asterisk users - Feb 2006 - problem with outgoing calls Unabletocreatechannel of type 'ZAP' (cause 34 - Circuit/channel congestion)

Nik,

I'm not sure that "NOP" is correct, but I'm in the states so
I'll to
defer to someone who knows E1/PRI.  When I run zttool I have "OK"
under
the alarms.  Is there a way you can call the telco and confirm the
settings?  Make sure that framing, coding and D channels are set up on
their end the same way you're set up.

As for asterisk, here's what I get when I stop asterisk, restart it from
the command line and then log back on to the command line:

[root@asterisk1 asterisk]# safe_asterisk
[root@asterisk1 asterisk]# asterisk -r
Asterisk 1.2.1, Copyright (C) 1999 - 2005 Digium.
Written by Mark Spencer <markster@digium.com>
=======================================================================Connected
to Asterisk 1.2.1 currently running on asterisk1 (pid = 4524)
NIX connection
Verbosity is at least 3
    -- B-channel 0/1 successfully restarted on span 1
    -- B-channel 0/2 successfully restarted on span 1
    -- B-channel 0/3 successfully restarted on span 1
    -- B-channel 0/4 successfully restarted on span 1
    -- B-channel 0/5 successfully restarted on span 1
    -- B-channel 0/6 successfully restarted on span 1
    -- B-channel 0/7 successfully restarted on span 1
    -- B-channel 0/8 successfully restarted on span 1
    -- B-channel 0/9 successfully restarted on span 1
    -- B-channel 0/10 successfully restarted on span 1
    -- B-channel 0/11 successfully restarted on span 1
    -- B-channel 0/12 successfully restarted on span 1
    -- B-channel 0/13 successfully restarted on span 1
    -- B-channel 0/14 successfully restarted on span 1
    -- B-channel 0/15 successfully restarted on span 1
    -- B-channel 0/16 successfully restarted on span 1
    -- B-channel 0/17 successfully restarted on span 1
    -- B-channel 0/18 successfully restarted on span 1
    -- B-channel 0/19 successfully restarted on span 1
    -- B-channel 0/20 successfully restarted on span 1
    -- B-channel 0/21 successfully restarted on span 1
    -- B-channel 0/22 successfully restarted on span 1
    -- B-channel 0/23 successfully restarted on span 1


Here are the relevant portions of my zaptel.conf and Zapata.conf files:
Zapata.conf:
[channels]
language=en
context=from-pstn
signalling=pri_cpe
switchtype=5ess
rxwink=300		
callerid=asreceived
usecallerid=yes
hidecallerid=no
callwaiting=yes
usecallingpres=yes
callwaitingcallerid=yes
threewaycalling=yes
transfer=yes
cancallforward=yes
callreturn=yes
echocancel=yes
echocancelwhenbridged=yes
echotraining=400
rxgain=0.0
txgain=0.0
group=0
callgroup=1
pickupgroup=1
immediate=no
channel => 1-23


Zaptel.conf:

span=1,1,0,esf,b8zs # My PRI line
bchan=1-23
dchan=24
# Global data
loadzone	= us
defaultzone	= us


HtH!
-MC

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of nik600
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 8:21 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] problem with outgoing calls
Unabletocreatechannel of type 'ZAP' (cause 34 - Circuit/channel
congestion)

On 2/13/06, nik600 <nik600@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/13/06, Michael Collins <mcollins@fcnetwork.biz> wrote:
> > When Asterisk first starts up, it will attempt to "bring up"
the B
> > channels on any PRI circuits.  If you are using A@H then you can log
on
> > to the Asterisk CLI (asterisk -r) and then do "stop now" to
stop
> > asterisk.  Start up Asterisk again by typing asterisk -cvvv at the
Linux
> > command line.  You should see a bunch of messages on the terminal
and
> > then you'll get the Asterisk CLI prompt.  A few moments later you
should
> > see some more messages saying something like "B channel 1/1
successfully
> > started on span 0" and then "B channel 1/2 successfully
started..."
I
> > don't have my system active at the moment but when I do I'll
email
you a
> > screen capture of the messages I see on my PRI.
> >
>
> i get:
> *CLI>   == Primary D-Channel on span 1 up
>
> at the moment i've got only one span connected...il the message
correct?
>
Description                              Alarms     IRQ        bpviol 
   CRC4
T2XXP (PCI) Card 0 Span 1                NOP        0          0      
   0
T2XXP (PCI) Card 0 Span 2                RED/NOP    0          0      
   0
ZTDUMMY/1 1                              UNCONFIGUR 0          0
0
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On 2/14/06, Michael Collins <mcollins@fcnetwork.biz>
wrote:
> Nik,
>
> I'm not sure that "NOP" is correct, but I'm in the states
so I'll to
> defer to someone who knows E1/PRI.  When I run zttool I have "OK"
under
> the alarms.  Is there a way you can call the telco and confirm the
> settings?  Make sure that framing, coding and D channels are set up on
> their end the same way you're set up.
>
ok, with your configuration incoming calls works, but:

- i have eco (maybe i have to increase/decrease echotraining value?)
- outgoing calls doesn't works (

    -- Executing Dial("SIP/102-cc9b", "ZAP/g0/mynumber") in
new stack
  == Everyone is busy/congested at this time (1:0/1/0)
    -- Executing Goto("SIP/102-cc9b", "s-CONGESTION|1") in
new stack
    -- Goto (macro-dialout-trunk,s-CONGESTION,1)
    -- Executing NoOp("SIP/102-cc9b", "Dial failed due to
CONGESTION")
in new stack
    -- Executing Macro("SIP/102-cc9b", "outisbusy") in new
stack
    -- Executing Playback("SIP/102-cc9b",
"all-circuits-busy-now") in new stack

)
it seems that i don't have any channel for outbound
- ALARM is set on NOP

i've got a TE205P and my zaptel.conf is:

span=1,0,0,ccs,hdb3,crc4,yellow
span=2,0,0,ccs,hdb3,crc4,yellow

bchan = 1-15, 17-31
dchan = 16
bchan = 32-46,48-62
dchan = 47

loadzone        = it
defaultzone     = it