Brilliant! `log the call and busy out` is the thing I was missing. thank you so much
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Bryant Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote: > We designed our solution the following way. > > We have several land line numbers hooked to an asterisk testing server. > The testing server places one call every X seconds per line to a number we > want to test . We cycle through each number in our testing pool. Each > number on average is tested once every 30 min this can be adjusted by the > dial rate and the number of test lines in the outbound calling pool. When > a call comes from one of our test numbers our inbound dial plans log the > call and busy's out. So the test call is not answered and no call charge is > assessed per carrier. To verify that a test succeeded the testing server > checks the database after it gets a busy. By design if a call comes in it > is checked before any line counts are tested so this method never effects > the customers line counts. We also have a full audio/dtmf test that is > run once a day per number. This means that the first test call of the day > is actually answered and a DTMF and audio hand shake is done. Both ends > log the result in a database. > > We catch vendor issues with these methods and it allows us to open tickets > and resolve issues before a customer knows there might be an issue. Our > vendors hate the system as we tend to catch any hiccup they may be having > as well. Several of them are mistified how we can open tickets on issues > consistently before they know they have an issue. > Bryant > > > ------------------------------ > *From*: "Aurimas Skirgaila" <[email protected]> > *Sent*: Thursday, February 09, 2012 9:34 AM > *To*: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" < > [email protected]> > > *Subject*: [asterisk-users] checking if a phone number is UP > > > hi, > > We have a phone number from third party provider which is used for > inbound calls. How could I monitor if this phone number is reachable? > > the initial idea doesn't sound elegant: > - on my SIP server I set couple seconds of ringing before Answer(). > - the monitoring server calls to that phone number for few seconds, checks > if it "hears" the ringing and hangs up the call. > > ** > I use Nagios to check if my services are UP using check_sip, but it this > situation I'm more concerned about my DID provider than my server. It's > just like pinging a phone number. > > > > Thank you, > Aurimas > > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: > http://www.asterisk.org/hello > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > -- Mvh, Aurimas Skirgaila
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