asterisk users - Mar 2009 - log to cdr each dialpan action, not only one record for each call

Hi to all.

What can i do if a customer needs to log in the CDR all the dialpan
actions related to a call?
I mean, not only the lastapp e the lastdata but all the dialpan actions!

I know that the actual CDR system store one record for each call (and
for billing purposes this can be correct) but in some cases the
approach needed is something similar to the queue_log.

I know that exists ResetCDR and ForkCDR but they don't do what i need,
expecially because they fill-in lastdata and lastapp with "ResetCDR"

So, what can i do?

Is it better to do some customization to generate a CDR event on each
dialplan step or is better to parse the logfile and extract the
information needed?

I'm using Asterisk 1.4.23.1

TIA

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Subject: [asterisk-users] log to cdr each dialpan action,not only one record
for each call

Hi to all.

What can i do if a customer needs to log in the CDR all the dialpan
actions related to a call?
I mean, not only the lastapp e the lastdata but all the dialpan actions!

I know that the actual CDR system store one record for each call (and
for billing purposes this can be correct) but in some cases the
approach needed is something similar to the queue_log.

I know that exists ResetCDR and ForkCDR but they don't do what i need,
expecially because they fill-in lastdata and lastapp with "ResetCDR"

So, what can i do?

Is it better to do some customization to generate a CDR event on each
dialplan step or is better to parse the logfile and extract the
information needed?

I'm using Asterisk 1.4.23.1

TIA

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nik600
http://www.kumbe.it

I'd probably go for parsing the logfile and extracting what you want.  Are
you using a SQL log or the flat Master.csv as your logfile?

Regards,
Danny Nicholas

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On 13/03/2009 8:02 a.m., nik600 wrote:
> Hi to all.
>
> What can i do if a customer needs to log in the CDR all the dialpan
> actions related to a call?
> I mean, not only the lastapp e the lastdata but all the dialpan actions!
>
> I know that the actual CDR system store one record for each call (and
> for billing purposes this can be correct) but in some cases the
> approach needed is something similar to the queue_log.
>
> I know that exists ResetCDR and ForkCDR but they don't do what i need,
> expecially because they fill-in lastdata and lastapp with
"ResetCDR"
>
> So, what can i do?
Use the Asterisk Manager with UserEvent?

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nik600 wrote:
> Hi to all.
>
> What can i do if a customer needs to log in the CDR all the dialpan
> actions related to a call?
> I mean, not only the lastapp e the lastdata but all the dialpan actions!
>
> I know that the actual CDR system store one record for each call (and
> for billing purposes this can be correct) but in some cases the
> approach needed is something similar to the queue_log.
>
> I know that exists ResetCDR and ForkCDR but they don't do what i need,
> expecially because they fill-in lastdata and lastapp with
"ResetCDR"
>
> So, what can i do?
>
> Is it better to do some customization to generate a CDR event on each
> dialplan step or is better to parse the logfile and extract the
> information needed?
>
> I'm using Asterisk 1.4.23.1
>   
 We generated a patch for a client probably about a year ago against the 
1.4 branch that logged apps for each call, params, and exit status codes 
into a separate file. Like others have said, it generates a tremendous 
amount of data and probably does impact performance on very high load 
servers, but it was very useful to determine EXACTLY what happened with 
a given call.

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> http://www.btwtech.com/
>
>
>

I'm only half joking: what about parsing the "full" log looking
for command
inviocations and channel IDs? this would be completely transparent, albeit
insane :)

l.

2009/3/12 nik600 <nik600 at gmail.com>
> Hi to all.
>
> What can i do if a customer needs to log in the CDR all the dialpan
> actions related to a call?
> I mean, not only the lastapp e the lastdata but all the dialpan actions!
>
> I know that the actual CDR system store one record for each call (and
> for billing purposes this can be correct) but in some cases the
> approach needed is something similar to the queue_log.
>
> I know that exists ResetCDR and ForkCDR but they don't do what i need,
> expecially because they fill-in lastdata and lastapp with
"ResetCDR"
>
> So, what can i do?
>
> Is it better to do some customization to generate a CDR event on each
> dialplan step or is better to parse the logfile and extract the
> information needed?
>
> I'm using Asterisk 1.4.23.1
>
> TIA
>
> --
> /*************/
> nik600
> http://www.kumbe.it
>
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