Mitch Thompson wrote:
I'm looking for some help from any Asterisk "heavy" who might be doing
something similar to what I'm trying to do...
Background:
I work for a research lab, testing telephony products and tools.
Historically, we used Ameritec Crescendos and Fortissimos to act as load
generators and call "sinks" when testing equipment. However, the
equipment we are testing gets more and more complex, and the scripted
scenarios the Ameritecs give have become a limiting factor for testing.
Therefore, Asterisk was chosen as a possible solution (we're a cheap lab).
I've been learning Asterisk as I go, but I've learned a lot. Here's the
basic scenario:
We are using an Asterisk (AAH 2.8, specifically) to sink calls. I do
this by taking the ${EXTEN} and breaking it down by sections until I get
to the last 4 digits (i.e., 2105551212). Once I get to the 4-digit
extension, I am trying to set a flag, or semaphore, to do Busy/Idle
testing. Here is my extensions_custom.conf fragment:
[SATX_555_Extensions]
exten => 1212,1,System(cat /tmp/{orig_num}) ; ${orig_num} is set at the
beginning of [from-trunk-custom] to the full dialed digits in ${EXTEN},
before I break it down.
exten => 1212,n,Busy(); if the file exists, someone else has already
called this number, return busy
exten => 1212,102,System(echo ${UNIQUEID} > /tmp/${orig_num}) ;
basically, create a file in /tmp whose name is the full number from the
beginning. In this case, the full
; filename would be /tmp/2105551212. I don't really care about the
contents, though.
exten => 1212,103, Goto(Idle,1) ; from here, we jump to a new extension
called Idle, where we do a Random to decide whether to simulate no one
home (ring no answer) or
; we send ring for
about 10 seconds, then Answer() and play some .wav files, then hangup.
The last thing we do in either case is to delete
; the
/tmp/${orig_num} file.
The above code works very well at low call volumes. However, I'm
running into race conditions at high call volumes where several calls
are getting through the test in priority 1 before the file is created in
priority 102 (n+101).
I've tried to implement semaphores by using both local and global
variables, but it doesn't seem to work.
My ultimate question: Is anyone doing something similar, and what did
you do to implement the busy/idle.
I appreciate any help anyone can offer.
Mitch Thompson
Hi,
dont know if this is what you looking for but, there is something called macroexclusive, new in 1.4,
written by Steve Davies.
Read the file in asterisk-1.4.0/docs.
HTH
--
thanks,
Yusuf
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