asterisk users - Oct 2006 - "Cheapest" way to determine channels in a group from outside asterisk?

I need to determine the number of active calls in a group from outside 
of Asterisk. Currently I poll the manager API and parse the channel 
status list but this is becoming too expensive on CPU.

What are my options? What is considered "standard practice" ? Update a
DB field? Poll the manager api? Use an asterisk -rv 'some command' call?

why not using a "zap show" command and parse the results externally?
l.



On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:12:46 +0200, Nick Adams <gmane@narkov.com> wrote:
> I need to determine the number of active calls in a group from outside  
> of Asterisk. Currently I poll the manager API and parse the channel  
> status list but this is becoming too expensive on CPU.
>
> What are my options? What is considered "standard practice" ?
Update a
> DB field? Poll the manager api? Use an asterisk -rv 'some command'
call?
>

-- 
Loway Research - Home of QueueMetrics
http://queuemetrics.loway.it

On 26 Oct 2006, at 12:12, Nick Adams wrote:
> I need to determine the number of active calls in a group from  
> outside of Asterisk. Currently I poll the manager API and parse the  
> channel status list but this is becoming too expensive on CPU.
>
> What are my options? What is considered "standard practice" ?  
> Update a DB field? Poll the manager api? Use an asterisk -rv 'some  
> command' call?
That depends on your configuration. If you already use SNMP in your  
organisation, you
might want to use that.

If you are/have a java coder, there is some support for the asterisk  
MIB in the free-ware
from snmp.westhawk.co.uk

(Disclaimer - I wrote large chunks of it so I'm biased :-) )


Tim Panton

www.mexuar.com