asterisk users - May 2011 - AMI perl daemon

Would anybody know how to run a perl script as a daemon that would stay
connected to asterisk via AMI?
Right now, my AMI script connects to the manager interface, originates a
call, disconnects. The script will be run maybe 20+ per minute. It would
make more sense to me to have the script run as a daemon and have
a persistent connection to asterisk's AMI. Thank you in advance for your
input.
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On 05/16/2011 08:14 AM, vip killa wrote:
> Would anybody know how to run a perl script as a daemon that would stay
> connected to asterisk via AMI?
> Right now, my AMI script connects to the manager interface, originates a
> call, disconnects. The script will be run maybe 20+ per minute. It would
> make more sense to me to have the script run as a daemon and have
> a persistent connection to asterisk's AMI. Thank you in advance for
your
> input.
Well, you would just write the Perl script in such a way as to not close 
the connection :-), but continue reading from the socket, ideally in an 
asynchronous manner.

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Alex is pointing you in the right direction. You should want a single
daemon running that then gets notified by the voicemail script, either
through a FIFO, a socket, or by dropping a file in a watched
directory.

If you are going to write a daemon, I would suggest looking at :

http://search.cpan.org/~greenbean/Asterisk-AMI-v0.2.5/

It has integration with event loops and should work well for what you
are doing. It also has some features for detecting disconnects and
timeouts.

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Alex Balashov
<abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
> On 05/16/2011 08:33 AM, vip killa wrote:
>
>> Thank you, that makes sense but actually I would be invoking the script
>> using the "externnotify" in voicemail.conf, similar to
>> "externnotify = /var/lib/asterisk/scripts/notify.pl
<http://notify.pl>"
>> I assume "externnotify" cannot call the FastAGI
server...correct?
>
> That is correct. ?But you can call a script that notifies the daemon
through
> a FIFO or UNIX domain socket, if local, or network socket if remote.
>
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> Alex Balashov - Principal
> Evariste Systems LLC
> 260 Peachtree Street NW
> Suite 2200
> Atlanta, GA 30303
> Tel: +1-678-954-0670
> Fax: +1-404-961-1892
> Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/
>
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