asterisk users - Mar 2010 - Priority based softhangup

Hi,

Is it possible to softhangup a channel based on priority. I mean I
want to put some calls in higher priority lets say 100. If all
channels are busy and somebody wants to dial an extension with
priority higher than 100. How can softhangup drop a line which has
priority less than 100? I will appreciate your valuable help.

Thanks

Smir

On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, mir shahnawaz wrote:
> Is it possible to softhangup a channel based on priority. I mean I want 
> to put some calls in higher priority lets say 100. If all channels are 
> busy and somebody wants to dial an extension with priority higher than 
> 100. How can softhangup drop a line which has priority less than 100? I 
> will appreciate your valuable help.
In Asterisk, a "priority" is the "step number" in a
dialplan. For example:

 	exten = *,5,	verbose(1,foo)

"5" is the priority.

It sounds like you want to have an "executive" class that can step on
an
"underling's" call. Maybe setting a global channel variable or
tracking
resource usage in a database would work.

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Thanks Steve and Danny for your help.

S Mir

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Steve Edwards
<asterisk.org at sedwards.com> wrote:
> Un-top-posting...
>
>> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of mir
>> shahnawaz
>>
>> Can you please give me idea about Softhang.agi
>
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Danny Nicholas wrote:
>
>> Simple code
>> In PERL -
>> -- agi header stuff --
>> My ($pri, $callno) = @ARGV;
>> -- read database to get priority of lowest active call, return $lowpri,
>> $lowid --
>> if ($pri > $lowpri) {
>> ? print STDOUT "exec softhangup $lowid\n";
>> ? -- AMI dial $callno --
>> ? }
>> Else {
>> ? Print STDOUT "exec BACKGROUND congested message\n";
>> ? }
>>
>> You can find real examples on voip-info.org.
>
> mir, please keep in mind the above is meant to "give you an
idea," not
> intended as literal code.
>
> You will save yourself a lot of frustration if you use an existing AGI
> "library" for your chosen language*. While conceptually simple,
nobody
> gets the AGI protocol right the first time.
>
> *) I write most of my AGIs in C because it is the language I know best and
> you can execute hundreds of AGIs written in C in the time it takes to load
> the Perl or PHP interpreter and parse your script.
>
> --
> Thanks in advance,
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