Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-26 Thread Raimund Sacherer
oh boy, On Aug 25, 2009, at 10:05 PM, Alex Balashov wrote: I've never seen that, myself. But I have no trouble believing it. That problem - along with Asterisk's other scalability quirks - must be properly managed. More boxes to spread the calls onto and underutilising the hardware on

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-26 Thread Steve Totaro
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Raimund Sacherer r...@runsolutions.comwrote: oh boy, On Aug 25, 2009, at 10:05 PM, Alex Balashov wrote: I've never seen that, myself. But I have no trouble believing it. That problem - along with Asterisk's other scalability quirks - must be

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-26 Thread Raimund Sacherer
On Aug 26, 2009, at 10:40 AM, Steve Totaro wrote: One of the last things you want to do as the guy who handles the system is do a full reboot when Asterisk becomes completely unresponsive, you have hundreds of agents sitting idle and even more customers calling in. Amen brother!

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-26 Thread Alex Balashov
I'm not sure I accurately understood the problem, but it sounds like this is a failure to use non-blocking I/O on the client? Raimund Sacherer wrote: oh boy, On Aug 25, 2009, at 10:05 PM, Alex Balashov wrote: I've never seen that, myself. But I have no trouble believing it. That

[asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-25 Thread Sanjoy Rath
Hello, I am developing an asterisk autodialer. I am looking for the following information: 1. Detailed Configuration Documentation for Asterisk Autodialer 2. Volume Testing Strategy 3. Lessons Learnt from past Asterisk Autodialer configuration 4. What are the different asterisk

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-25 Thread Steve Totaro
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Sanjoy Rath sanjoy_r...@hotmail.comwrote: Hello, I am developing an asterisk autodialer. I am looking for the following information: 1. Detailed Configuration Documentation for Asterisk Autodialer 2. Volume Testing Strategy 3. Lessons Learnt from past

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-25 Thread Geraint Lee
For someone who is developing an 'autodialer' you are asking for an awful lot! I would recommend getting to grips with asterisk before even considering developing a dialer... question 1 - aren't you developing your own so why would you need documentation for another? or... why not use the other?

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-25 Thread Sanjoy Rath
That was quite a helpful reply. Cheers, SR. Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:40:20 +0100 From: gera...@gmail.com To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer For someone who is developing an 'autodialer' you are asking for an awful lot! I would

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-25 Thread Sanjoy Rath
Thanks Steve for helpful reply. Cheers, SR. Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:26:37 -0400 From: stot...@first-notification.com To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Sanjoy Rath sanjoy_r...@hotmail.com wrote

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-25 Thread Alex Balashov
...@first-notification.com To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Sanjoy Rath sanjoy_r...@hotmail.com mailto:sanjoy_r...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello, I am developing an asterisk autodialer. I am

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-25 Thread Sanjoy Rath
not want reinvent the wheel) or else (as sadi before) I will figure out. Thanks, Sanjoy. Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:24:36 -0400 From: abalas...@evaristesys.com To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer If you don't see why you are getting

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-25 Thread Danny Nicholas
-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Sanjoy Rath Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 10:48 AM To: Asterisk-Users Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer Alex, You are right. My questions are probably wide open. I probably would have

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-25 Thread Sanjoy Rath
Hi Danny, Thanks so much for your response. I have used call files to autodial too. Can this be used for large volume calls? Thanks,Sanjoy. From: da...@debsinc.com To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:07:04 -0500 Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-25 Thread Miguel Molina
Sanjoy Rath escribió: Anyways I checked VOIP-info.org the information there was pretty basic. I was trying to get some more insight to this autodialer stuff. If there is something I can take leverage of that will be great (because I do not want reinvent the wheel) or else (as sadi before) I

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-25 Thread Danny Nicholas
: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 11:23 AM To: Asterisk-Users Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer Hi Danny, Thanks so much for your response. I have used call files to autodial too. Can this be used for large volume calls? Thanks, Sanjoy. _ From: da...@debsinc.com

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-25 Thread Alex Balashov
s, etc. From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users- boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Sanjoy Rath Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 11:23 AM To: Asterisk-Users Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer Hi Danny, Thanks so much for your response. I have used

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-25 Thread Sanjoy Rath
Danny, Thanks for your response. Thanks,Sanjoy. From: da...@debsinc.com To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:34:29 -0500 Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer That would be a qualified yes. The problem you will face is this; Say you

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-25 Thread Sanjoy Rath
Thanks Miguel. Have your configured GNUDialer before? Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:22:16 -0500 From: mmol...@millenium.com.co To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer Sanjoy Rath escribió: Anyways I checked VOIP-info.org the information

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-25 Thread Sanjoy Rath
-users@lists.digium.com Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:46:41 -0400 CC: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer AMI is definitely the more sophisticated and less naive way to overcome these problems, and will definitely provide the maximum level of event feedback

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-25 Thread Alex Balashov
Sanjoy Rath wrote: I would prefer to use AMI. Let me start looking into AMI. I would like to include functionalities like upload numbers to call from an interface, i want reports back numbers called, setup call time etc. Let me look up AMI. Thanks Alex for the info. Yep. If you need that

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-25 Thread Pascal Bruno
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Alex Balashov abalas...@evaristesys.comwrote: Sanjoy Rath wrote: I would prefer to use AMI. Let me start looking into AMI. I would like to include functionalities like upload numbers to call from an interface, i want reports back numbers called, setup call

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-25 Thread Alex Balashov
Pascal Bruno wrote: I do not quite agree, I have developed a system exactly like that using call files, and I do have an interface to upload the numbers to call, you can setup call time, and the the delay to wait between each call. To me it was very straight forward and it works great,

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-25 Thread Pascal Bruno
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Alex Balashov abalas...@evaristesys.comwrote: With enough spiritual commitment, anything can be done; you certainly *can* do it this way. You can write a fairly sophisticated dialer in Bash, too. The issue is whether it is methodologically correct and

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-25 Thread Steve Totaro
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Pascal Bruno tipas...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Alex Balashov abalas...@evaristesys.comwrote: With enough spiritual commitment, anything can be done; you certainly *can* do it this way. You can write a fairly sophisticated dialer

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-25 Thread Alex Balashov
Steve Totaro wrote: Agreed, simple cron jobs can count and distribute call files across servers with very little scripting. It is simple, and simple and efficient, and that is good. If the requirements are also simple, I'd be the last to argue with the simplest approach. In every case in

Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer

2009-08-25 Thread Edwin Quijada
...@hotmail.com To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:19:52 + Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk Autodialer Thanks Miguel. Have your configured GNUDialer before? Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:22:16 -0500 From: mmol...@millenium.com.co To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com