asterisk users - Apr 2006 - CDRs and billing

Hello
I configured Asterisk to put CDRs in the database like it was explained in:
  www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cdr+pgsql

What I want to know is how do the billing solutions (like 
Asterisk2Billing) work with Asterisk.

The billing system just use the information that Asterisk puts in the 
CDR table?
Or they connect directly to Asterisk?
Or is Asterisk that has, before the Dial command, to put the information 
on the Asterisk2Billing tables?

Thanks
Joao Pereira

Joao Pereira wrote:
> Hello
> I configured Asterisk to put CDRs in the database like it was 
> explained in:
>  www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+cdr+pgsql
>
> What I want to know is how do the billing solutions (like 
> Asterisk2Billing) work with Asterisk.
>
> The billing system just use the information that Asterisk puts in the 
> CDR table?
> Or they connect directly to Asterisk?
> Or is Asterisk that has, before the Dial command, to put the 
> information on the Asterisk2Billing tables?
>
Asterisk2Billing requires you route the calls to its AGI, and it keeps 
its own database, so what you did is of no use for billing. I haven't 
found an application that bills from the CDRs, everything I found wanted 
to create the database entries. I think ASTPP can read your CDR, though.

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