asterisk users - Sep 2004 - zap barge restrictions

I have a couple of questions on the zapbarge:

1) zapbarge asks for a channel - how would a manager know what channel to
enter ? Is there any way of being able to enter an extension number instead
? I know that you can get the information from the manager interface, but I
wouldn't want to give my users access to this, or have to install / write a
system just to get an extension number from a channel

2) is it really all or nothing ? What I mean is that can you restrict a zap
barge to certain extensions only - I wouldn't want one of our operators to
see that the CEO is on the phone and simply barge in without any permission
... I am aware that you can authenticate using a password before you enter
the zapbarge command, but that doesn't fit our requirements.

Am I looking at some custom code / feature request ?

Many thanks.

Julian.

Try using Authenticate() to permit zapbarge access to others. With
Zapbarge you may also supply the channel number.  You can also implment the
secruity that you want by using the simple features of extensions.conf.
For example:

exten => 100,1,Zapbarge()
- OR -
exten => 100/5002,1,Zapbarge()

the second line will match when extension 100 is dialed but only from
extension 5002


Thank you,
Steve Maroney

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Asterisk wrote:
> I have a couple of questions on the zapbarge:
>
> 1) zapbarge asks for a channel - how would a manager know what channel to
> enter ? Is there any way of being able to enter an extension number instead
> ? I know that you can get the information from the manager interface, but I
> wouldn't want to give my users access to this, or have to install /
write a
> system just to get an extension number from a channel
>
> 2) is it really all or nothing ? What I mean is that can you restrict a zap
> barge to certain extensions only - I wouldn't want one of our operators
to
> see that the CEO is on the phone and simply barge in without any permission
> ... I am aware that you can authenticate using a password before you enter
> the zapbarge command, but that doesn't fit our requirements.
>
> Am I looking at some custom code / feature request ?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Julian.
>
>
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