On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, Simon Green wrote:
Hi there, I’m new to Asterisk and there’s a ton of documentation. I’m
not really sure where to start. What I want to do is this: a PBX service
ala FreePBX, but where call control is passed via SIP to an external
service which will tell Asterisk:
a) * Whether the call is allowed
b) * Where to connect the call, if necessary (i.e. forced
redirection to a C-party)
c) * To disconnect the call at some time in future based on
charging considerations (i.e. online charging)
It depends...
You could probably do all of this just using dialplan logic and Asterisk's
internal database.
If you are looking to build a system that will scale, you'll want to store
your call processing parameters in a database like MySQL and access the
parameters using an AGI (an external program written in any language
you are comfortable with) and then write a dialplan to follow your
business logic.
While the dialplan language does include methods to access databases, I
find it cumbersome, limited, and ugly. I like to keep all the nasty
details in a little black box and keep my dialplan clean and maintainable.
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Thanks in advance,
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