asterisk users - Oct 2006 - Stopping putgoing calls after working hours

Dear All,

I  am trying to find a way to stop people who use phones after business
hours (a policy the company wants to implement), we have cisco 7940 and
7910 phones and sadly they don't have a phone lock password system (on
these ciscos it locks config menu changes but not the calls but the
cisco 7920 has this feauture).

So I was wondering is there a way to make this happen in asterisk??

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Thx
MAG


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Sure, in the context the phones live in, play around with the 
GotoIfTime() application:

Completely pseudocoded, will not work without research:

[internal]
priority 1 : gotoiftime(8:00-17:00|mon-fri?priority 3)
priority 2 : goto 10
priority 3 : dial(out_trunk, ${EXTEN})
priority 4 : hangup
priority 10: play a message "outgoing call restricted"
priority 11: hangup

The next move in your text adventure might be "Show Application 
GotoIfTime" from the CLI :)

Moj


Mohamed A. Gombolaty wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I  am trying to find a way to stop people who use phones after business 
> hours (a policy the company wants to implement), we have cisco 7940 and 
> 7910 phones and sadly they don't have a phone lock password system (on 
> these ciscos it locks config menu changes but not the calls but the 
> cisco 7920 has this feauture).
> 
> So I was wondering is there a way to make this happen in asterisk??
> 
> -- 
> Thx
> MAG
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> So I was wondering is there a way to make this happen in asterisk??
>
Depending on where you are located, you might want to allow emergency calls
to go through.  The bloodsuckers, I mean attorneys, here in the US would
have a field day if something were to happen to someone at a company that
did not allow emergency numbers to be dialed.

Translated: If something were to happen to someone outside of business hours
(in the US), and the phones did not allow emergency calls, it would cost
your company millions of dollars.
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On 2006-10-16 17:10:49 -0700, "Lacy Moore - Aspendora" 
<aspendora@gmail.com> said:
> 
> 
>> 
>> So I was wondering is there a way to make this happen in asterisk??
>> 
> Depending on where you are located, you might want to allow emergency calls
> to go through.  The bloodsuckers, I mean attorneys, here in the US would
> have a field day if something were to happen to someone at a company that
> did not allow emergency numbers to be dialed.
> 
> Translated: If something were to happen to someone outside of business
hours
> (in the US), and the phones did not allow emergency calls, it would cost
> your company millions of dollars.
As well it should.  Thanks for the very important reminder.

Dear Lacy

Thx Lacy for this important reminder we engineers do tend sometimes to
forget about all the law part, indeed while I was putting down the
implementation we do have exceptions we have a 24x7 call center and
ofcourse the emergency number.

Thx
MAG

Lacy Moore - Aspendora wrote:
>
>
>      So I was wondering is there a way to make this happen in
>      asterisk??
>
>  Depending on where you are located, you might want to allow emergency
> calls to go through.  The bloodsuckers, I mean attorneys, here in the
> US would have a field day if something were to happen to someone at a
> company that did not allow emergency numbers to be dialed. Translated:
> If something were to happen to someone outside of business hours (in
> the US), and the phones did not allow emergency calls, it would cost
> your company millions of dollars.
>
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> I  am trying to find a way to stop people who use phones after business 
> hours (a policy the company wants to implement), we have cisco 7940 and 
> 7910 phones and sadly they don't have a phone lock password system (on 
> these ciscos it locks config menu changes but not the calls but the 
> cisco 7920 has this feauture).
> 
> So I was wondering is there a way to make this happen in asterisk??
You need to better describe your objectives. If you really mean stop 
"all" calls (including emergency calls), that's easy.

If you mean stop all calls that "cleaning folks" initiate (usually not
employees), that just requires some extensions.conf changes to force the 
user to enter an "access code" before a call can be placed. (Just
don't
advertise that access code anyone that you don't want making calls.

If your talking about a fairly major security issue (such as your users 
call forwarding their phones to the brother-in-law after normal hours, 
you'll probably need to disable call forwarding on the phone itself.

If your talking about primarily managing expenses, use the CDR detail to 
generate a personalized report for each employee show this calls make 
between 5pm and 7am, and forward that report to each employee (and cc: 
the manager). That's usually enough to significantly cut those calls. If 
you don't have a policy relative to use of company assets (phones & 
PC's) for personal use, you might put one together and reference that 
policy in the morning CDR detail report. (I'm sure at lease some of 
those calls are likely legitimate calls, so cutting all calls is not 
likely a workable solution.