for parsing the LD and generates a nice monthly report for tracking who is using LD for this customer. I guess I'm feeling grateful that the Cisco Gateway is passing calls in the first place, but it would have been nice for the Cisco CM and the Cisco Gateway to play nice together. The real hero here is Asterisk, Digium, and the Community that supports it! Thank you All JR JR Richardson Engineering for the Masses
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