With multiple inbound PRIs (and hunting across them) coming to multiple
[asterisk] servers it is important to be able to do administration, i.e.
control which PRIs in the same hunt group take (and which don't take)
calls from telco at any given period of time.
Our pre-asterisk platform uses SERVICE commands for this purpose to put B-channels
into 'out-of-service'/'maintenance' or 'in-service' state.
What is (would be) the asterisk solution? The current libpri doesn't send any
SERVICE commands, just acks the incoming ones.
Sounds like this could be extended to affect all * channel types. So, the command "channel SIP/ernest quiesce" should have the same logical effect as "channel ZAP/1 quiesce". Write this into the channel drivers and let them take care of sending whatever up/down/quiesce/loopback/etc signals need to be sent. Just a thought.
--Ernest
