On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Andrew Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "I'd disagree. In some cases a event based system would be the best > solution, but in systems with high call volumes, scanning through events > > looking for the proper billing information and parsing them would be a > hard job compared to CDRs." > > That's just it - you wouldn't be 'scanning' any CDR's - you'd be given > Events. Your 3rd party app could then do anything it wanted to with > them. > > Events are real time - not historic (like CDR's). Events are presented > as they happen (hold, ring, etc) - CDR's are usually presented AFTER the > call has finished so you miss things like hold-times etc. > > Remember, I am not saying that everyone should stop using the CDR's if > they feel comfortable with them - but I, for one, don't trust them for > building a stable billing platform or a real time stats package (which > more and more customers seem to want these days).
Pardon me, I have created realtime stats package that's based on CDR, you see new info immediately after call leg/event is over http://ftp.iq-labs.net/screenshots/cdr_view.jpg > If you start to change the CDR's to account for extra bits (using a > unique ID) then your 'scanning' actually increases as you will need to > tie up all the unique ID's to get one full call progress path. This is exactly how real-time billing works. If you somebody wants it, they put in custom ResetCDR(w) in their dialplan and have all kinds of events logged. Having Asterisk write all the timestamps/durations into database is just much simpler. > Please note, I am not trying to cause flame wars here - just stating > that I'd love an event based stream, that I can parse any way I see fit. > I know there's the AMI - but that is a 2-way, give-you-everything > solution. All I want is to know when a handset and/or trunk does > something (I don't care about SIP registrations etc). > > I guess we'll just have to wait and see what santa murf gives us all for > Christmas :). > I really want to contribute this discussion (and RFC), i'm reading it and i have lot of to say, but it's hard to find time for reading RFC (i'm in middle yet). So, i hope this will go on and allow me to respond with some objective comments. Regards, Atis -- Atis Lezdins, VoIP Project Manager / Developer, IQ Labs Inc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: atis.lezdins Cell Phone: +371 28806004 Cell Phone: +1 800 7300689 Work phone: +1 800 7502835 _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
