asterisk users - Apr 2010 - Limit Number Of Simultaneous Outbound SIP Calls

Is there a way to limit the number of simultaneous outbound SIP calls
made by Asterisk? We've tried using the 'Asterisk sip call-limit'
parameter but that doesn't seem to be working and one of our engineers
says that parameter has been depreciated.

Thanks,

Deric.Page at nisc.coop
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Here's one way - put your dial command into a macro that polls via a
"core
show channels" and only dials when the count is below X.   Even using a
"slow language" like PHP or PERL, an AGI call/return would not add as
much
time to the dial process as PSTN delay does.

Example:

 

-          exten => 100,1,noop(check before dialing)

-          exten => 100,n,AGI(howmanycalls.agi)

-          exten => 100,n,Gotoif(${ACTIVECALLS} < 10?dial:congest)

-          exten => 100,n(congest),play(congest)

-          exten => 100,n,hangup

-          exten => 100,n(dial),Dial(SIP/${EXTEN}

-          exten => 100,n,hangup

 

 

 

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Is there a way to limit the number of simultaneous outbound SIP calls made
by Asterisk? We've tried using the 'Asterisk sip call-limit'
parameter but
that doesn't seem to be working and one of our engineers says that parameter
has been depreciated.

Thanks,

Deric.Page at nisc.coop

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On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Deric Page wrote:
> Is there a way to limit the number of simultaneous outbound SIP calls 
> made by Asterisk? We've tried using the 'Asterisk sip
call-limit'
> parameter but that doesn't seem to be working and one of our engineers 
> says that parameter has been depreciated.
How about using GROUP() and GROUP_COUNT()?

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