[asterisk-users] How to set name of call wav recording file in outgoing/call file?

2008-06-08 Thread Henry Cobb
When I mv a file to /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing in order to place a call from a user extension that will always be recorded, what parameter do I set in the call file in order to specify an exact name for the wav file? This is on Trixbox and at the moment I'm considering setting an extra variable

[asterisk-users] End to end call monitoring?

2008-04-17 Thread Henry Cobb
We're having some difficulty tying together our Cisco and Audiocodes syslogs with our Trixbox asterisk logs. We'd like to have some way to split out a single call from all the activity going on at one moment. Obviously NTP is the first step for this, but we haven't found any means to tie the

Re: [asterisk-users] does the meetme module still require an external timing source?

2008-04-04 Thread Henry Cobb
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Mike Trest - Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:13 PM 4/1/2008, you wrote: Is app_conference stable now? I've never made it through a thousand calls without a crash. (With a busy call center this doesn't take all that long.) I have deployed a

Re: [asterisk-users] breaking into asterisk channel

2008-04-01 Thread Henry Cobb
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Chaya Zipora Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am setting-up a system to place outgoing calls for a certain number of minutes (as allowed per the customer's account). I would like to break into the long distance channel to announce 1 minute

Re: [asterisk-users] does the meetme module still require an external timing source?

2008-04-01 Thread Henry Cobb
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Michiel van Baak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16:27, Wed 12 Mar 08, Steve Totaro wrote: Try Callweaver. Thanks, Steve Totaro or app_conference for asterisk. That does the trick for me on OpenBSD where you dont have ztdummy. Is app_conference

Re: [asterisk-users] OT But I Would Rather See People Running Asterisk on a Real Server than an Emachine

2008-02-27 Thread Henry Cobb
Out of stock now. Any war stories about running Asterisk on a serious blade setup? Will you ever hire Wesley Snipes to flog them at a convention? -HJC ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing

Re: [asterisk-users] Dell, HP, Digium, homebrew - what do you use

2007-10-08 Thread Henry Cobb
Local (Indian) vendor, Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz, 1 GB RAM, Two 80GB IDE disks, X100P clone. Supports 15 agents as SIP/ulaw to IAX/G.729 bridge running Vicidial ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com--

Re: [asterisk-users] Crontab script to check health of Asterisk server?

2007-07-16 Thread Henry Cobb
On 7/16/07, Dovid B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Define health. I was working on but gave up on it (no time) to have serverA call serverB. ServerB has an agi that it runs that stores info in DB. if serverB doesn't get a call then we know that there are issues (and run the script vice versa).

[asterisk-users] Question about dnsmgr

2007-07-02 Thread Henry Cobb
[Jul 2 09:31:16] VERBOSE[2682] logger.c: == Refreshing DNS lookups. [Jul 2 09:31:16] NOTICE[2682] dnsmgr.c: host 'outbound1.vitelity.net' changed from 64.2.142.17 to 64.2.142.29 [Jul 2 09:31:23] DEBUG[2711] jitterbuf.c: Attempting to exceed Jitterbuf max 600 timeslots And the calls are

Re: [asterisk-users] X100P Clone

2007-06-07 Thread Henry Cobb
On 6/6/07, John Novack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Henry Cobb wrote: Why would anybody plug a telephone line into an X100P clone? ??? What else would one plug into it? We just use them as clock cards for MeetMe and trunking. -HJC ___ --Bandwidth

Re: [asterisk-users] Best Codec

2007-06-07 Thread Henry Cobb
On 6/7/07, Ricardo Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We use G.729. Consumes only 35kbps of bandwidth and has a level 4 (from 0 to 5) of voice quality. We still have very poor public data networks here in Brazil that makes G.711 a very high bandwith consunption codec for us. 35kbps sounds very

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk call quality detection

2007-06-06 Thread Henry Cobb
On 6/6/07, carl Lougher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chaps, Is there a way to detect/highlight poor quality voice calls going through an asterisk server? Was thinking of picking up a cdr record or some other variable showing poor quality on calls when the internet is having issues. Is there any

Re: [asterisk-users] X100P Clone

2007-06-06 Thread Henry Cobb
On 6/5/07, Jared Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most of the clone cards don't support far-end disconnect supervision, so you'll have problems where Asterisk can't tell that the other party has hung up the phone. You'd be better off to buy a modern Asterisk telephony card. Why would anybody

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk call quality detection

2007-06-06 Thread Henry Cobb
On 6/6/07, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I chart VNAKs per hour. Would you care to share how you accomplish this? What programs do you use? grep VNAK /var/log/asterisk/full | cut -d ' ' -f 4 | cut -d : -f 1 | uniq -c Needs a bit of an adjustment between the 1-9th and 10th-31st of the

Re: [asterisk-users] X100P Clone

2007-06-05 Thread Henry Cobb
On 6/5/07, Ronaldo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm planning to buy a X100P clone and would like some feedback about this card. Does anyone already used this card? Does anyone recommend it ? or not? I'd appreciate any comments. If you have a new 3.3v only motherboard then make very sure

Re: [asterisk-users] NAT

2007-06-05 Thread Henry Cobb
On 6/5/07, Iban Lopetegi Zinkunegi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All!! I have my asterisk working in my house (working with mandriva 2007 and asterisk 1.4 svn). I´ve looking on the net but i couldn´t find the way of making work my asterisk in a real enviroment. Seems that the problem of NAT is a

[asterisk-users] Additional commands for MeetMeAdmin

2007-05-24 Thread Henry Cobb
Would anybody mind if the the following command options where added to MeetMeAdmin? 0 - 9, * and # I'm considering hacking the code to add these commands to play the DTMFs to the specified user as tones and hope that the SIP or IAX channels then work with these correctly. -HJC

Re: [asterisk-users] polycom random reboots

2007-03-21 Thread Henry Cobb
On 3/21/07, Louis-David Mitterrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, At one location we have a user whose Polycom IP430 suffers from erratic reboots. We swapped his phone for a brand new one, but the problem remains. Has anyone seen that? Our Polycom 3s and 5s ship with flaky power supplies and

Re: [asterisk-users] Which parameters of a live Asterisk server would you monitor ?

2007-03-20 Thread Henry Cobb
On 3/20/07, Olivier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's say you have an Asterisk server running. Which parameters would you check to improve service continuity ? The tools I tend to use are vmstat, iftop (all VoIP, all the time), show registry and df. -HJC

Re: [asterisk-users] voip-info.org status update

2007-03-15 Thread Henry Cobb
On 3/15/07, Andrew Kohlsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously you didn't read Google's research paper on drive failures. This one? http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.html -HJC ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com --

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Question

2007-03-15 Thread Henry Cobb
On 3/15/07, Chris Nighswonger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. I have not been able to setup the box to call outside, however, watching the packet traffic I see plenty of data flowing from the xlite client to the * server, but never any packets from the server to the client. (That is, during the

Re: [asterisk-users] How many outgoing phone line/voip account do I need?

2007-03-13 Thread Henry Cobb
On 3/12/07, Dave Cotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 20:52 +1100, Paul Hales wrote: More importantly, how many calls per day and how long per call. Then you can figure out the other bits. He wants to make 50 simultaneous calls. What difference does the length and frequency

Re: [asterisk-users] How many outgoing phone line/voip account do I need?

2007-03-13 Thread Henry Cobb
On 3/13/07, Chris Bagnall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: His vindictive dialer isn't playing while it is listening to rings or busy signals. Forgive my ignorance, but what on earth's a vindictive dialer? Is it one with a strong sense of revenge? :-) A normal predictive dialer determines from

Re: [asterisk-users] Which VoIP router and switch to use for medium size business

2007-03-11 Thread Henry Cobb
On 3/10/07, Lacy Moore - Aspendora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/10/07, Henry Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So get a second broadband connection and run only voice on it. Has anyone tried this? I have been thinking about this. We're getting so much spam that I think it's taking up too much

Re: [asterisk-users] Empty Wildcard TDM400P as a MeetMe timer.

2007-03-11 Thread Henry Cobb
It looks like somebody has fixed the X100P v3.3 problem in an outbreak of sanity. (Pity that Digium seems to be in such a hurry to not take my money. Well, other than the G.729 tax.)

Re: [asterisk-users] Which VoIP router and switch to use for medium size business

2007-03-10 Thread Henry Cobb
On 3/9/07, Zeeshan Zakaria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am thinking of going with HWEC and also using a good QoS switch. Right now there is only one switch (don't remember the name) and it is handling all the VoIP and data traffic. Sometimes voice breaks, and it must be because of interference

Re: [asterisk-users] Newbie Question

2007-03-09 Thread Henry Cobb
On 3/9/07, mail-lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [test] disallow=all allow=gsm ;GSM consumes far less bandwidth than ulaw ;allow=ulaw ;allow=alaw Are you sure that the xlite phone can handle gsm?? I use it on Linux and it does. -HJC ___

[asterisk-users] Empty Wildcard TDM400P as a MeetMe timer.

2007-03-08 Thread Henry Cobb
I've just moved into 3.3v PCI servers and found that my clone X100P cards were lying about the 3.3v supported notch. Can I use a Wildcard TDM400P without any modules as a timer for MeetMe in a 64 bit 3.3v server? Will I still need to plug the hard disk power cable into it? Is there a better